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Ero Copper (ERO) Competitors

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$14.88 +0.20 (+1.33%)
Closing price 07/23/2025 03:59 PM Eastern
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ERO vs. FCX, HBM, SCCO, TECK, TGB, KNF, NXE, LEU, NGD, and TMC

Should you be buying Ero Copper stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ero Copper include Freeport-McMoRan (FCX), HudBay Minerals (HBM), Southern Copper (SCCO), Teck Resources (TECK), Taseko Mines (TGB), Knife River (KNF), NexGen Energy (NXE), Centrus Energy (LEU), New Gold (NGD), and TMC the metals (TMC).

Ero Copper vs. Its Competitors

Ero Copper (NYSE:ERO) and Freeport-McMoRan (NYSE:FCX) are both basic materials companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, risk, dividends, profitability and analyst recommendations.

Ero Copper has a beta of 1.18, meaning that its share price is 18% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Freeport-McMoRan has a beta of 1.64, meaning that its share price is 64% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Ero Copper presently has a consensus target price of $23.50, indicating a potential upside of 57.98%. Freeport-McMoRan has a consensus target price of $50.71, indicating a potential upside of 13.14%. Given Ero Copper's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Ero Copper is more favorable than Freeport-McMoRan.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Ero Copper
0 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
8 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.83
Freeport-McMoRan
0 Sell rating(s)
7 Hold rating(s)
8 Buy rating(s)
3 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.78

In the previous week, Freeport-McMoRan had 28 more articles in the media than Ero Copper. MarketBeat recorded 39 mentions for Freeport-McMoRan and 11 mentions for Ero Copper. Freeport-McMoRan's average media sentiment score of 1.23 beat Ero Copper's score of 0.53 indicating that Freeport-McMoRan is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Ero Copper
3 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Freeport-McMoRan
29 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
5 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Ero Copper$470.26M3.28-$68.47M$0.1787.50
Freeport-McMoRan$25.46B2.53$1.89B$1.2137.05

71.3% of Ero Copper shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.8% of Freeport-McMoRan shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.8% of Freeport-McMoRan shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Freeport-McMoRan has a net margin of 7.11% compared to Ero Copper's net margin of 3.87%. Ero Copper's return on equity of 14.24% beat Freeport-McMoRan's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Ero Copper3.87% 14.24% 6.44%
Freeport-McMoRan 7.11%7.03%3.68%

Summary

Freeport-McMoRan beats Ero Copper on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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ERO vs. The Competition

MetricEro CopperMINING IndustryMaterials SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$1.52B$13.78B$3.34B$20.89B
Dividend YieldN/A2.31%5.15%3.62%
P/E Ratio87.5131.39107.2927.93
Price / Sales3.2811.2628,760,257,957,374,600.0073.08
Price / Cash10.1415.4923.9422.61
Price / Book1.892.926.104.70
Net Income-$68.47M$418.31M$147.72M$993.85M
7 Day Performance3.06%2.44%2.61%1.99%
1 Month Performance-6.83%13.66%8.25%5.85%
1 Year Performance-21.96%27.68%30.23%13.36%

Ero Copper Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
ERO
Ero Copper
4.1613 of 5 stars
$14.88
+1.3%
$23.50
+58.0%
-24.2%$1.52B$470.26M87.513,374Upcoming Earnings
FCX
Freeport-McMoRan
4.9461 of 5 stars
$45.64
-1.6%
$51.00
+11.7%
-1.0%$65.59B$25.46B37.7228,500Trending News
Earnings Report
Gap Down
HBM
HudBay Minerals
2.9663 of 5 stars
$10.48
0.0%
N/A+27.7%$4.14B$2.09B27.572,803Analyst Revision
SCCO
Southern Copper
2.3896 of 5 stars
$100.06
-1.5%
$91.60
-8.5%
-4.7%$79.67B$11.43B21.9016,133Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
TECK
Teck Resources
4.9238 of 5 stars
$38.36
+0.1%
$63.14
+64.6%
-15.8%$18.53B$6.48B66.157,200Analyst Revision
TGB
Taseko Mines
2.1999 of 5 stars
$3.54
-1.4%
N/A+53.9%$1.12B$600.30M-118.00696
KNF
Knife River
3.1506 of 5 stars
$78.75
-0.2%
$117.17
+48.8%
+2.8%$4.46B$2.90B24.844,761
NXE
NexGen Energy
0.2248 of 5 stars
$6.76
+2.2%
N/A+7.7%$3.86BN/A-42.2760Positive News
LEU
Centrus Energy
2.3069 of 5 stars
$216.27
+4.8%
$175.00
-19.1%
+425.0%$3.68B$471.40M49.04280Analyst Upgrade
Gap Up
NGD
New Gold
2.1202 of 5 stars
$4.61
-1.9%
$4.13
-10.3%
+104.1%$3.65B$941.50M35.461,570
TMC
TMC the metals
1.2567 of 5 stars
$7.28
+10.8%
$6.75
-7.3%
+535.8%$2.64BN/A-31.6530High Trading Volume

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This page (NYSE:ERO) was last updated on 7/24/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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