CLF vs. BVN, HBM, MP, X, PAAS, FMC, TX, GGB, RGLD, and AXTA
Should you be buying Cleveland-Cliffs stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cleveland-Cliffs include Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A. (BVN), Hudbay Minerals (HBM), MP Materials (MP), United States Steel (X), Pan American Silver (PAAS), FMC (FMC), Ternium (TX), Gerdau (GGB), Royal Gold (RGLD), and Axalta Coating Systems (AXTA). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A. (NYSE:BVN) and Cleveland-Cliffs (NYSE:CLF) are both basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, profitability, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation and community ranking.
In the previous week, Cleveland-Cliffs had 9 more articles in the media than Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A.. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Cleveland-Cliffs and 6 mentions for Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A.. Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A.'s average media sentiment score of 0.47 beat Cleveland-Cliffs' score of 0.30 indicating that Cleveland-Cliffs is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A. has a beta of 0.86, indicating that its stock price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cleveland-Cliffs has a beta of 2.1, indicating that its stock price is 110% more volatile than the S&P 500.
67.7% of Cleveland-Cliffs shares are owned by institutional investors. 19.3% of Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A. shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of Cleveland-Cliffs shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A. currently has a consensus price target of $13.15, suggesting a potential downside of 27.77%. Cleveland-Cliffs has a consensus price target of $20.64, suggesting a potential upside of 21.93%. Given Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A.'s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Cleveland-Cliffs is more favorable than Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A..
Cleveland-Cliffs received 389 more outperform votes than Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A. when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 58.11% of users gave Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A. an outperform vote while only 53.39% of users gave Cleveland-Cliffs an outperform vote.
Cleveland-Cliffs has higher revenue and earnings than Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A.. Cleveland-Cliffs is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A., indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A. pays an annual dividend of $0.07 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.4%. Cleveland-Cliffs pays an annual dividend of $0.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A. pays out 116.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Cleveland-Cliffs pays out 32.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Cleveland-Cliffs is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A. has a net margin of 1.91% compared to Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A.'s net margin of 1.78%. Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A.'s return on equity of 8.69% beat Cleveland-Cliffs' return on equity.
Summary
Cleveland-Cliffs beats Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A. on 15 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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