MTRN vs. MTX, SLVM, TROX, ERO, CALM, AG, MP, OR, ANDE, and SCL
Should you be buying Materion stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Materion include Minerals Technologies (MTX), Sylvamo (SLVM), Tronox (TROX), Ero Copper (ERO), Cal-Maine Foods (CALM), First Majestic Silver (AG), MP Materials (MP), Osisko Gold Royalties (OR), Andersons (ANDE), and Stepan (SCL). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Materion (NYSE:MTRN) and Minerals Technologies (NYSE:MTX) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, earnings, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking, profitability and dividends.
Materion has a net margin of 5.75% compared to Minerals Technologies' net margin of 4.35%. Materion's return on equity of 13.49% beat Minerals Technologies' return on equity.
Materion pays an annual dividend of $0.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. Minerals Technologies pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. Materion pays out 11.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Minerals Technologies pays out 13.8% 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 higher earnings, but lower revenue than Minerals Technologies. Materion is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Minerals Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Materion has a beta of 1.17, suggesting that its share price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Minerals Technologies has a beta of 1.32, suggesting that its share price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500.
93.6% of Materion shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.3% of Minerals Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.3% of Materion shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.5% of Minerals Technologies shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Materion received 93 more outperform votes than Minerals Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.26% of users gave Materion an outperform vote while only 52.93% of users gave Minerals Technologies an outperform vote.
Materion currently has a consensus target price of $144.50, indicating a potential upside of 25.63%. Minerals Technologies has a consensus target price of $68.50, indicating a potential downside of 7.56%. Given Materion's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Materion is more favorable than Minerals Technologies.
In the previous week, Minerals Technologies had 10 more articles in the media than Materion. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for Minerals Technologies and 10 mentions for Materion. Minerals Technologies' average media sentiment score of 0.68 beat Materion's score of -0.40 indicating that Minerals Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Materion beats Minerals Technologies on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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