HBM vs. MP, NGD, GSM, LAC, NEXA, CLF, MEOH, SBSW, HL, and TFPM
Should you be buying Hudbay Minerals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hudbay Minerals include MP Materials (MP), New Gold (NGD), Ferroglobe (GSM), Lithium Americas (LAC), Nexa Resources (NEXA), Cleveland-Cliffs (CLF), Methanex (MEOH), Sibanye Stillwater (SBSW), Hecla Mining (HL), and Triple Flag Precious Metals (TFPM). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Hudbay Minerals (NYSE:HBM) and MP Materials (NYSE:MP) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, media sentiment, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
Hudbay Minerals has a net margin of 4.36% compared to MP Materials' net margin of 1.62%. Hudbay Minerals' return on equity of 6.22% beat MP Materials' return on equity.
Hudbay Minerals currently has a consensus target price of $10.21, indicating a potential downside of 0.54%. MP Materials has a consensus target price of $23.64, indicating a potential upside of 29.55%. Given MP Materials' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe MP Materials is more favorable than Hudbay Minerals.
In the previous week, Hudbay Minerals had 12 more articles in the media than MP Materials. MarketBeat recorded 26 mentions for Hudbay Minerals and 14 mentions for MP Materials. Hudbay Minerals' average media sentiment score of 0.78 beat MP Materials' score of 0.50 indicating that Hudbay Minerals is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Hudbay Minerals has higher revenue and earnings than MP Materials. MP Materials 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 received 470 more outperform votes than MP Materials when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.95% of users gave MP Materials an outperform vote while only 60.18% of users gave Hudbay Minerals an outperform vote.
Hudbay Minerals has a beta of 1.88, indicating that its share price is 88% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MP Materials has a beta of 2.31, indicating that its share price is 131% more volatile than the S&P 500.
57.8% of Hudbay Minerals shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 52.6% of MP Materials shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of Hudbay Minerals shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 33.9% of MP Materials shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Hudbay Minerals beats MP Materials on 14 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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