FCX vs. SCCO, RIO, VALE, BHP, VNTRQ, VNTR, ECL, APD, NUE, and NEM
Should you be buying Freeport-McMoRan stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Freeport-McMoRan include Southern Copper (SCCO), Rio Tinto Group (RIO), Vale (VALE), BHP Group (BHP), Venator Materials (VNTRQ), Venator Materials (VNTR), Ecolab (ECL), Air Products and Chemicals (APD), Nucor (NUE), and Newmont (NEM). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Freeport-McMoRan (NYSE:FCX) and Southern Copper (NYSE:SCCO) are both large-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, valuation, dividends, community ranking and profitability.
Freeport-McMoRan has a beta of 2.04, suggesting that its share price is 104% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Southern Copper has a beta of 1.29, suggesting that its share price is 29% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Freeport-McMoRan received 710 more outperform votes than Southern Copper when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.51% of users gave Freeport-McMoRan an outperform vote while only 56.44% of users gave Southern Copper an outperform vote.
Freeport-McMoRan pays an annual dividend of $0.30 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Southern Copper pays an annual dividend of $3.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. Freeport-McMoRan pays out 23.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Southern Copper pays out 101.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
80.8% of Freeport-McMoRan shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 7.9% of Southern Copper shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.8% of Freeport-McMoRan shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Southern Copper 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.
Southern Copper has a net margin of 24.51% compared to Freeport-McMoRan's net margin of 8.09%. Southern Copper's return on equity of 30.85% beat Freeport-McMoRan's return on equity.
Southern Copper has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Freeport-McMoRan. Southern Copper is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Freeport-McMoRan, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Freeport-McMoRan presently has a consensus target price of $47.54, suggesting a potential downside of 5.22%. Southern Copper has a consensus target price of $73.71, suggesting a potential downside of 36.10%. Given Freeport-McMoRan's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Freeport-McMoRan is more favorable than Southern Copper.
In the previous week, Freeport-McMoRan had 7 more articles in the media than Southern Copper. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Freeport-McMoRan and 10 mentions for Southern Copper. Southern Copper's average media sentiment score of 0.85 beat Freeport-McMoRan's score of 0.72 indicating that Southern Copper is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Freeport-McMoRan beats Southern Copper on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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