VALE vs. FCX, RIO, SCCO, BHP, APD, NEM, ECL, DOW, NUE, and VNTRQ
Should you be buying Vale stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Vale include Freeport-McMoRan (FCX), Rio Tinto Group (RIO), Southern Copper (SCCO), BHP Group (BHP), Air Products and Chemicals (APD), Newmont (NEM), Ecolab (ECL), DOW (DOW), Nucor (NUE), and Venator Materials (VNTRQ). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Freeport-McMoRan (NYSE:FCX) and Vale (NYSE:VALE) are both large-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends, risk, media sentiment, earnings and community ranking.
Vale has a net margin of 18.72% compared to Vale's net margin of 6.97%. Freeport-McMoRan's return on equity of 19.59% beat Vale's return on equity.
Freeport-McMoRan has a beta of 2.02, meaning that its stock price is 102% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Vale has a beta of 0.97, meaning that its stock price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Freeport-McMoRan had 19 more articles in the media than Vale. MarketBeat recorded 28 mentions for Freeport-McMoRan and 9 mentions for Vale. Freeport-McMoRan's average media sentiment score of 0.72 beat Vale's score of 0.71 indicating that Vale is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Vale has higher revenue and earnings than Freeport-McMoRan. Vale is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Freeport-McMoRan, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Freeport-McMoRan received 322 more outperform votes than Vale when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.49% of users gave Freeport-McMoRan an outperform vote while only 61.17% of users gave Vale an outperform vote.
80.8% of Freeport-McMoRan shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 21.9% of Vale shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.8% of Freeport-McMoRan shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Freeport-McMoRan presently has a consensus target price of $51.00, indicating a potential downside of 5.96%. Vale has a consensus target price of $16.67, indicating a potential upside of 28.32%. Given Freeport-McMoRan's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Vale is more favorable than Freeport-McMoRan.
Freeport-McMoRan pays an annual dividend of $0.30 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Vale pays an annual dividend of $1.18 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.1%. Freeport-McMoRan pays out 26.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Vale pays out 65.2% 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. Vale has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Vale is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Summary
Freeport-McMoRan beats Vale on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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