RIO vs. BHP, SCCO, FCX, VALE, CLF, HBM, MP, NGD, SGML, and GSM
Should you be buying Rio Tinto Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Rio Tinto Group include BHP Group (BHP), Southern Copper (SCCO), Freeport-McMoRan (FCX), Vale (VALE), Cleveland-Cliffs (CLF), Hudbay Minerals (HBM), MP Materials (MP), New Gold (NGD), Sigma Lithium (SGML), and Ferroglobe (GSM). These companies are all part of the "metal mining" industry.
Rio Tinto Group (NYSE:RIO) and BHP Group (NYSE:BHP) are both large-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, community ranking, valuation and institutional ownership.
Rio Tinto Group presently has a consensus target price of $72.00, suggesting a potential upside of 2.71%. BHP Group has a consensus target price of $50.00, suggesting a potential downside of 16.01%. Given Rio Tinto Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Rio Tinto Group is more favorable than BHP Group.
19.3% of Rio Tinto Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 3.8% of BHP Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.0% of BHP Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Rio Tinto Group has a beta of 0.68, indicating that its stock price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BHP Group has a beta of 0.98, indicating that its stock price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500.
BHP Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Rio Tinto Group.
Rio Tinto Group received 606 more outperform votes than BHP Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.35% of users gave Rio Tinto Group an outperform vote while only 66.06% of users gave BHP Group an outperform vote.
Rio Tinto Group pays an annual dividend of $5.15 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.3%. BHP Group pays an annual dividend of $2.85 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.8%.
In the previous week, BHP Group had 21 more articles in the media than Rio Tinto Group. MarketBeat recorded 26 mentions for BHP Group and 5 mentions for Rio Tinto Group. Rio Tinto Group's average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat BHP Group's score of 0.16 indicating that Rio Tinto Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Rio Tinto Group beats BHP Group on 9 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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