CCJ vs. TECK, SQM, NXE, MP, AESI, ERO, NGD, EU, MTAL, and LAAC
Should you be buying Cameco stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cameco include Teck Resources (TECK), Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile (SQM), NexGen Energy (NXE), MP Materials (MP), Atlas Energy Solutions (AESI), Ero Copper (ERO), New Gold (NGD), enCore Energy (EU), Metals Acquisition (MTAL), and Lithium Americas (Argentina) (LAAC). These companies are all part of the "non-metallic and industrial metal mining" industry.
Teck Resources (NYSE:TECK) and Cameco (NYSE:CCJ) are both large-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, earnings, media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking and risk.
Teck Resources has a net margin of 9.40% compared to Teck Resources' net margin of 9.28%. Cameco's return on equity of 6.61% beat Teck Resources' return on equity.
Teck Resources has higher revenue and earnings than Cameco. Teck Resources is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cameco, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Teck Resources has a beta of 1.05, meaning that its stock price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cameco has a beta of 0.91, meaning that its stock price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Teck Resources pays an annual dividend of $0.37 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Cameco pays an annual dividend of $0.09 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.2%. Teck Resources pays out 16.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Cameco pays out 23.1% 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. Teck Resources is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Teck Resources received 285 more outperform votes than Cameco when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.90% of users gave Cameco an outperform vote while only 59.72% of users gave Teck Resources an outperform vote.
Teck Resources currently has a consensus price target of $57.33, indicating a potential upside of 20.83%. Cameco has a consensus price target of $45.70, indicating a potential upside of 1.15%. Given Cameco's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Teck Resources is more favorable than Cameco.
In the previous week, Teck Resources had 4 more articles in the media than Cameco. MarketBeat recorded 24 mentions for Teck Resources and 20 mentions for Cameco. Teck Resources' average media sentiment score of 0.62 beat Cameco's score of 0.55 indicating that Cameco is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
78.1% of Teck Resources shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.2% of Cameco shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of Teck Resources shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Cameco shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Teck Resources beats Cameco on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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