MP vs. HBM, NGD, GSM, LAC, NEXA, LAAC, CLF, OR, TROX, and EGO
Should you be buying MP Materials stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MP Materials include Hudbay Minerals (HBM), New Gold (NGD), Ferroglobe (GSM), Lithium Americas (LAC), Nexa Resources (NEXA), Lithium Americas (Argentina) (LAAC), Cleveland-Cliffs (CLF), Osisko Gold Royalties (OR), Tronox (TROX), and Eldorado Gold (EGO). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Hudbay Minerals (NYSE:HBM) and MP Materials (NYSE:MP) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, media sentiment and profitability.
Hudbay Minerals has higher revenue and earnings than MP Materials. MP Materials is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hudbay Minerals, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Hudbay Minerals currently has a consensus price target of $10.21, indicating a potential downside of 0.54%. MP Materials has a consensus price target of $23.64, indicating a potential upside of 29.55%. Given Hudbay Minerals' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe MP Materials is more favorable than Hudbay Minerals.
57.8% of Hudbay Minerals shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 52.6% of MP Materials shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of Hudbay Minerals shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 33.9% of MP Materials shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Hudbay Minerals has a beta of 1.88, suggesting that its stock price is 88% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MP Materials has a beta of 2.31, suggesting that its stock price is 131% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Hudbay Minerals had 14 more articles in the media than MP Materials. MarketBeat recorded 23 mentions for Hudbay Minerals and 9 mentions for MP Materials. MP Materials' average media sentiment score of 0.66 beat Hudbay Minerals' score of 0.24 indicating that Hudbay Minerals is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Hudbay Minerals received 470 more outperform votes than MP Materials when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.95% of users gave MP Materials an outperform vote while only 60.18% of users gave Hudbay Minerals an outperform vote.
Hudbay Minerals has a net margin of 4.36% compared to Hudbay Minerals' net margin of 1.62%. MP Materials' return on equity of 6.26% beat Hudbay Minerals' return on equity.
Summary
Hudbay Minerals beats MP Materials on 14 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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