MP vs. HBM, NGD, GSM, LAC, LAAC, CRML, CLF, OR, CALM, and TROX
Should you be buying MP Materials stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MP Materials include Hudbay Minerals (HBM), New Gold (NGD), Ferroglobe (GSM), Lithium Americas (LAC), Lithium Americas (Argentina) (LAAC), Critical Metals (CRML), Cleveland-Cliffs (CLF), Osisko Gold Royalties (OR), Cal-Maine Foods (CALM), and Tronox (TROX). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
MP Materials (NYSE:MP) and Hudbay Minerals (NYSE:HBM) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, earnings, risk and community ranking.
Hudbay Minerals has higher revenue and earnings than MP Materials. MP Materials is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hudbay Minerals, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
MP Materials currently has a consensus price target of $23.64, indicating a potential upside of 47.31%. Hudbay Minerals has a consensus price target of $10.21, indicating a potential upside of 17.95%. Given MP Materials' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe MP Materials is more favorable than Hudbay Minerals.
Hudbay Minerals has a net margin of 3.95% compared to MP Materials' net margin of 1.62%. Hudbay Minerals' return on equity of 3.86% beat MP Materials' return on equity.
52.6% of MP Materials shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 57.8% of Hudbay Minerals shares are held by institutional investors. 33.9% of MP Materials shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Hudbay Minerals shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
MP Materials has a beta of 2.31, indicating that its stock price is 131% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hudbay Minerals has a beta of 1.88, indicating that its stock price is 88% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, MP Materials had 7 more articles in the media than Hudbay Minerals. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for MP Materials and 9 mentions for Hudbay Minerals. Hudbay Minerals' average media sentiment score of 0.72 beat MP Materials' score of -0.01 indicating that Hudbay Minerals is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Hudbay Minerals received 470 more outperform votes than MP Materials when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.53% of users gave MP Materials an outperform vote while only 60.21% of users gave Hudbay Minerals an outperform vote.
Summary
Hudbay Minerals beats MP Materials on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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