SUM vs. TECK, SQM, MDU, KNF, HL, USLM, SLCA, UUUU, LEU, and CMP Should you be buying Summit Materials stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Summit Materials include Teck Resources (TECK), Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile (SQM), MDU Resources Group (MDU), Knife River (KNF), Hecla Mining (HL), United States Lime & Minerals (USLM), U.S. Silica (SLCA), Energy Fuels (UUUU), Centrus Energy (LEU), and Compass Minerals International (CMP). These companies are all part of the "mining & quarrying of nonmetallic minerals, except fuels" industry.
Teck Resources (NYSE:TECK ) and Summit Materials (NYSE:SUM ) are both basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, earnings, dividends and institutional ownership.
Teck Resources has a net margin of 10.59% compared to Teck Resources' net margin of 8.36%. Summit Materials' return on equity of 7.52% beat Teck Resources' return on equity.
Teck Resources has a beta of 1.08, meaning that its stock price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Summit Materials has a beta of 1.27, meaning that its stock price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Teck Resources has higher revenue and earnings than Summit Materials. Summit Materials is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Teck Resources, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Teck Resources currently has a consensus target price of $50.00, indicating a potential upside of 1.69%. Summit Materials has a consensus target price of $46.92, indicating a potential upside of 24.38%. Given Teck Resources' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Summit Materials is more favorable than Teck Resources.
78.1% of Teck Resources shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of Teck Resources shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Summit Materials shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Teck Resources received 385 more outperform votes than Summit Materials when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.42% of users gave Summit Materials an outperform vote while only 59.66% of users gave Teck Resources an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Teck Resources had 4 more articles in the media than Summit Materials. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Teck Resources and 5 mentions for Summit Materials. Teck Resources' average media sentiment score of 1.75 beat Summit Materials' score of 1.22 indicating that Summit Materials is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary Teck Resources beats Summit Materials on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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