HBM vs. ERO, IE, CS, LUN, FM, MX, LUG, BTO, SJ, and ELD
Should you be buying Hudbay Minerals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hudbay Minerals include Ero Copper (ERO), Ivanhoe Electric (IE), Capstone Copper (CS), Lundin Mining (LUN), First Quantum Minerals (FM), Methanex (MX), Lundin Gold (LUG), B2Gold (BTO), Stella-Jones (SJ), and Eldorado Gold (ELD). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Hudbay Minerals (TSE:HBM) and Ero Copper (TSE:ERO) 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, earnings, community ranking, valuation, profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations and media sentiment.
67.7% of Hudbay Minerals shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 76.3% of Ero Copper shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of Hudbay Minerals shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 10.9% of Ero Copper shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Hudbay Minerals presently has a consensus target price of C$14.30, suggesting a potential upside of 7.33%. Ero Copper has a consensus target price of C$31.54, suggesting a potential upside of 6.91%. Given Hudbay Minerals' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Hudbay Minerals is more favorable than Ero Copper.
Hudbay Minerals received 655 more outperform votes than Ero Copper when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.55% of users gave Hudbay Minerals an outperform vote while only 54.25% of users gave Ero Copper an outperform vote.
Hudbay Minerals has higher revenue and earnings than Ero Copper. Ero Copper is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hudbay Minerals, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Ero Copper has a net margin of 14.23% compared to Hudbay Minerals' net margin of 4.34%. Ero Copper's return on equity of 9.21% beat Hudbay Minerals' return on equity.
In the previous week, Hudbay Minerals had 7 more articles in the media than Ero Copper. MarketBeat recorded 25 mentions for Hudbay Minerals and 18 mentions for Ero Copper. Hudbay Minerals' average media sentiment score of 0.58 beat Ero Copper's score of 0.45 indicating that Hudbay Minerals is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Hudbay Minerals has a beta of 1.96, suggesting that its share price is 96% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ero Copper has a beta of 2.12, suggesting that its share price is 112% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Hudbay Minerals beats Ero Copper on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding HBM and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
This chart shows the average media sentiment of TSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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