HBM vs. CLF, MP, SGML, NGD, GSM, LAC, CRML, LAAC, MTAL, 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), Sigma Lithium (SGML), New Gold (NGD), Ferroglobe (GSM), Lithium Americas (LAC), Critical Metals (CRML), Lithium Americas (Argentina) (LAAC), Metals Acquisition (MTAL), 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 superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, risk, community ranking, media sentiment and valuation.
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 held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 57.8% of Hudbay Minerals shares are held by institutional investors. 1.8% of Cleveland-Cliffs shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Hudbay Minerals shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
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.
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 currently has a consensus target price of $20.64, indicating a potential upside of 21.93%. Hudbay Minerals has a consensus target price of $10.21, indicating a potential upside of 2.25%. Given Hudbay Minerals' higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Cleveland-Cliffs is more favorable than Hudbay Minerals.
In the previous week, Cleveland-Cliffs had 3 more articles in the media than Hudbay Minerals. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Cleveland-Cliffs and 11 mentions for Hudbay Minerals. Cleveland-Cliffs' average media sentiment score of 0.84 beat Hudbay Minerals' score of 0.47 indicating that Hudbay Minerals is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
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 pays an annual dividend of $0.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Hudbay Minerals pays an annual dividend of $0.01 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.1%. Cleveland-Cliffs pays out 32.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Hudbay Minerals pays out 4.3% 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.
Summary
Cleveland-Cliffs beats Hudbay Minerals on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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