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GSM vs. MTRN, CMP, SXC, SCCO, FCX, FSM, TMC, PPTA, AMR, and SKE

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), Alpha Metallurgical Resources (AMR), and Skeena Resources (SKE).

Ferroglobe vs. Its Competitors

Ferroglobe (NASDAQ:GSM) and Materion (NYSE:MTRN) are both basic materials companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, risk, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability and valuation.

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 endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

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.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Ferroglobe-6.99% -2.85% -1.51%
Materion 0.94%12.69%6.48%

Ferroglobe has a beta of 1.69, indicating that its share price is 69% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Materion has a beta of 0.91, indicating that its share price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Materion had 6 more articles in the media than Ferroglobe. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Materion and 3 mentions for Ferroglobe. Materion's average media sentiment score of 1.55 beat Ferroglobe's score of 1.31 indicating that Materion is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Ferroglobe
3 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Materion
8 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Very Positive

Ferroglobe pays an annual dividend of $0.06 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Materion pays an annual dividend of $0.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. 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 increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years and Materion has increased its dividend for 13 consecutive years. Ferroglobe is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Materion has a consensus target price of $117.00, indicating a potential upside of 5.54%. Given Materion's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Materion is more favorable than Ferroglobe.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Ferroglobe
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00
Materion
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

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.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Ferroglobe$1.64B0.47$23.54M-$0.57-7.33
Materion$1.68B1.36$5.89M$0.80138.57

Summary

Materion beats Ferroglobe on 14 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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GSM vs. The Competition

MetricFerroglobeMINING IndustryMaterials SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$780.11M$6.42B$3.51B$9.91B
Dividend Yield1.34%1.83%5.07%4.49%
P/E Ratio-7.3316.78156.7226.65
Price / Sales0.47567.4714,628.30163.66
Price / Cash6.0331.9524.2228.92
Price / Book0.965.766.226.52
Net Income$23.54M$292.30M$150.35M$266.21M
7 Day Performance1.21%1.62%2.20%-0.76%
1 Month Performance8.01%10.70%10.85%3.83%
1 Year Performance-2.56%57.12%44.10%24.39%

Ferroglobe Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
GSM
Ferroglobe
2.5529 of 5 stars
$4.18
+0.7%
N/A-3.0%$780.11M$1.64B-7.333,283Positive News
MTRN
Materion
3.9057 of 5 stars
$110.47
-0.4%
$117.00
+5.9%
+2.1%$2.30B$1.68B138.093,037Positive News
CMP
Compass Minerals International
1.2828 of 5 stars
$19.06
-1.0%
$20.00
+4.9%
+133.2%$794.17M$1.12B-6.531,894
SXC
SunCoke Energy
4.5611 of 5 stars
$7.73
+1.8%
$13.00
+68.3%
-10.3%$653.62M$1.94B8.981,168Positive News
SCCO
Southern Copper
2.029 of 5 stars
$96.06
-0.7%
$91.00
-5.3%
+4.9%$77.26B$11.43B21.0216,133News Coverage
Positive News
Analyst Forecast
FCX
Freeport-McMoRan
4.8876 of 5 stars
$44.42
+0.1%
$51.00
+14.8%
+11.6%$63.75B$25.46B33.6528,500Positive News
FSM
Fortuna Mining
2.2727 of 5 stars
$7.72
+3.6%
$8.00
+3.7%
+84.1%$2.36B$1.06B15.432,327Gap Down
TMC
TMC the metals
2.4732 of 5 stars
$5.36
+1.9%
$7.33
+36.8%
+524.3%$2.18BN/A-14.4930
PPTA
Perpetua Resources
2.1109 of 5 stars
$18.87
+2.2%
$22.25
+17.9%
+144.3%$2.03BN/A-60.8730News Coverage
Insider Trade
Gap Down
AMR
Alpha Metallurgical Resources
3.5565 of 5 stars
$149.68
+2.6%
$160.50
+7.2%
-36.4%$1.95B$2.96B-52.524,040News Coverage
Positive News
Short Interest ↓
SKE
Skeena Resources
0.4464 of 5 stars
$16.76
+7.2%
N/A+132.4%$1.92BN/A-15.3760

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This page (NASDAQ:GSM) was last updated on 9/4/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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