ERO vs. AG, CDE, MTRN, SCL, NGVT, ANDE, IAG, MTX, SAND, and HWKN
Should you be buying Ero Copper stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ero Copper include First Majestic Silver (AG), Coeur Mining (CDE), Materion (MTRN), Stepan (SCL), Ingevity (NGVT), Andersons (ANDE), IAMGOLD (IAG), Minerals Technologies (MTX), Sandstorm Gold (SAND), and Hawkins (HWKN). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
First Majestic Silver (NYSE:AG) and Ero Copper (NYSE:ERO) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, risk, community ranking, media sentiment and valuation.
In the previous week, First Majestic Silver had 4 more articles in the media than Ero Copper. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for First Majestic Silver and 11 mentions for Ero Copper. First Majestic Silver's average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat Ero Copper's score of 0.20 indicating that Ero Copper is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
27.2% of First Majestic Silver shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 71.3% of Ero Copper shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.9% of First Majestic Silver shares are owned by company 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.
Ero Copper has a net margin of 14.23% compared to Ero Copper's net margin of -9.18%. First Majestic Silver's return on equity of 11.86% beat Ero Copper's return on equity.
First Majestic Silver has a beta of 1.39, suggesting that its stock price is 39% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ero Copper has a beta of 1.21, suggesting that its stock price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Ero Copper has lower revenue, but higher earnings than First Majestic Silver. First Majestic Silver is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ero Copper, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
First Majestic Silver received 431 more outperform votes than Ero Copper when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.74% of users gave First Majestic Silver an outperform vote while only 15.00% of users gave Ero Copper an outperform vote.
First Majestic Silver currently has a consensus target price of $15.75, indicating a potential upside of 121.83%. Ero Copper has a consensus target price of $24.00, indicating a potential upside of 12.41%. Given Ero Copper's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe First Majestic Silver is more favorable than Ero Copper.
Summary
Ero Copper beats First Majestic Silver on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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