BHP vs. SCCO, RIO, FCX, VALE, LIN, VNTRQ, VNTR, ECL, APD, and NEM
Should you be buying BHP Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BHP Group include Southern Copper (SCCO), Rio Tinto Group (RIO), Freeport-McMoRan (FCX), Vale (VALE), Linde (LIN), Venator Materials (VNTRQ), Venator Materials (VNTR), Ecolab (ECL), Air Products and Chemicals (APD), and Newmont (NEM). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Southern Copper (NYSE:SCCO) and BHP Group (NYSE:BHP) are both large-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, earnings, dividends, community ranking, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations and valuation.
Southern Copper presently has a consensus target price of $76.00, suggesting a potential downside of 35.01%. BHP Group has a consensus target price of $50.00, suggesting a potential downside of 11.39%. Given Southern Copper's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe BHP Group is more favorable than Southern Copper.
7.9% of Southern Copper shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 3.8% of BHP Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of Southern Copper shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.0% of BHP Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
BHP Group received 474 more outperform votes than Southern Copper when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.08% of users gave BHP Group an outperform vote while only 56.42% of users gave Southern Copper an outperform vote.
Southern Copper pays an annual dividend of $3.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. BHP Group pays an annual dividend of $2.85 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.1%. Southern Copper pays out 105.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
In the previous week, BHP Group had 25 more articles in the media than Southern Copper. MarketBeat recorded 45 mentions for BHP Group and 20 mentions for Southern Copper. BHP Group's average media sentiment score of 0.64 beat Southern Copper's score of 0.35 indicating that Southern Copper is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Southern Copper has a net margin of 24.51% compared to Southern Copper's net margin of 0.00%. BHP Group's return on equity of 30.85% beat Southern Copper's return on equity.
BHP Group has higher revenue and earnings than Southern Copper.
Southern Copper has a beta of 1.29, indicating that its share price is 29% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BHP Group has a beta of 0.96, indicating that its share price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
BHP Group beats Southern Copper on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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