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Aura Minerals (AUGO) Competitors

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$36.66 -3.30 (-8.26%)
As of 10/17/2025 04:00 PM Eastern

AUGO vs. SQM, LEU, HBM, NGD, NXE, KNF, TMC, TTAM, ERO, and IPX

Should you be buying Aura Minerals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Aura Minerals include Sociedad Quimica y Minera (SQM), Centrus Energy (LEU), HudBay Minerals (HBM), New Gold (NGD), NexGen Energy (NXE), Knife River (KNF), TMC the metals (TMC), Titan America (TTAM), Ero Copper (ERO), and IperionX (IPX). These companies are all part of the "non-metallic and industrial metal mining" industry.

Aura Minerals vs. Its Competitors

Aura Minerals (NASDAQ:AUGO) and Sociedad Quimica y Minera (NYSE:SQM) are both basic materials companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, risk, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, institutional ownership, dividends and earnings.

Sociedad Quimica y Minera has higher revenue and earnings than Aura Minerals. Aura Minerals is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sociedad Quimica y Minera, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Aura Minerals$594.16M5.10-$30.27M-$0.82-44.71
Sociedad Quimica y Minera$4.53B2.76$685.12M$1.6726.22

Sociedad Quimica y Minera has a net margin of 11.29% compared to Aura Minerals' net margin of -8.88%. Aura Minerals' return on equity of 71.90% beat Sociedad Quimica y Minera's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Aura Minerals-8.88% 71.90% 12.14%
Sociedad Quimica y Minera 11.29%9.09%4.17%

Aura Minerals presently has a consensus price target of $45.80, suggesting a potential upside of 24.93%. Sociedad Quimica y Minera has a consensus price target of $45.79, suggesting a potential upside of 4.57%. Given Aura Minerals' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Aura Minerals is more favorable than Sociedad Quimica y Minera.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Aura Minerals
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
Sociedad Quimica y Minera
2 Sell rating(s)
4 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.11

In the previous week, Aura Minerals had 14 more articles in the media than Sociedad Quimica y Minera. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for Aura Minerals and 2 mentions for Sociedad Quimica y Minera. Sociedad Quimica y Minera's average media sentiment score of 1.25 beat Aura Minerals' score of 0.67 indicating that Sociedad Quimica y Minera is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Aura Minerals
4 Very Positive mention(s)
4 Positive mention(s)
4 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Sociedad Quimica y Minera
2 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

12.4% of Sociedad Quimica y Minera shares are held by institutional investors. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

Sociedad Quimica y Minera beats Aura Minerals on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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AUGO vs. The Competition

MetricAura Minerals IndustryMaterials SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$3.03B$2.48B$3.78B$10.56B
Dividend Yield3.60%13.87%5.05%4.84%
P/E Ratio-44.7125.79151.3522.90
Price / Sales5.106,366.2623,957.71132.51
Price / CashN/A20.7324.3430.35
Price / BookN/A3.247.186.58
Net Income-$30.27M-$331.88M$148.76M$276.84M
7 Day Performance-0.73%0.88%45.43%1.93%
1 Month Performance14.67%0.29%52.54%2.19%
1 Year PerformanceN/A12.71%74.73%34.62%

Aura Minerals Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
AUGO
Aura Minerals
3.4291 of 5 stars
$36.66
-8.3%
$45.80
+24.9%
N/A$3.03B$594.16M-44.711,394News Coverage
Analyst Forecast
Short Interest ↑
Gap Down
High Trading Volume
SQM
Sociedad Quimica y Minera
2.1365 of 5 stars
$40.86
-5.5%
$45.79
+12.1%
+12.0%$11.65B$4.53B24.478,344News Coverage
Positive News
High Trading Volume
LEU
Centrus Energy
1.8571 of 5 stars
$363.71
-2.0%
$202.09
-44.4%
+286.3%$6.76B$436.90M82.47280Positive News
Gap Down
High Trading Volume
HBM
HudBay Minerals
4.0435 of 5 stars
$16.58
-3.0%
N/A+73.1%$6.56B$2.02B22.712,803News Coverage
Analyst Forecast
Short Interest ↓
Analyst Revision
NGD
New Gold
2.9192 of 5 stars
$6.84
+0.3%
$5.81
-15.1%
+130.5%$5.42B$1.03B52.621,570News Coverage
Positive News
NXE
NexGen Energy
0.3685 of 5 stars
$8.76
-0.1%
N/A+1.3%$5.04BN/A-35.0360News Coverage
Positive News
Gap Up
KNF
Knife River
3.771 of 5 stars
$67.36
+1.4%
$106.83
+58.6%
-30.6%$3.82B$2.90B25.044,761News Coverage
TMC
TMC the metals
1.7193 of 5 stars
$8.89
-5.2%
$7.33
-17.5%
+702.9%$3.61BN/A-24.0330Analyst Downgrade
Gap Up
TTAM
Titan America
1.2646 of 5 stars
$14.63
-1.5%
$17.07
+16.7%
N/A$2.70B$1.63B0.002,742News Coverage
Positive News
Dividend Announcement
ERO
Ero Copper
2.7313 of 5 stars
$21.37
-5.3%
$19.00
-11.1%
+12.4%$2.21B$470.26M15.603,374Analyst Downgrade
Options Volume
Analyst Revision
IPX
IperionX
0.9147 of 5 stars
$54.29
-1.9%
$51.00
-6.1%
N/A$1.82BN/A0.00N/A

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