BHP vs. HL, HAN, AAU, MMX, PVG, SND, HCL, FQM, ENRT, and RIO
Should you be buying BHP Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BHP Group include Hargreaves Lansdown (HL), Hansa Investment (HAN), Ariana Resources (AAU), Minds and Machines Group (MMX), Premier Veterinary Group plc (PVG.L) (PVG), Sondrel (SND), 6786 (HCL.L) (HCL), 7545 (FQM.L) (FQM), Environmental Recycling Technologies (ENRT), and Rio Tinto Group (RIO).
BHP Group vs. Its Competitors
Hargreaves Lansdown (LON:HL) and BHP Group (LON:BHP) are both non-metallic and industrial metal mining companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends and risk.
66.7% of Hargreaves Lansdown shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 48.2% of BHP Group shares are held by institutional investors. 29.4% of Hargreaves Lansdown shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.6% of BHP Group shares are held 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.
Hargreaves Lansdown has a beta of 0.66, suggesting that its stock price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BHP Group has a beta of 0.84, suggesting that its stock price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Hargreaves Lansdown pays an annual dividend of GBX 43 per share. BHP Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 113 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.9%. Hargreaves Lansdown pays out 6,935.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. BHP Group pays out 91.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. BHP Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Hargreaves Lansdown has a net margin of 82.61% compared to BHP Group's net margin of 14.09%. Hargreaves Lansdown's return on equity of 82.68% beat BHP Group's return on equity.
BHP Group has a consensus price target of GBX 2,126.67, suggesting a potential upside of 10.30%. Given BHP Group's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe BHP Group is more favorable than Hargreaves Lansdown.
In the previous week, BHP Group had 9 more articles in the media than Hargreaves Lansdown. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for BHP Group and 0 mentions for Hargreaves Lansdown. BHP Group's average media sentiment score of 0.13 beat Hargreaves Lansdown's score of 0.00 indicating that BHP Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
BHP Group has higher revenue and earnings than Hargreaves Lansdown. Hargreaves Lansdown is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BHP Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
BHP Group beats Hargreaves Lansdown on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:BHP) was last updated on 7/18/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff