SUM vs. CCJ, TECK, KNF, NXE, MP, HBM, AESI, NGD, ERO, and SGML
Should you be buying Summit Materials stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Summit Materials include Cameco (CCJ), Teck Resources (TECK), Knife River (KNF), NexGen Energy (NXE), MP Materials (MP), Hudbay Minerals (HBM), Atlas Energy Solutions (AESI), New Gold (NGD), Ero Copper (ERO), and Sigma Lithium (SGML). These companies are all part of the "non-metallic and industrial metal mining" industry.
Summit Materials vs.
Cameco (NYSE:CCJ) and Summit Materials (NYSE:SUM) are both basic materials companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, earnings and risk.
Summit Materials has higher revenue and earnings than Cameco. Summit Materials is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cameco, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
70.2% of Cameco shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of Cameco shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Summit Materials shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Cameco has a beta of 0.95, meaning that its share price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Summit Materials has a beta of 1.14, meaning that its share price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Cameco has a net margin of 4.15% compared to Summit Materials' net margin of 3.92%. Summit Materials' return on equity of 6.90% beat Cameco's return on equity.
In the previous week, Cameco had 20 more articles in the media than Summit Materials. MarketBeat recorded 23 mentions for Cameco and 3 mentions for Summit Materials. Cameco's average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat Summit Materials' score of 0.62 indicating that Cameco is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Cameco received 96 more outperform votes than Summit Materials when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.12% of users gave Cameco an outperform vote while only 61.29% of users gave Summit Materials an outperform vote.
Cameco presently has a consensus target price of $66.56, suggesting a potential upside of 18.66%. Summit Materials has a consensus target price of $50.54, suggesting a potential downside of 3.21%. Given Cameco's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Cameco is more favorable than Summit Materials.
Summary
Cameco beats Summit Materials on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:SUM) was last updated on 1/26/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
