MTRN vs. SLCA, GSM, SXC, CMP, SCCO, FCX, TRS, MEC, PKOH, and MOS
Should you be buying Materion stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Materion include U.S. Silica (SLCA), Ferroglobe (GSM), SunCoke Energy (SXC), Compass Minerals International (CMP), Southern Copper (SCCO), Freeport-McMoRan (FCX), TriMas (TRS), Mayville Engineering (MEC), Park-Ohio (PKOH), and Mosaic (MOS).
U.S. Silica (NYSE:SLCA) and Materion (NYSE:MTRN) are both basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, risk, profitability, earnings and media sentiment.
87.8% of U.S. Silica shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.6% of Materion shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.6% of U.S. Silica shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.6% of Materion shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
U.S. Silica has a net margin of 8.08% compared to U.S. Silica's net margin of 5.19%. Materion's return on equity of 13.77% beat U.S. Silica's return on equity.
U.S. Silica currently has a consensus target price of $15.25, indicating a potential downside of 0.97%. Materion has a consensus target price of $142.50, indicating a potential upside of 32.25%. Given U.S. Silica's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Materion is more favorable than U.S. Silica.
U.S. Silica has a beta of 2.03, indicating that its stock price is 103% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Materion has a beta of 1.21, indicating that its stock price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500.
U.S. Silica received 556 more outperform votes than Materion when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.91% of users gave U.S. Silica an outperform vote while only 61.34% of users gave Materion an outperform vote.
U.S. Silica has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Materion. U.S. Silica is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Materion, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, U.S. Silica had 8 more articles in the media than Materion. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for U.S. Silica and 0 mentions for Materion. U.S. Silica's average media sentiment score of 1.54 beat Materion's score of 0.47 indicating that Materion is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Materion beats U.S. Silica on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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