HBM vs. MP, GSM, LAAC, CRML, MTAL, CLF, MTRN, TROX, SXT, and OR
Should you be buying Hudbay Minerals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hudbay Minerals include MP Materials (MP), Ferroglobe (GSM), Lithium Americas (Argentina) (LAAC), Critical Metals (CRML), Metals Acquisition (MTAL), Cleveland-Cliffs (CLF), Materion (MTRN), Tronox (TROX), Sensient Technologies (SXT), and Osisko Gold Royalties (OR). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Hudbay Minerals (NYSE:HBM) and MP Materials (NYSE:MP) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, valuation, community ranking, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, risk and analyst recommendations.
Hudbay Minerals has a beta of 1.95, indicating that its share price is 95% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MP Materials has a beta of 2.41, indicating that its share price is 141% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Hudbay Minerals presently has a consensus price target of $9.75, suggesting a potential upside of 12.98%. MP Materials has a consensus price target of $23.64, suggesting a potential upside of 47.77%. Given MP Materials' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe MP Materials is more favorable than Hudbay Minerals.
57.8% of Hudbay Minerals shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 52.6% of MP Materials shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of Hudbay Minerals shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 33.9% of MP Materials shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Hudbay Minerals had 13 more articles in the media than MP Materials. MarketBeat recorded 24 mentions for Hudbay Minerals and 11 mentions for MP Materials. Hudbay Minerals' average media sentiment score of 0.31 beat MP Materials' score of 0.03 indicating that Hudbay Minerals is being referred to more favorably in the media.
MP Materials has a net margin of 9.59% compared to Hudbay Minerals' net margin of 3.95%.
Hudbay Minerals received 471 more outperform votes than MP Materials when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.11% of users gave MP Materials an outperform vote while only 60.28% of users gave Hudbay Minerals an outperform vote.
Hudbay Minerals has higher revenue and earnings than MP Materials. Hudbay Minerals is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than MP Materials, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Hudbay Minerals beats MP Materials on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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