BHP vs. SCCO, RIO, FCX, VALE, CLF, HBM, MP, SGML, NGD, and GSM
Should you be buying BHP Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BHP Group include Southern Copper (SCCO), Rio Tinto Group (RIO), Freeport-McMoRan (FCX), Vale (VALE), Cleveland-Cliffs (CLF), Hudbay Minerals (HBM), MP Materials (MP), Sigma Lithium (SGML), New Gold (NGD), and Ferroglobe (GSM). These companies are all part of the "metal mining" industry.
Southern Copper (NYSE:SCCO) and BHP Group (NYSE:BHP) are both large-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, earnings, media sentiment and risk.
BHP Group has higher revenue and earnings than Southern Copper.
BHP Group received 472 more outperform votes than Southern Copper when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.08% of users gave BHP Group an outperform vote while only 56.30% of users gave Southern Copper an outperform vote.
Southern Copper presently has a consensus target price of $90.33, indicating a potential downside of 24.40%. BHP Group has a consensus target price of $50.00, indicating a potential downside of 15.88%. Given Southern Copper's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe BHP Group is more favorable than Southern Copper.
Southern Copper has a beta of 1.27, suggesting that its share price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BHP Group has a beta of 0.98, suggesting that its share price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500.
7.9% of Southern Copper shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 3.8% of BHP Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of Southern Copper shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.0% of BHP Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Southern Copper has a net margin of 24.20% compared to Southern Copper's net margin of 0.00%. BHP Group's return on equity of 30.44% beat Southern Copper's return on equity.
Southern Copper pays an annual dividend of $0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.0%. BHP Group pays an annual dividend of $2.85 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.8%. Southern Copper pays out 1.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
In the previous week, BHP Group had 21 more articles in the media than Southern Copper. MarketBeat recorded 30 mentions for BHP Group and 9 mentions for Southern Copper. BHP Group's average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat Southern Copper's score of 0.01 indicating that Southern Copper is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
BHP Group beats Southern Copper on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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