Cameco (CCJ) Competitors

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CCJ vs. VALE, TECK, SQM, SUM, KNF, MP, HBM, NXE, NGD, and AESI

Should you be buying Cameco stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cameco include Vale (VALE), Teck Resources (TECK), Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile (SQM), Summit Materials (SUM), Knife River (KNF), MP Materials (MP), Hudbay Minerals (HBM), NexGen Energy (NXE), New Gold (NGD), and Atlas Energy Solutions (AESI). These companies are all part of the "non-metallic and industrial metal mining" industry.

Cameco vs.

Vale (NYSE:VALE) and Cameco (NYSE:CCJ) are both large-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment, dividends, earnings, valuation and community ranking.

Vale pays an annual dividend of $0.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.4%. Cameco pays an annual dividend of $0.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.3%. Vale pays out 42.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Cameco pays out 63.2% 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. Vale is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Vale has a net margin of 22.59% compared to Cameco's net margin of 4.15%. Vale's return on equity of 21.07% beat Cameco's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Vale22.59% 21.07% 9.22%
Cameco 4.15%3.33%2.15%

Vale received 269 more outperform votes than Cameco when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.12% of users gave Cameco an outperform vote while only 60.99% of users gave Vale an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
ValeOutperform Votes
791
60.99%
Underperform Votes
506
39.01%
CamecoOutperform Votes
522
63.12%
Underperform Votes
305
36.88%

Vale has a beta of 0.91, suggesting that its stock price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cameco has a beta of 0.94, suggesting that its stock price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Cameco had 21 more articles in the media than Vale. MarketBeat recorded 32 mentions for Cameco and 11 mentions for Vale. Vale's average media sentiment score of 1.06 beat Cameco's score of 0.67 indicating that Vale is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Vale
8 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Cameco
16 Very Positive mention(s)
3 Positive mention(s)
5 Neutral mention(s)
2 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Vale currently has a consensus price target of $13.26, indicating a potential upside of 35.61%. Cameco has a consensus price target of $66.56, indicating a potential upside of 40.94%. Given Cameco's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Cameco is more favorable than Vale.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Vale
0 Sell rating(s)
7 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.30
Cameco
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
5 Buy rating(s)
2 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.29

Vale has higher revenue and earnings than Cameco. Vale is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cameco, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Vale$41.78B1.06$7.98B$2.164.53
Cameco$1.92B10.72$267.32M$0.19248.56

21.9% of Vale shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.2% of Cameco shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Cameco shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Cameco beats Vale on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.

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CCJ vs. The Competition

MetricCamecometal ores IndustryMaterials SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$20.56B$2.49B$3.14B$20.30B
Dividend Yield0.25%0.25%5.19%3.67%
P/E Ratio248.5641.2996.9345.83
Price / Sales10.722,246.3025,929,608,977,532,900.0016.46
Price / Cash51.0336.4224.4720.33
Price / Book4.543.634.965.73
Net Income$267.32M$20.81M$152.39M$1.00B
7 Day Performance-6.17%-6.23%0.00%0.13%
1 Month Performance-8.51%-14.64%3.26%1.37%
1 Year Performance11.96%-17.77%33.85%16.03%

Cameco Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
CCJ
Cameco
4.3897 of 5 stars
$47.22
-3.8%
$66.56
+40.9%
+12.0%$20.56B$1.92B248.562,100Short Interest ↑
Analyst Revision
VALE
Vale
4.4798 of 5 stars
$9.56
+0.9%
$13.89
+45.4%
-28.3%$43.37B$40.99B4.4266,807Positive News
TECK
Teck Resources
3.8103 of 5 stars
$43.33
+0.7%
$65.38
+50.9%
+11.4%$21.61B$11.12B65.6712,600Upcoming Earnings
Short Interest ↑
SQM
Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile
1.5941 of 5 stars
$38.51
-0.3%
$45.56
+18.3%
-10.9%$11.00B$7.47B-34.697,682Positive News
SUM
Summit Materials
2.9024 of 5 stars
$52.52
+0.1%
$50.54
-3.8%
+26.5%$9.22B$3.75B64.045,300Analyst Forecast
KNF
Knife River
2.1827 of 5 stars
$102.79
+0.2%
$103.75
+0.9%
+46.4%$5.82B$2.89B29.464,389Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
MP
MP Materials
1.458 of 5 stars
$25.11
+4.9%
$22.45
-10.6%
+43.3%$4.09B$253.45M-46.41490Upcoming Earnings
HBM
Hudbay Minerals
3.9808 of 5 stars
$9.72
+4.0%
$11.17
+14.9%
+66.1%$3.84B$1.69B42.242,708Upcoming Earnings
Short Interest ↓
NXE
NexGen Energy
0.4716 of 5 stars
$6.54
+0.1%
N/A-18.4%$3.72BN/A43.6060
NGD
New Gold
2.3582 of 5 stars
$3.12
+3.8%
$3.41
+9.6%
N/A$2.46B$786.50M155.751,570
AESI
Atlas Energy Solutions
4.1026 of 5 stars
$21.57
+2.5%
$25.50
+18.2%
+21.6%$2.38B$613.96M27.30490Positive News

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