RIO vs. BVN, BHP, SCCO, FCX, VALE, CLF, MP, HBM, NGD, and SGML
Should you be buying Rio Tinto Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Rio Tinto Group include Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A. (BVN), BHP Group (BHP), Southern Copper (SCCO), Freeport-McMoRan (FCX), Vale (VALE), Cleveland-Cliffs (CLF), MP Materials (MP), Hudbay Minerals (HBM), New Gold (NGD), and Sigma Lithium (SGML). These companies are all part of the "metal mining" industry.
Rio Tinto Group vs.
Rio Tinto Group (NYSE:RIO) and Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A. (NYSE:BVN) are both basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment and risk.
Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A. has a net margin of 32.40% compared to Rio Tinto Group's net margin of 0.00%. Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A.'s return on equity of 6.15% beat Rio Tinto Group's return on equity.
Rio Tinto Group has a beta of 0.66, suggesting that its stock price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A. has a beta of 0.81, suggesting that its stock price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500.
19.3% of Rio Tinto Group shares are held by institutional investors. 19.3% of Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A. shares are held 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.
Rio Tinto Group received 1158 more outperform votes than Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A. when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.37% of users gave Rio Tinto Group an outperform vote while only 58.09% of users gave Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A. an outperform vote.
Rio Tinto Group presently has a consensus target price of $73.00, indicating a potential upside of 19.86%. Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A. has a consensus target price of $16.50, indicating a potential upside of 29.01%. Given Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A.'s higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A. is more favorable than Rio Tinto Group.
Rio Tinto Group pays an annual dividend of $3.53 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.8%. Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A. pays an annual dividend of $0.07 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. Rio Tinto Group pays out 53.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A. pays out 5.0% 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.
Rio Tinto Group has higher revenue and earnings than Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A.. Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A. is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Rio Tinto Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Rio Tinto Group had 11 more articles in the media than Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A.. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Rio Tinto Group and 4 mentions for Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A.. Rio Tinto Group's average media sentiment score of 1.31 beat Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A.'s score of 0.67 indicating that Rio Tinto Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Rio Tinto Group beats Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A. on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:RIO) was last updated on 1/31/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
