ERO vs. LUN, KAT, TRQ, CS, HBM, IE, NSU, AYM, CMMC, and III
Should you be buying Ero Copper stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ero Copper include Lundin Mining (LUN), Katanga Mining Limited (KAT.TO) (KAT), Turquoise Hill Resources (TRQ), Capstone Copper (CS), Hudbay Minerals (HBM), Ivanhoe Electric (IE), Nevsun Resources (NSU), Atalaya Mining (AYM), Copper Mountain Mining (CMMC), and Imperial Metals (III). These companies are all part of the "copper" industry.
Ero Copper (TSE:ERO) and Lundin Mining (TSE:LUN) are both basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, valuation, dividends, profitability, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, earnings and analyst recommendations.
Ero Copper presently has a consensus price target of C$31.54, indicating a potential upside of 6.73%. Lundin Mining has a consensus price target of C$16.17, indicating a potential upside of 1.07%. Given Ero Copper's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Ero Copper is more favorable than Lundin Mining.
In the previous week, Lundin Mining had 2 more articles in the media than Ero Copper. MarketBeat recorded 22 mentions for Lundin Mining and 20 mentions for Ero Copper. Lundin Mining's average media sentiment score of 0.51 beat Ero Copper's score of 0.45 indicating that Lundin Mining is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Lundin Mining received 508 more outperform votes than Ero Copper when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.77% of users gave Lundin Mining an outperform vote while only 54.25% of users gave Ero Copper an outperform vote.
76.3% of Ero Copper shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 56.7% of Lundin Mining shares are owned by institutional investors. 10.9% of Ero Copper shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 15.7% of Lundin Mining 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.
Ero Copper has a net margin of 14.23% compared to Lundin Mining's net margin of 3.04%. Ero Copper's return on equity of 9.21% beat Lundin Mining's return on equity.
Lundin Mining has higher revenue and earnings than Ero Copper. Ero Copper is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Lundin Mining, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Ero Copper has a beta of 2.12, suggesting that its share price is 112% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lundin Mining has a beta of 1.82, suggesting that its share price is 82% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Lundin Mining beats Ero Copper on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding ERO and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
This chart shows the average media sentiment of TSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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