SQM vs. TECK, CCJ, SUM, KNF, MP, HBM, NXE, AESI, NGD, and LEU
Should you be buying Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile include Teck Resources (TECK), Cameco (CCJ), Summit Materials (SUM), Knife River (KNF), MP Materials (MP), Hudbay Minerals (HBM), NexGen Energy (NXE), Atlas Energy Solutions (AESI), New Gold (NGD), and Centrus Energy (LEU). These companies are all part of the "non-metallic and industrial metal mining" industry.
Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile vs.
Teck Resources (NYSE:TECK) and Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile (NYSE:SQM) are both large-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, valuation, community ranking and profitability.
Teck Resources has a beta of 1.02, indicating that its share price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile has a beta of 1.04, indicating that its share price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Teck Resources presently has a consensus price target of $65.38, indicating a potential upside of 55.47%. Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile has a consensus price target of $45.56, indicating a potential upside of 13.88%. Given Teck Resources' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Teck Resources is more favorable than Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile.
Teck Resources received 437 more outperform votes than Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.41% of users gave Teck Resources an outperform vote while only 56.04% of users gave Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile an outperform vote.
Teck Resources has higher revenue and earnings than Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile. Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Teck Resources, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Teck Resources had 11 more articles in the media than Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for Teck Resources and 5 mentions for Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile. Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile's average media sentiment score of 1.25 beat Teck Resources' score of 0.83 indicating that Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Teck Resources has a net margin of 3.32% compared to Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile's net margin of -6.74%. Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile's return on equity of 16.12% beat Teck Resources' return on equity.
Teck Resources pays an annual dividend of $0.35 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile pays an annual dividend of $0.14 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.3%. Teck Resources pays out 53.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile pays out -12.6% 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.
78.1% of Teck Resources shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 12.4% of Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of Teck Resources shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Teck Resources beats Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile on 15 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:SQM) was last updated on 2/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
