SLCA vs. MTRN, GSM, SXC, CMP, SCCO, FCX, KNF, HL, USLM, and UUUU
Should you be buying U.S. Silica stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of U.S. Silica include Materion (MTRN), Ferroglobe (GSM), SunCoke Energy (SXC), Compass Minerals International (CMP), Southern Copper (SCCO), Freeport-McMoRan (FCX), Knife River (KNF), Hecla Mining (HL), United States Lime & Minerals (USLM), and Energy Fuels (UUUU).
U.S. Silica (NYSE:SLCA) and Materion (NYSE:MTRN) are both basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, earnings, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking, profitability, valuation and analyst recommendations.
U.S. Silica presently has a consensus price target of $15.25, indicating a potential downside of 1.55%. Materion has a consensus price target of $142.50, indicating a potential upside of 24.58%. Given Materion's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Materion is more favorable than U.S. Silica.
U.S. Silica has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Materion. U.S. Silica is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Materion, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
U.S. Silica received 556 more outperform votes than Materion when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 74.04% of users gave U.S. Silica an outperform vote while only 61.34% of users gave Materion an outperform vote.
In the previous week, U.S. Silica had 3 more articles in the media than Materion. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for U.S. Silica and 0 mentions for Materion. U.S. Silica's average media sentiment score of 0.42 beat Materion's score of 0.00 indicating that U.S. Silica is being referred to more favorably in the media.
87.8% of U.S. Silica shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.6% of Materion shares are held by institutional investors. 3.7% of U.S. Silica shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.3% of Materion shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
U.S. Silica pays an annual dividend of $0.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. Materion pays an annual dividend of $0.54 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. U.S. Silica pays out 5.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Materion pays out 13.5% 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. U.S. Silica is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
U.S. Silica has a net margin of 8.08% compared to Materion's net margin of 5.19%. U.S. Silica's return on equity of 13.77% beat Materion's return on equity.
U.S. Silica has a beta of 2.16, indicating that its stock price is 116% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Materion has a beta of 1.17, indicating that its stock price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
U.S. Silica beats Materion on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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