Sentry Prime Metal A (PME) AI Stock Analysis

• Market Cap: N/A
• Dividend Yield: 3.7%
• Average Volume (3M): 13.58K
• Price to Earnings (P/E): 0.9
• Beta (1Y): 1.53
• Revenue Growth: N/A
• EPS Growth: N/A
• Country: CA
• Employees: N/A
• Sector: General
• Sector Strength: N/A
• Industry: Gold
• EPS (TTM): 0.82
• Shares Outstanding: 5,911,033
• 10 Day Avg. Volume: 16,943
• 30 Day Avg. Volume: 13,578
• PEG Ratio: >-0.01
• Price to Book (P/B): 1.00
• Price to Sales (P/S): 280.62
• P/FCF Ratio: -78.63
• Enterprise Value/Market Cap: N/A
• Enterprise Value/Revenue: N/A
• Enterprise Value/Gross Profit: N/A
• Enterprise Value/Ebitda: N/A
• 1Y Price Target: N/A
• Price Target Upside: N/A
• Rating Consensus: N/A
• Number of Analyst Covering: 0
• EPS Forecast (FY): N/A
• Revenue Forecast (FY): N/A

• Rating: 66 Neutral
• Price Target: C$6.00 ▲(27.93% Upside)
• Action: N/A Date: 01/04/26
• Date: Action: N/A 01/04/26

The score is held back primarily by uneven financial performance, including sharply reduced revenue and weak/negative cash flow despite improved 2024 profitability. Technicals are supportive with a strong multi-timeframe uptrend and positive momentum, while valuation looks compelling due to a low P/E and solid dividend yield.

Positive Factors

Zero Debt / Strong Balance Sheet

Zero reported debt and a sizeable equity base materially reduce solvency and refinancing risk over the medium term. This structural strength gives management optionality to fund operations, weather cyclical gold-price swings, or make opportunistic investments without raising costly debt.

Improved 2024 Profitability

Moving to strong reported profitability in 2024 signals the company can generate earnings when conditions align. If underlying drivers are sustained, higher margins improve internal cash generation capacity and increase flexibility for reinvestment, dividends, or balance-sheet strengthening.

Sizable Equity Base

A large equity buffer relative to assets reduces downside risk and supports capital allocation without external financing. Over months this stability underpins strategic choices like capital expenditures or dividend maintenance despite volatile operating results in the gold sector.

Negative Factors

Severe Revenue Decline

A dramatic, structural decline in revenue undermines scale economics and casts doubt on the core business model's sustainability. Persistently tiny top-line reduces margin resilience, limits reinvestment capacity, and makes profitable years more likely to be driven by non-recurring items.

Weak / Inconsistent Cash Generation

Repeated negative operating and free cash flow across recent years indicates earnings may not convert to cash reliably. This raises funding risk for capex, dividends, or working capital and could force equity issuance or asset sales if the pattern persists for several quarters.

Negative Gross Profit & Earnings Quality Risk

A negative gross profit in 2024 despite reported net gain suggests non-operating items are materially affecting results. This weakens confidence in sustainable earnings, increasing the risk that reported profitability is transient and may not support long-term cash generation or dividends.

Sentry Prime Metal A Business Overview & Revenue Model

Company Description

Sentry Select Primary Metals Corp. is an open ended equity mutual fund launched and managed by CI Investments Inc. The fund invests in the public equity markets across the globe. It invests in the stocks of companies engaged in the production and/or exploration of metal and minerals. The fund invests in stocks of companies across diversified market capitalizations. It invests in value stocks of companies. It employs fundamental analysis, with top-down and bottom-up stock picking approach, focusing on factors like profitability, liquidity, operating and administrative costs, cash flow and management, to create its portfolio. The fund benchmarks the performance of its portfolio against the S&P/TSX Composite Index and a composite benchmark comprising of 50% S&P/TSX Diversified Mining Index and 50% S&P/TSX Global Gold Index. Sentry Select Primary Metals Corp. was formed on April 23, 2007 and is domiciled in Canada.

How the Company Makes Money

Sentry Prime Metal A Financial Statement Overview

Summary

Balance sheet strength (zero debt and solid equity base) is a major positive, but operating performance is unstable: revenue has collapsed over time, 2024 gross profit was negative, and cash generation was negative in 2024. Despite improved 2024 net profitability, earnings quality/consistency looks weak.

Income Statement

Profitability has been highly volatile. After large losses in 2021–2022, the company moved to roughly breakeven in 2023 and then reported strong profitability in 2024 (net margin ~24% and positive operating profit). However, revenue has collapsed over time (from 5.49M in 2020 to 0.058M in 2024), and 2024 gross profit turned negative, highlighting weak operating consistency and potential one-off/other-income-driven earnings.

Balance Sheet

The balance sheet is a clear strength: the company reports zero debt across all periods, with a sizable equity base relative to assets. Equity has drifted down since 2020, but leverage risk remains low and reported returns on equity improved materially in 2024 versus the loss years, supporting overall financial flexibility.

Cash Flow

Cash generation is inconsistent and recently weak. Operating and free cash flow were negative in 2024 (and also negative in 2020–2022 and 2021), following a strong positive year in 2023. This pattern suggests earnings quality/convertibility is uneven and funding needs could rise if negative cash flow persists.

Breakdown	TTM	Dec 2024	Dec 2023	Dec 2022	Dec 2021	Dec 2020
Income Statement
Total Revenue	7.77M	58.00K	831.00K	917.00K	4.64M	5.49M
Gross Profit	7.60M	-285.00K	550.00K	471.00K	4.02M	4.77M
EBITDA	1.62M	1.41M	0.00	-49.00K	-26.00K	-12.00K
Net Income	7.01M	1.42M	-9.00K	-2.75M	-398.00K	14.31M
Balance Sheet
Total Assets	18.55M	16.41M	18.93M	21.21M	28.52M	37.05M
Cash, Cash Equivalents and Short-Term Investments	18.52M	16.38M	18.91M	21.20M	28.45M	37.02M
Total Debt	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Total Liabilities	179.00K	198.00K	284.00K	319.00K	265.00K	290.00K
Stockholders Equity	18.38M	16.21M	18.64M	20.89M	28.26M	36.76M
Cash Flow
Free Cash Flow	-2.25M	-207.00K	2.22M	-153.00K	-353.00K	-466.00K
Operating Cash Flow	-2.25M	-207.00K	2.22M	-153.00K	-353.00K	-466.00K
Investing Cash Flow	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Financing Cash Flow	-3.84M	-3.88M	-2.24M	-4.64M	-8.13M	-6.87M

Sentry Prime Metal A Peers Comparison

Name	Overall Rating	Market Cap	P/E Ratio	ROE	Dividend Yield	Revenue Growth	EPS Growth
PME	66 Neutral	―	0.86	41.75%	3.70%	―	―
Sector *	55 Neutral	$6.65B	3.83	-15.92%	6.20%	10.91%	7.18%
ETI	43 Neutral	C$1.70M	-3.79	31.56%	―	―	―
KLM	31 Underperform	C$456.21K	-0.29	-303.19%	―	―	13.78%