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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.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Materion4.45% 12.06% 6.03%
Ferroglobe 2.74%7.55%3.95%

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.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Materion
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
Ferroglobe
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00

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.

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

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.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
MaterionOutperform Votes
312
61.06%
Underperform Votes
199
38.94%
FerroglobeOutperform Votes
573
71.36%
Underperform Votes
230
28.64%

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.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Materion$1.67B1.29$95.70M$3.5529.16
Ferroglobe$1.65B0.43$82.66M$0.2415.92

Summary

Materion beats Ferroglobe on 16 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.

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GSM vs. The Competition

MetricFerroglobeMetal mining IndustryMaterials SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$717.70M$7.28B$3.14B$9.21B
Dividend Yield1.27%3.89%5.18%3.99%
P/E Ratio15.928.9999.8519.34
Price / Sales0.4363.1225,844,173,692,507,000.0079.91
Price / Cash3.6821.1224.3637.93
Price / Book0.833.604.905.19
Net Income$82.66M$605.28M$151.79M$246.13M
7 Day Performance-7.51%-0.75%1.69%1.88%
1 Month Performance-6.14%4.35%4.33%1.35%
1 Year Performance-28.20%26.51%33.37%15.86%

Ferroglobe Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
GSM
Ferroglobe
4.2701 of 5 stars
$3.82
-0.8%
N/A-27.6%$717.70M$1.65B15.923,403
MTRN
Materion
4.4903 of 5 stars
$100.86
+1.5%
$152.00
+50.7%
-27.7%$2.09B$1.67B28.413,404Earnings Report
News Coverage
SXC
SunCoke Energy
3.1984 of 5 stars
$9.79
+3.0%
$13.00
+32.9%
-12.7%$822.84M$1.94B8.741,151Positive News
Gap Up
CMP
Compass Minerals International
3.262 of 5 stars
$12.13
+0.6%
$20.50
+69.1%
-47.7%$502.87M$1.12B-2.331,894Short Interest ↓
SCCO
Southern Copper
2.7048 of 5 stars
$96.99
+0.3%
$94.81
-2.2%
+16.3%$76.19B$9.90B24.9715,810Earnings Report
FCX
Freeport-McMoRan
4.979 of 5 stars
$38.47
+0.6%
$51.46
+33.8%
+1.1%$55.27B$25.46B29.8227,200Positive News
NGD
New Gold
3.437 of 5 stars
$3.14
+4.7%
$3.41
+8.7%
N/A$2.48B$786.50M157.001,570
SGML
Sigma Lithium
2.4034 of 5 stars
$11.08
-1.2%
$18.00
+62.5%
-24.9%$1.23B$134.24M-23.08250
MTAL
Metals Acquisition
2.6349 of 5 stars
$11.31
+3.3%
$14.75
+30.5%
-7.6%$837.36M$159M0.002,021
NEXA
Nexa Resources
4.0233 of 5 stars
$5.79
-1.9%
$7.16
+23.7%
-23.1%$766.70M$2.57B-3.835,771
LAC
Lithium Americas
1.6218 of 5 stars
$2.97
-2.1%
$5.51
+85.9%
-33.4%$654.32MN/A-24.71749News Coverage
Positive News

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This page (NASDAQ:GSM) was last updated on 2/19/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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