HBM vs. SQM, SUM, KNF, MP, NXE, AESI, NGD, LEU, ERO, and SGML
Should you be buying Hudbay Minerals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hudbay Minerals include Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile (SQM), Summit Materials (SUM), Knife River (KNF), MP Materials (MP), NexGen Energy (NXE), Atlas Energy Solutions (AESI), New Gold (NGD), Centrus Energy (LEU), Ero Copper (ERO), and Sigma Lithium (SGML). These companies are all part of the "non-metallic and industrial metal mining" industry.
Hudbay Minerals vs.
Hudbay Minerals (NYSE:HBM) and Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile (NYSE:SQM) are both basic materials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking, analyst recommendations and profitability.
Hudbay Minerals received 158 more outperform votes than Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.25% of users gave Hudbay Minerals an outperform vote while only 56.04% of users gave Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile an outperform vote.
Hudbay Minerals currently has a consensus target price of $11.17, indicating a potential upside of 57.39%. Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile has a consensus target price of $45.56, indicating a potential upside of 14.80%. Given Hudbay Minerals' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Hudbay Minerals is more favorable than Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile.
57.8% of Hudbay Minerals shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 12.4% of Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of Hudbay Minerals 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.
In the previous week, Hudbay Minerals had 15 more articles in the media than Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for Hudbay Minerals and 5 mentions for Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile. Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile's average media sentiment score of 1.25 beat Hudbay Minerals' score of 0.49 indicating that Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile has higher revenue and earnings than Hudbay Minerals. Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hudbay Minerals, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Hudbay Minerals pays an annual dividend of $0.01 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.1%. Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile pays an annual dividend of $0.14 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.4%. Hudbay Minerals pays out 5.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile pays out -12.6% 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. Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Hudbay Minerals has a beta of 1.74, indicating that its stock price is 74% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile has a beta of 1.04, indicating that its stock price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Hudbay Minerals has a net margin of 3.80% compared to Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile's net margin of -6.74%. Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile's return on equity of 16.12% beat Hudbay Minerals' return on equity.
Summary
Hudbay Minerals beats Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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