HBM vs. CLF, MP, NGD, SGML, GSM, CRML, MTAL, LAC, LAAC, and TMC
Should you be buying Hudbay Minerals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hudbay Minerals include Cleveland-Cliffs (CLF), MP Materials (MP), New Gold (NGD), Sigma Lithium (SGML), Ferroglobe (GSM), Critical Metals (CRML), Metals Acquisition (MTAL), Lithium Americas (LAC), Lithium Americas (Argentina) (LAAC), and TMC the metals (TMC). These companies are all part of the "metal mining" industry.
Hudbay Minerals (NYSE:HBM) and Cleveland-Cliffs (NYSE:CLF) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, risk, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking, dividends and earnings.
Hudbay Minerals currently has a consensus target price of $10.21, suggesting a potential upside of 12.43%. Cleveland-Cliffs has a consensus target price of $20.64, suggesting a potential upside of 30.57%. Given Cleveland-Cliffs' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Cleveland-Cliffs is more favorable than Hudbay Minerals.
Hudbay Minerals has a beta of 1.83, indicating that its share price is 83% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cleveland-Cliffs has a beta of 2.08, indicating that its share price is 108% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Cleveland-Cliffs had 1 more articles in the media than Hudbay Minerals. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Cleveland-Cliffs and 6 mentions for Hudbay Minerals. Cleveland-Cliffs' average media sentiment score of 1.03 beat Hudbay Minerals' score of 0.32 indicating that Cleveland-Cliffs is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Cleveland-Cliffs received 184 more outperform votes than Hudbay Minerals when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.23% of users gave Hudbay Minerals an outperform vote while only 53.39% of users gave Cleveland-Cliffs an outperform vote.
57.8% of Hudbay Minerals shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 67.7% of Cleveland-Cliffs shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of Hudbay Minerals shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of Cleveland-Cliffs 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.
Cleveland-Cliffs has higher revenue and earnings than Hudbay Minerals. Cleveland-Cliffs is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hudbay Minerals, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Hudbay Minerals has a net margin of 4.36% compared to Cleveland-Cliffs' net margin of 1.78%. Cleveland-Cliffs' return on equity of 8.69% beat Hudbay Minerals' return on equity.
Summary
Cleveland-Cliffs beats Hudbay Minerals on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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