# Resolute Mining (RSG.AU)

Canonical: https://gigainvestors.com/s/RSG.AU

Analysis as of: 2026-10-16T07:42:01.832Z. Financial observations: FY2015–FY2025.

Listing currency: AUD. Reporting currency: USD.

## Verdict

Not a wonderful business

Quality tests for Buy: not passed (profit record: fail; earnings resilience is evidence only). Published buy qualification: no.

Share price: AUD 1.08 per share; close as of 2026-10-15.

## Checklist

### understandable: fail

- 4 revenue declines in the last 10 years (informational)

- more than 2 net loss years

- operating margin variation exceeds 0.35

- Financial history: 10 years

- Years with declining revenue: 4

- Years with a net loss: 5

- Operating margin variation: 1.57×

Chart: Operating margin; fiscal year observations.

- FY2016: 0.31×

- FY2017: 0.08×

- FY2018: -0.08×

- FY2019: -0.06×

- FY2020: 0.00×

- FY2021: -0.06×

- FY2022: 0.08×

- FY2023: 0.16×

- FY2024: 0.14×

- FY2025: 0.36×

### moat: fail

- ROIC median below threshold

- ROIC worst years below threshold (more than 1 bad year allowed)

- ROIC, median of available years: 6.0%

- ROIC, second-lowest year: -3.4%

- Typical minus recent gross margin: -22.7 pp

- Typical gross margin (annual median): 31.1%

- Recent gross margin (lower of latest and 3-year median): 53.8%

- Years with nonpositive capital: 0

- Capital spending / revenue: 15.1%

- ROIC including acquisitions, ten-year median: -2.1%

Chart: ROIC excluding acquisitions; fiscal year observations.

- FY2016: 36.9%

- FY2017: 5.2%

- FY2018: -3.4%

- FY2019: -2.4%

- FY2020: 0.0%

- FY2021: -3.5%

- FY2022: 6.9%

- FY2023: 15.6%

- FY2024: 14.0%

- FY2025: 26.2%

### economics: fail

- owner earnings cash conversion below threshold

- incremental invested capital return below threshold

- Cash conversion uses consolidated totals: No

- Owner earnings, five-year total: -$1.7M

- Net income, five-year total: -$107M

- Return on incremental invested capital: 8.0%

- Working capital / revenue, annual change: -3.4 pp

- Working capital / revenue, change between three-year averages: -22.1 pp

- Working capital / revenue, final three-year average: 18.0%

Chart: Owner earnings · five years; fiscal year observations.

- FY2021: -$257M

- FY2022: -$19M

- FY2023: $153M

- FY2024: -$5.8M

- FY2025: $127M

### management: fail

- Historical market-dollar context (not the management verdict): 2016 to 2025 (9 years)

- buybacks unrelated to price (informational)

- ROIC first 3 years vs last 3 years: 5.2% vs 15.6%

- Per-share earnings: 0.15 to 0.06 (three-year endpoint medians)

- per-share value declined or ends nonpositive

- five-year and ten-year diluted share growth both above threshold

- Management verdict uses per-share economic progress: Yes

- Ordinary dilution, 10-year annual growth: 10.0%

- Ordinary dilution, 5-year annual growth: 11.8%

- Market cap gain: $1.2B

- Cumulative retained earnings: -$235M

- Diluted shares, 10-year annual growth: 10.0%

- Diluted shares, 5-year annual growth: 11.8%

- $1 test, starting fiscal year: FY2016

- $1 test, ending fiscal year: FY2025

- Per-share value growth: -11.0%

- Per-share value change: -$0.09

- Per-share value, starting three-year median: $0.15

- Per-share value, ending three-year median: $0.06

- Buybacks concentrated in cheaper years (correlation): -0.40

- Average buyback yield: 0.8%

- Buyback history: 4 years

- Debt-funded buybacks: No

- Acquisition spending: $575M

- Cumulative net income, 10 years: $10M

- ROIC, first three-year median: 5.2%

- ROIC, last three-year median: 15.6%

Chart: Earnings per share; fiscal year observations.

- FY2016: $0.16

- FY2017: $0.06

- FY2018: -$0.01

- FY2019: -$0.09

- FY2020: $0.01

- FY2021: -$0.26

- FY2022: -$0.03

- FY2023: $0.07

- FY2024: -$0.01

- FY2025: $0.06

### accounting: pass

- latest-year receivables to sales index (DSRI) exceeds 1.465

- Sloan accruals: -9.0%

- Receivables to sales index (DSRI): 2.09×

- Restructuring years, last five: 0

- Stock compensation / operating cash flow: 0.0%

- Earnings backed by cash: Yes

- Operating cash / earnings: 1.82×

- Accounting red flags: 1

- Goodwill and intangibles / equity: 0.00×

Chart: Sloan accruals; fiscal year observations.

- FY2016: -7.8%

- FY2017: 4.0%

- FY2018: -3.6%

- FY2019: -11.5%

- FY2020: -1.9%

- FY2021: -57.5%

- FY2022: -14.4%

- FY2023: 2.7%

- FY2024: -17.5%

- FY2025: -9.0%

## Holders

## Price story

Down 27% since Feb 2026 · sales +8.1%

Story as of 2026-10-16T10:00:12.200Z; price observation 2026-10-15.

### Sales · FY2024–2025

sales +8.1%; source https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/; observed 2026-10-16.

- FY2016: $541M 

- FY2017: $327M 

- FY2018: $446M 

- FY2019: $460M 

- FY2020: $603M 

- FY2021: $549M 

- FY2022: $651M 

- FY2023: $631M 

- FY2024: $801M 

- FY2025: $866M 

### Gross margin · FY2025

gross margin 58.6%; source https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/; observed 2026-10-16.

- FY2016: 30.9% 

- FY2017: 28.9% 

- FY2018: 9.2% 

- FY2019: 9.2% 

- FY2020: 9.5% 

- FY2021: 32.8% 

- FY2022: 31.3% 

- FY2023: 34.5% 

- FY2024: 53.8% 

- FY2025: 58.6% 

## Owner memo

Memo as of 2026-10-16T08:06:05.509Z.

### How it makes money

Annual sales are USD 865.6 million.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/api/fundamentals/RSM.STU.json#2025-12-31 (filed 2026-10-16T07:42:01.832Z); FY2025: revenue 865600000; grossProfit 506900000; margin = grossProfit / revenue.

### Why customers stay

Margins ranged from 34.5% to 58.6% during 2023–25; it earns 6% on its capital.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/api/fundamentals/RSM.STU.json#2023-12-31 (filed 2026-10-16T07:42:01.832Z); FY2023: grossProfit / revenue = 34.5%.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/api/fundamentals/RSM.STU.json#2024-12-31 (filed 2026-10-16T07:42:01.832Z); FY2024: grossProfit / revenue = 53.8%.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/api/fundamentals/RSM.STU.json#2025-12-31 (filed 2026-10-16T07:42:01.832Z); FY2025: grossProfit / revenue = 58.6%.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-10-16T07:42:01.832Z); 10-year return on capital observations [[2016,0.36866850043199023],[2017,0.05169948603053033],[2018,-0.034366568478540735],[2019,-0.023761628700446673],[2020,0.00003688420879637022],[2021,-0.03510774777854196],[2022,0.06863861303929057],[2023,0.1555286131307592],[2024,0.13956856150626631],[2025,0.2617136517880449]]; median 0.06016904953491045. ROIC follows the displayed moat series; financial companies use return on tangible equity.

### Where the cash goes

Reinvests 28.8% of cash earnings; earns 8% on new investment.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-10-16T07:42:01.832Z); FY2016: growth capex 0; upkeep 92011957; owner earnings 65351043. Growth capex / owner earnings = 0.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/api/fundamentals/RSM.STU.json#2020-12-31 (filed 2026-10-16T07:42:01.832Z); FY2020: growth capex 88253000; upkeep 2725000; owner earnings 11219600. Growth capex / owner earnings = 7.865966701130165.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/api/fundamentals/RSM.STU.json#2023-12-31 (filed 2026-10-16T07:42:01.832Z); FY2023: growth capex 0; upkeep 71797000; cash acquisitions 0; owner earnings 152521200. Growth capex plus acquisitions / owner earnings = 0.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/api/fundamentals/RSM.STU.json#2025-12-31 (filed 2026-10-16T07:42:01.832Z); FY2025: growth capex 9300000; upkeep 120700000; cash acquisitions 27400000; owner earnings 127420000. Growth capex plus acquisitions / owner earnings = 0.28802385810704756.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-10-16T07:42:01.832Z); Incremental return on capital 0.0797235914622857, from the economics test's unchanged annual inputs.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-10-16T07:42:01.832Z); Dividend observations: [[2016,11202000],[2017,10893998],[2018,15155000],[2019,0],[2020,0],[2021,5858000],[2022,5089000],[2023,0],[2024,6942000],[2025,12000000]]. Zero only counted when supported by a complete cash-flow statement.

### Are managers owners

Insiders own 13.4% of the company.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-10-16); RSG.AU SharesStats.PercentInsiders = 13.421 percentage points; cache date 2026-10-16.

### What the price says

The price is 1.9 times annual sales.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-10-16T07:42:01.832Z); Closing price 1.08 AUD; reporting-to-trading FX 1.4454626926079037; FY2025 annual sales per share 0.4030057971350331; price multiple 1.8539822635594772. FY2025 cash earnings/share 0.05932416667161035. Closing-price date 2026-10-15.

## Monthly share-price history (AUD per share)

- 2016-10: AUD 1.35 per share

- 2016-11: AUD 1.11 per share

- 2016-12: AUD 1.16 per share

- 2017-01: AUD 1.30 per share

- 2017-02: AUD 1.44 per share

- 2017-03: AUD 1.16 per share

- 2017-04: AUD 1.09 per share

- 2017-05: AUD 1.04 per share

- 2017-06: AUD 1.07 per share

- 2017-07: AUD 0.96 per share

- 2017-08: AUD 1.08 per share

- 2017-09: AUD 0.92 per share

- 2017-10: AUD 0.92 per share

- 2017-11: AUD 0.91 per share

- 2017-12: AUD 1.02 per share

- 2018-01: AUD 1.05 per share

- 2018-02: AUD 1.00 per share

- 2018-03: AUD 1.12 per share

- 2018-04: AUD 1.03 per share

- 2018-05: AUD 1.11 per share

- 2018-06: AUD 1.14 per share

- 2018-07: AUD 1.14 per share

- 2018-08: AUD 1.13 per share

- 2018-09: AUD 0.97 per share

- 2018-10: AUD 0.93 per share

- 2018-11: AUD 0.85 per share

- 2018-12: AUD 1.03 per share

- 2019-01: AUD 1.01 per share

- 2019-02: AUD 0.99 per share

- 2019-03: AUD 1.08 per share

- 2019-04: AUD 1.01 per share

- 2019-05: AUD 1.00 per share

- 2019-06: AUD 1.20 per share

- 2019-07: AUD 1.59 per share

- 2019-08: AUD 1.50 per share

- 2019-09: AUD 1.27 per share

- 2019-10: AUD 1.08 per share

- 2019-11: AUD 1.03 per share

- 2019-12: AUD 1.13 per share

- 2020-01: AUD 1.03 per share

- 2020-02: AUD 0.91 per share

- 2020-03: AUD 0.73 per share

- 2020-04: AUD 0.85 per share

- 2020-05: AUD 1.02 per share

- 2020-06: AUD 1.02 per share

- 2020-07: AUD 1.16 per share

- 2020-08: AUD 0.99 per share

- 2020-09: AUD 0.83 per share

- 2020-10: AUD 0.72 per share

- 2020-11: AUD 0.68 per share

- 2020-12: AUD 0.71 per share

- 2021-01: AUD 0.62 per share

- 2021-02: AUD 0.58 per share

- 2021-03: AUD 0.39 per share

- 2021-04: AUD 0.43 per share

- 2021-05: AUD 0.55 per share

- 2021-06: AUD 0.45 per share

- 2021-07: AUD 0.48 per share

- 2021-08: AUD 0.42 per share

- 2021-09: AUD 0.37 per share

- 2021-10: AUD 0.38 per share

- 2021-11: AUD 0.32 per share

- 2021-12: AUD 0.35 per share

- 2022-01: AUD 0.26 per share

- 2022-02: AUD 0.23 per share

- 2022-03: AUD 0.30 per share

- 2022-04: AUD 0.31 per share

- 2022-05: AUD 0.25 per share

- 2022-06: AUD 0.20 per share

- 2022-07: AUD 0.25 per share

- 2022-08: AUD 0.26 per share

- 2022-09: AUD 0.19 per share

- 2022-10: AUD 0.18 per share

- 2022-11: AUD 0.16 per share

- 2022-12: AUD 0.20 per share

- 2023-01: AUD 0.28 per share

- 2023-02: AUD 0.25 per share

- 2023-03: AUD 0.42 per share

- 2023-04: AUD 0.48 per share

- 2023-05: AUD 0.48 per share

- 2023-06: AUD 0.39 per share

- 2023-07: AUD 0.36 per share

- 2023-08: AUD 0.37 per share

- 2023-09: AUD 0.35 per share

- 2023-10: AUD 0.36 per share

- 2023-11: AUD 0.44 per share

- 2023-12: AUD 0.45 per share

- 2024-01: AUD 0.43 per share

- 2024-02: AUD 0.34 per share

- 2024-03: AUD 0.43 per share

- 2024-04: AUD 0.43 per share

- 2024-05: AUD 0.56 per share

- 2024-06: AUD 0.52 per share

- 2024-07: AUD 0.65 per share

- 2024-08: AUD 0.68 per share

- 2024-09: AUD 0.74 per share

- 2024-10: AUD 0.82 per share

- 2024-11: AUD 0.44 per share

- 2024-12: AUD 0.40 per share

- 2025-01: AUD 0.42 per share

- 2025-02: AUD 0.37 per share

- 2025-03: AUD 0.47 per share

- 2025-04: AUD 0.51 per share

- 2025-05: AUD 0.63 per share

- 2025-06: AUD 0.61 per share

- 2025-07: AUD 0.62 per share

- 2025-08: AUD 0.65 per share

- 2025-09: AUD 1.03 per share

- 2025-10: AUD 0.96 per share

- 2025-11: AUD 1.13 per share

- 2025-12: AUD 1.23 per share

- 2026-01: AUD 1.36 per share

- 2026-02: AUD 1.49 per share

- 2026-03: AUD 1.40 per share

- 2026-04: AUD 1.16 per share

- 2026-05: AUD 1.29 per share

- 2026-06: AUD 0.95 per share

- 2026-07: AUD 0.93 per share

- 2026-08: AUD 1.37 per share

- 2026-09: AUD 1.16 per share

- 2026-10: AUD 1.11 per share

## Annual estimated value (AUD per share)

Historical values use today's bond yield for every fiscal year

Historical values use today's FX rate into trading currency for every fiscal year

Historical values use current restated fundamentals and current commodity classification; they are not point-in-time estimates

## Sources

Estimates depend on assumptions and are not guarantees or investment advice. Underlying data remains subject to its source licenses; public reading does not grant bulk redistribution rights.