SXC vs. MTRN, SLCA, GSM, CMP, SCCO, FCX, MTUS, ASTL, TWI, and PKX
Should you be buying SunCoke Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SunCoke Energy include Materion (MTRN), U.S. Silica (SLCA), Ferroglobe (GSM), Compass Minerals International (CMP), Southern Copper (SCCO), Freeport-McMoRan (FCX), Metallus (MTUS), Algoma Steel Group (ASTL), Titan International (TWI), and POSCO (PKX).
Materion (NYSE:MTRN) and SunCoke Energy (NYSE:SXC) are both basic materials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, community ranking, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, earnings and dividends.
Materion has a net margin of 5.19% compared to Materion's net margin of 2.97%. SunCoke Energy's return on equity of 12.32% beat Materion's return on equity.
Materion currently has a consensus target price of $142.50, indicating a potential upside of 29.30%. SunCoke Energy has a consensus target price of $11.50, indicating a potential upside of 17.95%. Given SunCoke Energy's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Materion is more favorable than SunCoke Energy.
Materion has higher earnings, but lower revenue than SunCoke Energy. SunCoke Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Materion, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
93.6% of Materion shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.5% of SunCoke Energy shares are held by institutional investors. 2.3% of Materion shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of SunCoke Energy shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
SunCoke Energy received 97 more outperform votes than Materion when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.18% of users gave SunCoke Energy an outperform vote while only 61.34% of users gave Materion an outperform vote.
Materion pays an annual dividend of $0.54 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. SunCoke Energy pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.1%. Materion pays out 13.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. SunCoke Energy pays out 56.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Materion has raised its dividend for 11 consecutive years and SunCoke Energy has raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years.
Materion has a beta of 1.21, indicating that its stock price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SunCoke Energy has a beta of 1.15, indicating that its stock price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Materion had 3 more articles in the media than SunCoke Energy. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Materion and 0 mentions for SunCoke Energy. SunCoke Energy's average media sentiment score of 0.58 beat Materion's score of 0.00 indicating that Materion is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Materion beats SunCoke Energy on 17 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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