GSM vs. MTRN, SLCA, SXC, CMP, SCCO, FCX, HBM, MP, SGML, and NGD
Should you be buying Ferroglobe stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ferroglobe include Materion (MTRN), U.S. Silica (SLCA), SunCoke Energy (SXC), Compass Minerals International (CMP), Southern Copper (SCCO), Freeport-McMoRan (FCX), Hudbay Minerals (HBM), MP Materials (MP), Sigma Lithium (SGML), and New Gold (NGD).
Materion (NYSE:MTRN) and Ferroglobe (NASDAQ:GSM) are both basic materials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, valuation, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, institutional ownership, dividends and community ranking.
Materion has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Ferroglobe. Ferroglobe is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Materion, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Materion pays an annual dividend of $0.54 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. Ferroglobe pays an annual dividend of $0.05 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Materion pays out 13.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Ferroglobe pays out 14.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Materion has increased its dividend for 11 consecutive years.
In the previous week, Ferroglobe had 5 more articles in the media than Materion. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Ferroglobe and 0 mentions for Materion. Materion's average media sentiment score of 1.08 beat Ferroglobe's score of 0.00 indicating that Ferroglobe is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Materion has a beta of 1.17, indicating that its share price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ferroglobe has a beta of 1.99, indicating that its share price is 99% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Materion has a net margin of 5.19% compared to Materion's net margin of 3.92%. Materion's return on equity of 15.06% beat Ferroglobe's return on equity.
93.6% of Materion shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.6% of Ferroglobe shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.3% of Materion shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 13.1% of Ferroglobe shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Ferroglobe received 261 more outperform votes than Materion when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.41% of users gave Ferroglobe an outperform vote while only 61.34% of users gave Materion an outperform vote.
Materion currently has a consensus target price of $142.50, suggesting a potential upside of 24.58%. Given Ferroglobe's higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Materion is more favorable than Ferroglobe.
Summary
Materion and Ferroglobe tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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