GSM vs. MTRN, SXC, CMP, SCCO, FCX, NGD, SGML, MTAL, NEXA, and LAC
Should you be buying Ferroglobe stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ferroglobe include Materion (MTRN), SunCoke Energy (SXC), Compass Minerals International (CMP), Southern Copper (SCCO), Freeport-McMoRan (FCX), New Gold (NGD), Sigma Lithium (SGML), Metals Acquisition (MTAL), Nexa Resources (NEXA), and Lithium Americas (LAC).
Ferroglobe vs.
Materion (NYSE:MTRN) and Ferroglobe (NASDAQ:GSM) are both basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, valuation, earnings and profitability.
Materion has a net margin of 4.45% compared to Ferroglobe's net margin of 2.74%. Materion's return on equity of 12.06% beat Ferroglobe's return on equity.
Materion pays an annual dividend of $0.54 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. Ferroglobe pays an annual dividend of $0.05 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Materion pays out 15.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Ferroglobe pays out 20.8% 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 increased its dividend for 12 consecutive years.
Materion currently has a consensus target price of $152.00, indicating a potential upside of 46.81%. Given Materion's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Materion is more favorable than Ferroglobe.
Materion has a beta of 1.23, meaning that its stock price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ferroglobe has a beta of 1.83, meaning that its stock price is 83% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Materion had 1 more articles in the media than Ferroglobe. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Materion and 6 mentions for Ferroglobe. Materion's average media sentiment score of 0.35 beat Ferroglobe's score of 0.10 indicating that Materion is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Ferroglobe received 261 more outperform votes than Materion when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.36% of users gave Ferroglobe an outperform vote while only 61.06% of users gave Materion an outperform vote.
93.6% of Materion shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.6% of Ferroglobe shares are held by institutional investors. 2.6% of Materion shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 13.1% of Ferroglobe shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Materion has higher revenue and earnings than Ferroglobe. Ferroglobe is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Materion, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Materion beats Ferroglobe on 16 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:GSM) was last updated on 2/19/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff