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.
Hudbay Minerals (NYSE:HBM) and Cleveland-Cliffs (NYSE:CLF) 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 profitability, community ranking, valuation, media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership and dividends.
Hudbay Minerals currently has a consensus target price of $10.21, indicating a potential upside of 4.23%. Cleveland-Cliffs has a consensus target price of $20.64, indicating a potential upside of 23.09%. Given Cleveland-Cliffs' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Cleveland-Cliffs is more favorable than Hudbay Minerals.
Hudbay Minerals has a net margin of 4.36% compared to Cleveland-Cliffs' net margin of 1.78%. Cleveland-Cliffs' return on equity of 8.69% beat Hudbay Minerals' return on equity.
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.
Hudbay Minerals has a beta of 1.88, indicating that its share price is 88% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cleveland-Cliffs has a beta of 2.1, indicating that its share price is 110% more volatile than the S&P 500.
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.
57.8% of Hudbay Minerals shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 67.7% of Cleveland-Cliffs shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of Hudbay Minerals shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of Cleveland-Cliffs shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Hudbay Minerals had 2 more articles in the media than Cleveland-Cliffs. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for Hudbay Minerals and 14 mentions for Cleveland-Cliffs. Hudbay Minerals' average media sentiment score of 1.06 beat Cleveland-Cliffs' score of 0.62 indicating that Hudbay Minerals is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Cleveland-Cliffs beats Hudbay Minerals on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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