Rio Tinto Group (RIO) Competitors

Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A. (NYSE:BVN) and Rio Tinto Group (NYSE:RIO) are both basic materials companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, profitability, earnings, media sentiment, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership and community ranking.

Is BVN or RIO more profitable?

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 6.30% beat Rio Tinto Group's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A.	32.40%	6.30%	4.46%
Rio Tinto Group	N/A	N/A	N/A

Does the media favor BVN or RIO?

In the previous week, Rio Tinto Group had 9 more articles in the media than Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A.. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Rio Tinto Group and 0 mentions for Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A.. Rio Tinto Group's average media sentiment score of 0.62 beat Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A.'s score of 0.00 indicating that Rio Tinto Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A.	Neutral
Rio Tinto Group	Positive

Which has preferable earnings and valuation, BVN or RIO?

Rio Tinto Group has higher revenue and earnings than Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A..

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A.	$1.11B	2.78	$19.85M	$1.41	8.61
Rio Tinto Group	$54.04B	1.45	$10.06B	N/A	N/A

Do insiders and institutionals have more ownership in BVN or RIO?

19.3% of Rio Tinto Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 19.3% of Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A. shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Which has more risk & volatility, BVN or RIO?

Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A. has a beta of 0.83, meaning that its share price is 17% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Rio Tinto Group has a beta of 0.67, meaning that its share price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Do analysts rate BVN or RIO?

Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A. presently has a consensus target price of $16.50, indicating a potential upside of 35.91%. Given Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A.'s higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A. is more favorable than Rio Tinto Group.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A.	1 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.00
Rio Tinto Group	0 Sell rating(s)	4 Hold rating(s)	4 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.67

Does the MarketBeat Community favor BVN or RIO?

Rio Tinto Group received 1157 more outperform votes than Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A. when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.33% of users gave Rio Tinto Group an outperform vote while only 58.15% of users gave Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A. an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A.	Outperform Votes 321 58.15%	Underperform Votes 231 41.85%
Rio Tinto Group	Outperform Votes 1478 71.33%	Underperform Votes 594 28.67%

Is BVN or RIO a better dividend stock?

Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A. pays an annual dividend of $0.07 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Rio Tinto Group pays an annual dividend of $3.53 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.7%. Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A. pays out 5.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.

Summary

Rio Tinto Group beats Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A. on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.