SCCO vs. FCX, RIO, VALE, BHP, VNTRQ, VNTR, ECL, APD, NEM, and NUE
Should you be buying Southern Copper stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Southern Copper include Freeport-McMoRan (FCX), Rio Tinto Group (RIO), Vale (VALE), BHP Group (BHP), Venator Materials (VNTRQ), Venator Materials (VNTR), Ecolab (ECL), Air Products and Chemicals (APD), Newmont (NEM), and Nucor (NUE). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Freeport-McMoRan (NYSE:FCX) and Southern Copper (NYSE:SCCO) are both large-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, community ranking, profitability, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, earnings and media sentiment.
80.8% of Freeport-McMoRan shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 7.9% of Southern Copper shares are held by institutional investors. 0.8% of Freeport-McMoRan shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Southern Copper shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Freeport-McMoRan presently has a consensus price target of $50.07, suggesting a potential downside of 4.46%. Southern Copper has a consensus price target of $76.00, suggesting a potential downside of 37.11%. Given Southern Copper's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Freeport-McMoRan is more favorable than Southern Copper.
Freeport-McMoRan pays an annual dividend of $0.30 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Southern Copper pays an annual dividend of $3.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. Freeport-McMoRan pays out 26.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. 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.
Freeport-McMoRan has a beta of 2.04, suggesting that its stock price is 104% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Southern Copper has a beta of 1.29, suggesting that its stock price is 29% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Freeport-McMoRan had 37 more articles in the media than Southern Copper. MarketBeat recorded 57 mentions for Freeport-McMoRan and 20 mentions for Southern Copper. Southern Copper's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Freeport-McMoRan's score of 0.64 indicating that Freeport-McMoRan is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Freeport-McMoRan received 714 more outperform votes than Southern Copper when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.53% of users gave Freeport-McMoRan an outperform vote while only 56.42% of users gave Southern Copper an outperform vote.
Southern Copper has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Freeport-McMoRan. Southern Copper is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Freeport-McMoRan, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Southern Copper has a net margin of 24.20% compared to Southern Copper's net margin of 6.97%. Freeport-McMoRan's return on equity of 30.29% beat Southern Copper's return on equity.
Summary
Freeport-McMoRan beats Southern Copper on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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