RIO vs. SCCO, FCX, VALE, BHP, ECL, APD, NEM, DOW, NUE, and AEM
Should you be buying Rio Tinto Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Rio Tinto Group include Southern Copper (SCCO), Freeport-McMoRan (FCX), Vale (VALE), BHP Group (BHP), Ecolab (ECL), Air Products and Chemicals (APD), Newmont (NEM), DOW (DOW), Nucor (NUE), and Agnico Eagle Mines (AEM). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Southern Copper (NYSE:SCCO) and Rio Tinto Group (NYSE:RIO) are both large-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, dividends, community ranking, earnings, media sentiment and risk.
7.9% of Southern Copper shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 19.3% of Rio Tinto Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of Southern Copper shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Southern Copper has a beta of 1.27, suggesting that its stock price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Rio Tinto Group has a beta of 0.68, suggesting that its stock price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Southern Copper pays an annual dividend of $0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.0%. Rio Tinto Group pays an annual dividend of $5.15 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.2%. Southern Copper pays out 1.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Rio Tinto Group has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Rio Tinto Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
In the previous week, Southern Copper had 7 more articles in the media than Rio Tinto Group. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Southern Copper and 6 mentions for Rio Tinto Group. Rio Tinto Group's average media sentiment score of 0.72 beat Southern Copper's score of 0.13 indicating that Southern Copper is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Rio Tinto Group received 1079 more outperform votes than Southern Copper when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.35% of users gave Rio Tinto Group an outperform vote while only 56.30% of users gave Southern Copper an outperform vote.
Southern Copper presently has a consensus target price of $90.33, indicating a potential downside of 25.98%. Rio Tinto Group has a consensus target price of $72.00, indicating a potential upside of 0.21%. Given Southern Copper's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Rio Tinto Group is more favorable than Southern Copper.
Rio Tinto Group has higher revenue and earnings than Southern Copper.
Southern Copper has a net margin of 24.20% compared to Southern Copper's net margin of 0.00%. Rio Tinto Group's return on equity of 30.44% beat Southern Copper's return on equity.
Summary
Rio Tinto Group beats Southern Copper on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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