TECK vs. SQM, NTR, WPM, FNV, GOLD, PPG, CCJ, STLD, DD, and MT
Should you be buying Teck Resources stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Teck Resources include Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile (SQM), Nutrien (NTR), Wheaton Precious Metals (WPM), Franco-Nevada (FNV), Barrick Gold (GOLD), PPG Industries (PPG), Cameco (CCJ), Steel Dynamics (STLD), DuPont de Nemours (DD), and ArcelorMittal (MT). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile (NYSE:SQM) and Teck Resources (NYSE:TECK) are both large-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, profitability, earnings, media sentiment, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership and community ranking.
Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile presently has a consensus target price of $65.18, indicating a potential upside of 36.23%. Teck Resources has a consensus target price of $50.00, indicating a potential downside of 7.05%. Given Teck Resources' higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile is more favorable than Teck Resources.
Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile pays an annual dividend of $0.55 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Teck Resources pays an annual dividend of $0.37 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile pays out 7.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Teck Resources pays out 16.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Teck Resources has higher revenue and earnings than Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile. Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Teck Resources, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile has a beta of 1.1, meaning that its share price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Teck Resources has a beta of 1.12, meaning that its share price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile has a net margin of 26.95% compared to Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile's net margin of 10.59%. Teck Resources' return on equity of 39.90% beat Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile's return on equity.
Teck Resources received 430 more outperform votes than Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.66% of users gave Teck Resources an outperform vote while only 56.46% of users gave Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Teck Resources had 5 more articles in the media than Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Teck Resources and 4 mentions for Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile. Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile's average media sentiment score of 0.82 beat Teck Resources' score of 0.59 indicating that Teck Resources is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
12.4% of Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.1% of Teck Resources shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of Teck Resources shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Teck Resources beats Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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