III vs. ERO, TKO, IE, AYM, CMMC, ARG, LA, FDY, CUU, and HI
Should you be buying Imperial Metals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Imperial Metals include Ero Copper (ERO), Taseko Mines (TKO), Ivanhoe Electric (IE), Atalaya Mining (AYM), Copper Mountain Mining (CMMC), Amerigo Resources (ARG), Los Andes Copper (LA), Faraday Copper (FDY), Copper Fox Metals (CUU), and Highland Copper (HI). These companies are all part of the "copper" industry.
Imperial Metals vs.
Ero Copper (TSE:ERO) and Imperial Metals (TSE:III) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk and valuation.
77.3% of Ero Copper shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 16.7% of Imperial Metals shares are owned by institutional investors. 10.4% of Ero Copper shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 49.3% of Imperial Metals shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Ero Copper presently has a consensus price target of C$30.58, suggesting a potential upside of 74.56%. Given Ero Copper's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Ero Copper is more favorable than Imperial Metals.
Imperial Metals received 7 more outperform votes than Ero Copper when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 53.23% of users gave Ero Copper an outperform vote while only 53.13% of users gave Imperial Metals an outperform vote.
Imperial Metals has a net margin of 7.33% compared to Ero Copper's net margin of 3.45%. Imperial Metals' return on equity of 4.53% beat Ero Copper's return on equity.
Imperial Metals has higher revenue and earnings than Ero Copper. Imperial Metals is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ero Copper, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Ero Copper has a beta of 1.98, indicating that its share price is 98% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Imperial Metals has a beta of 1.2, indicating that its share price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Imperial Metals had 3 more articles in the media than Ero Copper. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Imperial Metals and 2 mentions for Ero Copper. Ero Copper's average media sentiment score of 0.71 beat Imperial Metals' score of 0.39 indicating that Ero Copper is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Ero Copper beats Imperial Metals on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (TSE:III) was last updated on 3/30/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
