HBM vs. MP, NGD, GSM, LAC, LAAC, CRML, CLF, TROX, OR, and EGO
Should you be buying Hudbay Minerals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hudbay Minerals include MP Materials (MP), New Gold (NGD), Ferroglobe (GSM), Lithium Americas (LAC), Lithium Americas (Argentina) (LAAC), Critical Metals (CRML), Cleveland-Cliffs (CLF), Tronox (TROX), Osisko Gold Royalties (OR), and Eldorado Gold (EGO). 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 contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, dividends, valuation, community ranking, risk, media sentiment, profitability and institutional ownership.
MP Materials presently has a consensus price target of $23.64, suggesting a potential upside of 28.35%. Hudbay Minerals has a consensus price target of $10.21, suggesting a potential upside of 1.74%. Given Hudbay Minerals' higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe MP Materials is more favorable than Hudbay Minerals.
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.
In the previous week, Hudbay Minerals had 8 more articles in the media than MP Materials. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Hudbay Minerals and 7 mentions for MP Materials. Hudbay Minerals' average media sentiment score of 0.40 beat MP Materials' score of 0.16 indicating that MP Materials is being referred to more favorably in the media.
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 endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Hudbay Minerals received 469 more outperform votes than MP Materials when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.95% of users gave MP Materials an outperform vote while only 60.14% of users gave Hudbay Minerals an outperform vote.
MP Materials has a beta of 2.31, indicating that its share price is 131% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hudbay Minerals has a beta of 1.88, indicating that its share price is 88% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Hudbay Minerals has a net margin of 3.95% compared to Hudbay Minerals' net margin of 1.62%. MP Materials' return on equity of 3.86% beat Hudbay Minerals' return on equity.
Summary
Hudbay Minerals beats MP Materials on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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