MTRN vs. SXC, GSM, CMP, SCCO, FCX, TRS, PKOH, MEC, ICL, and CE
Should you be buying Materion stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Materion include SunCoke Energy (SXC), Ferroglobe (GSM), Compass Minerals International (CMP), Southern Copper (SCCO), Freeport-McMoRan (FCX), TriMas (TRS), Park-Ohio (PKOH), Mayville Engineering (MEC), ICL Group (ICL), and Celanese (CE).
Materion vs.
SunCoke Energy (NYSE:SXC) and Materion (NYSE:MTRN) are both oils/energy companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, community ranking, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment and risk.
SunCoke Energy received 101 more outperform votes than Materion when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.35% of users gave SunCoke Energy an outperform vote while only 61.06% of users gave Materion an outperform vote.
SunCoke Energy has a net margin of 4.95% compared to Materion's net margin of 0.35%. SunCoke Energy's return on equity of 14.31% beat Materion's return on equity.
SunCoke Energy presently has a consensus price target of $13.00, indicating a potential upside of 39.56%. Materion has a consensus price target of $152.00, indicating a potential upside of 56.77%. Given Materion's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Materion is more favorable than SunCoke Energy.
SunCoke Energy pays an annual dividend of $0.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.2%. Materion pays an annual dividend of $0.54 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. SunCoke Energy pays out 42.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Materion pays out 186.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Materion has raised its dividend for 12 consecutive years. SunCoke Energy is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
90.5% of SunCoke Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.6% of Materion shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.7% of SunCoke Energy shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.3% of Materion shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Materion had 18 more articles in the media than SunCoke Energy. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Materion and 0 mentions for SunCoke Energy. Materion's average media sentiment score of 0.57 beat SunCoke Energy's score of 0.00 indicating that Materion is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
SunCoke Energy has a beta of 1.06, meaning that its stock price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Materion has a beta of 1.23, meaning that its stock price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500.
SunCoke Energy has higher revenue and earnings than Materion. SunCoke Energy 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 SunCoke Energy on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:MTRN) was last updated on 2/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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