GSM vs. MTRN, SXC, CMP, SCCO, FCX, NGD, SGML, NEXA, MTAL, and LAC
Should you be buying Ferroglobe stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ferroglobe include Materion (MTRN), SunCoke Energy (SXC), Compass Minerals International (CMP), Southern Copper (SCCO), Freeport-McMoRan (FCX), New Gold (NGD), Sigma Lithium (SGML), Nexa Resources (NEXA), Metals Acquisition (MTAL), and Lithium Americas (LAC).
Ferroglobe vs.
Ferroglobe (NASDAQ:GSM) and Materion (NYSE:MTRN) are both basic materials companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, earnings, risk and community ranking.
Ferroglobe has a beta of 1.84, meaning that its stock price is 84% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Materion has a beta of 1.24, meaning that its stock price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Ferroglobe pays an annual dividend of $0.05 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Materion pays an annual dividend of $0.54 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. Ferroglobe pays out 20.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Materion pays out 15.2% 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. Materion has raised its dividend for 12 consecutive years.
Materion has a consensus price target of $152.00, indicating a potential upside of 50.54%. Given Materion's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Materion is more favorable than Ferroglobe.
Materion has a net margin of 4.45% compared to Ferroglobe's net margin of 2.74%. Materion's return on equity of 12.06% beat Ferroglobe's return on equity.
89.6% of Ferroglobe shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.6% of Materion shares are owned by institutional investors. 13.1% of Ferroglobe shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.6% of Materion shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Ferroglobe received 261 more outperform votes than Materion when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.36% of users gave Ferroglobe an outperform vote while only 61.06% of users gave Materion an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Materion had 1 more articles in the media than Ferroglobe. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Materion and 0 mentions for Ferroglobe. Materion's average media sentiment score of 1.23 beat Ferroglobe's score of 0.00 indicating that Materion is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Materion has higher revenue and earnings than Ferroglobe. Ferroglobe is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Materion, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Materion beats Ferroglobe on 15 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:GSM) was last updated on 1/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
