MP vs. CLF, HBM, SGML, NGD, GSM, NEXA, CRML, MTAL, LAC, and LAAC
Should you be buying MP Materials stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MP Materials include Cleveland-Cliffs (CLF), Hudbay Minerals (HBM), Sigma Lithium (SGML), New Gold (NGD), Ferroglobe (GSM), Nexa Resources (NEXA), Critical Metals (CRML), Metals Acquisition (MTAL), Lithium Americas (LAC), and Lithium Americas (Argentina) (LAAC). These companies are all part of the "metal mining" industry.
MP Materials (NYSE:MP) and Cleveland-Cliffs (NYSE:CLF) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, valuation, community ranking, risk, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings and profitability.
In the previous week, MP Materials had 1 more articles in the media than Cleveland-Cliffs. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for MP Materials and 11 mentions for Cleveland-Cliffs. Cleveland-Cliffs' average media sentiment score of 0.87 beat MP Materials' score of 0.14 indicating that Cleveland-Cliffs is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
MP Materials presently has a consensus price target of $23.64, suggesting a potential upside of 45.76%. Cleveland-Cliffs has a consensus price target of $20.64, suggesting a potential upside of 19.46%. Given MP Materials' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe MP Materials is more favorable than Cleveland-Cliffs.
Cleveland-Cliffs has higher revenue and earnings than MP Materials. MP Materials is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cleveland-Cliffs, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
52.6% of MP Materials shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 67.7% of Cleveland-Cliffs shares are held by institutional investors. 12.6% of MP Materials shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of Cleveland-Cliffs shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Cleveland-Cliffs has a net margin of 1.78% compared to MP Materials' net margin of 1.62%. Cleveland-Cliffs' return on equity of 8.69% beat MP Materials' return on equity.
MP Materials has a beta of 2.31, suggesting that its stock price is 131% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cleveland-Cliffs has a beta of 2.1, suggesting that its stock price is 110% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Cleveland-Cliffs received 655 more outperform votes than MP Materials when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.95% of users gave MP Materials an outperform vote while only 53.39% of users gave Cleveland-Cliffs an outperform vote.
Summary
Cleveland-Cliffs beats MP Materials on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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