RIO vs. BVN, BHP, SCCO, FCX, VALE, MP, CLF, NGD, HBM, and TMC
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), MP Materials (MP), Cleveland-Cliffs (CLF), New Gold (NGD), Hudbay Minerals (HBM), and TMC the metals (TMC). 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 better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, media sentiment and earnings.
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.
Rio Tinto Group has a beta of 0.66, indicating that its share price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A. has a beta of 0.37, indicating that its share price is 63% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Rio Tinto Group presently has a consensus target price of $73.00, indicating a potential upside of 19.89%. Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A. has a consensus target price of $16.75, indicating a potential upside of 16.56%. Given Rio Tinto Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Rio Tinto Group is more favorable than Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A..
In the previous week, Rio Tinto Group had 10 more articles in the media than Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A.. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for Rio Tinto Group and 10 mentions for Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A.. Rio Tinto Group's average media sentiment score of 1.34 beat Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A.'s score of 0.83 indicating that Rio Tinto Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
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 large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
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 pays an annual dividend of $4.46 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.3%. Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A. pays an annual dividend of $0.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Rio Tinto Group pays out 69.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A. pays out 17.7% 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 received 1169 more outperform votes than Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A. when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.49% of users gave Rio Tinto Group an outperform vote while only 57.89% of users gave Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A. an outperform vote.
Summary
Rio Tinto Group beats Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A. on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:RIO) was last updated on 4/29/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff