HBM vs. CLF, MP, NGD, SGML, GSM, CRML, MTAL, LAC, LAAC, and TMC
Should you be buying Hudbay Minerals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hudbay Minerals include Cleveland-Cliffs (CLF), MP Materials (MP), New Gold (NGD), Sigma Lithium (SGML), Ferroglobe (GSM), Critical Metals (CRML), Metals Acquisition (MTAL), Lithium Americas (LAC), Lithium Americas (Argentina) (LAAC), and TMC the metals (TMC). These companies are all part of the "metal mining" industry.
Cleveland-Cliffs (NYSE:CLF) and Hudbay Minerals (NYSE:HBM) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, media sentiment and earnings.
Cleveland-Cliffs received 184 more outperform votes than Hudbay Minerals when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.23% of users gave Hudbay Minerals an outperform vote while only 53.39% of users gave Cleveland-Cliffs an outperform vote.
Cleveland-Cliffs presently has a consensus price target of $20.64, indicating a potential upside of 19.46%. Hudbay Minerals has a consensus price target of $10.21, indicating a potential upside of 4.65%. Given Hudbay Minerals' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Cleveland-Cliffs is more favorable than Hudbay Minerals.
Cleveland-Cliffs has a beta of 2.1, meaning that its share price is 110% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hudbay Minerals has a beta of 1.88, meaning that its share price is 88% more volatile than the S&P 500.
67.7% of Cleveland-Cliffs shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 57.8% of Hudbay Minerals shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.8% of Cleveland-Cliffs shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Hudbay Minerals shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Hudbay Minerals has a net margin of 4.36% compared to Hudbay Minerals' net margin of 1.78%. Hudbay Minerals' return on equity of 8.69% beat Cleveland-Cliffs' return on equity.
Cleveland-Cliffs has higher revenue and earnings than Hudbay Minerals. Cleveland-Cliffs is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hudbay Minerals, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Hudbay Minerals had 3 more articles in the media than Cleveland-Cliffs. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for Hudbay Minerals and 13 mentions for Cleveland-Cliffs. Hudbay Minerals' average media sentiment score of 1.07 beat Cleveland-Cliffs' score of 0.69 indicating that Cleveland-Cliffs is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Cleveland-Cliffs beats Hudbay Minerals on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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