MP vs. CLF, HBM, NGD, SGML, GSM, CRML, MTAL, LAC, LAAC, and TMC
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), 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 MP Materials (NYSE:MP) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, valuation, profitability, earnings, media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking and institutional ownership.
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.
Cleveland-Cliffs currently has a consensus price target of $20.64, suggesting a potential upside of 30.65%. MP Materials has a consensus price target of $23.64, suggesting a potential upside of 59.32%. Given Cleveland-Cliffs' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe MP Materials is more favorable than Cleveland-Cliffs.
Cleveland-Cliffs has a net margin of 1.78% compared to Cleveland-Cliffs' net margin of 1.62%. MP Materials' return on equity of 8.69% beat Cleveland-Cliffs' return on equity.
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.
In the previous week, Cleveland-Cliffs and Cleveland-Cliffs both had 5 articles in the media. Cleveland-Cliffs' average media sentiment score of 1.40 beat MP Materials' score of 0.89 indicating that MP Materials is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Cleveland-Cliffs has a beta of 2.08, indicating that its share price is 108% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MP Materials has a beta of 2.28, indicating that its share price is 128% more volatile than the S&P 500.
67.7% of Cleveland-Cliffs shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 52.6% of MP Materials shares are held by institutional investors. 1.8% of Cleveland-Cliffs shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 12.6% of MP Materials shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Cleveland-Cliffs beats MP Materials on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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