RIO vs. SCCO, FCX, VALE, BHP, ECL, APD, NEM, NUE, DOW, and LYB
Should you be buying Rio Tinto Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Rio Tinto Group include Southern Copper (SCCO), Freeport-McMoRan (FCX), Vale (VALE), BHP Group (BHP), Ecolab (ECL), Air Products and Chemicals (APD), Newmont (NEM), Nucor (NUE), DOW (DOW), and LyondellBasell Industries (LYB). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Southern Copper (NYSE:SCCO) and Rio Tinto Group (NYSE:RIO) are both large-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, risk, profitability, media sentiment and community ranking.
Southern Copper currently has a consensus price target of $90.50, suggesting a potential downside of 21.58%. Rio Tinto Group has a consensus price target of $72.00, suggesting a potential upside of 4.44%. Given Southern Copper's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Rio Tinto Group is more favorable than Southern Copper.
Rio Tinto Group received 1078 more outperform votes than Southern Copper when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.36% of users gave Rio Tinto Group an outperform vote while only 56.40% of users gave Southern Copper an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Southern Copper had 6 more articles in the media than Rio Tinto Group. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for Southern Copper and 10 mentions for Rio Tinto Group. Rio Tinto Group's average media sentiment score of 0.72 beat Southern Copper's score of 0.68 indicating that Southern Copper is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Southern Copper has a beta of 1.27, indicating that its share price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Rio Tinto Group has a beta of 0.68, indicating that its share price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500.
7.9% of Southern Copper shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 19.3% of Rio Tinto Group shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of Southern Copper shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Southern Copper pays an annual dividend of $3.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. Rio Tinto Group pays an annual dividend of $5.15 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.5%. Southern Copper pays out 105.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Rio Tinto Group has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Rio Tinto Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Southern Copper has a net margin of 24.20% compared to Southern Copper's net margin of 0.00%. Rio Tinto Group's return on equity of 30.44% beat Southern Copper's return on equity.
Rio Tinto Group has higher revenue and earnings than Southern Copper.
Summary
Rio Tinto Group beats Southern Copper on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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