RIO vs. SCCO, FCX, VALE, BHP, VNTRQ, ECL, APD, NUE, NEM, and DOW
Should you be buying Rio Tinto Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Rio Tinto Group include Southern Copper (SCCO), Freeport-McMoRan (FCX), Vale (VALE), BHP Group (BHP), Venator Materials (VNTRQ), Ecolab (ECL), Air Products and Chemicals (APD), Nucor (NUE), Newmont (NEM), and DOW (DOW). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Southern Copper (NYSE:SCCO) and Rio Tinto Group (NYSE:RIO) are both large-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, earnings, profitability, valuation, community ranking, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and risk.
Southern Copper pays an annual dividend of $3.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. Rio Tinto Group pays an annual dividend of $5.15 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.5%. 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. Rio Tinto Group has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Rio Tinto Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Southern Copper presently has a consensus price target of $76.00, suggesting a potential downside of 35.01%. Rio Tinto Group has a consensus price target of $72.00, suggesting a potential upside of 5.51%. Given Southern Copper's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Rio Tinto Group is more favorable than Southern Copper.
In the previous week, Southern Copper had 12 more articles in the media than Rio Tinto Group. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for Southern Copper and 8 mentions for Rio Tinto Group. Southern Copper's average media sentiment score of 1.07 beat Rio Tinto Group's score of 0.64 indicating that Rio Tinto Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Rio Tinto Group received 1078 more outperform votes than Southern Copper when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.35% of users gave Rio Tinto Group an outperform vote while only 56.42% of users gave Southern Copper an outperform vote.
Southern Copper has a net margin of 24.51% compared to Southern Copper's net margin of 0.00%. Rio Tinto Group's return on equity of 30.85% beat Southern Copper's return on equity.
Southern Copper has a beta of 1.29, indicating that its stock price is 29% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Rio Tinto Group has a beta of 0.7, indicating that its stock price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Rio Tinto Group has higher revenue and earnings than Southern Copper.
7.9% of Southern Copper shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 19.3% of Rio Tinto Group shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of Southern Copper shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Rio Tinto Group beats Southern Copper on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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