GSM vs. MTRN, CMP, SXC, SCCO, FCX, FSM, TMC, PPTA, SKE, and AMR
Should you be buying Ferroglobe stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ferroglobe include Materion (MTRN), Compass Minerals International (CMP), SunCoke Energy (SXC), Southern Copper (SCCO), Freeport-McMoRan (FCX), Fortuna Mining (FSM), TMC the metals (TMC), Perpetua Resources (PPTA), Skeena Resources (SKE), and Alpha Metallurgical Resources (AMR).
Ferroglobe vs. Its Competitors
Ferroglobe (NASDAQ:GSM) and Materion (NYSE:MTRN) are both basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, profitability, valuation, risk, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
Ferroglobe has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Materion. Ferroglobe is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Materion, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Ferroglobe pays an annual dividend of $0.06 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Materion pays an annual dividend of $0.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.4%. Ferroglobe pays out -10.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Materion pays out 70.0% 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. Ferroglobe has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years and Materion has raised its dividend for 13 consecutive years. Ferroglobe is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
89.6% of Ferroglobe shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.6% of Materion shares are owned by institutional investors. 13.1% of Ferroglobe shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.6% of Materion shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Ferroglobe has a beta of 1.85, indicating that its stock price is 85% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Materion has a beta of 0.91, indicating that its stock price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Materion has a consensus price target of $117.00, suggesting a potential downside of 6.02%. Given Materion's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Materion is more favorable than Ferroglobe.
Materion has a net margin of 0.94% compared to Ferroglobe's net margin of -6.99%. Materion's return on equity of 12.69% beat Ferroglobe's return on equity.
In the previous week, Materion had 2 more articles in the media than Ferroglobe. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Materion and 2 mentions for Ferroglobe. Ferroglobe's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Materion's score of 0.35 indicating that Ferroglobe is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Materion beats Ferroglobe on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:GSM) was last updated on 10/4/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff