HBM vs. GSM, NGD, AMLI, PVG, LAC, MP, SA, PLL, CGAU, and RYI
Should you be buying Hudbay Minerals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hudbay Minerals include Ferroglobe (GSM), New Gold (NGD), American Lithium (AMLI), Pretium Resources (PVG), Lithium Americas (LAC), MP Materials (MP), Seabridge Gold (SA), Piedmont Lithium (PLL), Centerra Gold (CGAU), and Ryerson (RYI). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Hudbay Minerals vs.
Hudbay Minerals (NYSE:HBM) and Ferroglobe (NASDAQ:GSM) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings and media sentiment.
Hudbay Minerals has a beta of 1.96, indicating that its stock price is 96% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ferroglobe has a beta of 2.22, indicating that its stock price is 122% more volatile than the S&P 500.
80.2% of Hudbay Minerals shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 42.6% of Ferroglobe shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of Hudbay Minerals shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 13.1% of Ferroglobe shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Ferroglobe has a net margin of 14.42% compared to Hudbay Minerals' net margin of 0.87%. Ferroglobe's return on equity of 60.74% beat Hudbay Minerals' return on equity.
Hudbay Minerals presently has a consensus target price of $10.11, indicating a potential upside of 111.89%. Ferroglobe has a consensus target price of $11.00, indicating a potential upside of 130.13%. Given Ferroglobe's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Ferroglobe is more favorable than Hudbay Minerals.
Ferroglobe received 49 more outperform votes than Hudbay Minerals when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.32% of users gave Ferroglobe an outperform vote while only 60.00% of users gave Hudbay Minerals an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Ferroglobe had 2 more articles in the media than Hudbay Minerals. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Ferroglobe and 1 mentions for Hudbay Minerals. Hudbay Minerals' average media sentiment score of 1.42 beat Ferroglobe's score of 0.50 indicating that Hudbay Minerals is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Ferroglobe has higher revenue and earnings than Hudbay Minerals. Ferroglobe is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hudbay Minerals, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Ferroglobe beats Hudbay Minerals on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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