MP vs. SQM, SUM, KNF, HBM, NGD, NXE, TTAM, LEU, AESI, and ERO
Should you be buying MP Materials stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MP Materials include Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile (SQM), Summit Materials (SUM), Knife River (KNF), Hudbay Minerals (HBM), New Gold (NGD), NexGen Energy (NXE), Titan America (TTAM), Centrus Energy (LEU), Atlas Energy Solutions (AESI), and Ero Copper (ERO). These companies are all part of the "non-metallic and industrial metal mining" industry.
MP Materials vs. Its Competitors
Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile (NYSE:SQM) and MP Materials (NYSE:MP) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, risk, dividends, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking and media sentiment.
Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile currently has a consensus price target of $41.14, indicating a potential upside of 25.67%. MP Materials has a consensus price target of $25.61, indicating a potential downside of 15.73%. Given Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile is more favorable than MP Materials.
In the previous week, MP Materials had 18 more articles in the media than Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile. MarketBeat recorded 23 mentions for MP Materials and 5 mentions for Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile. MP Materials' average media sentiment score of 0.50 beat Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile's score of 0.44 indicating that MP Materials is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
12.4% of Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 52.5% of MP Materials shares are owned by institutional investors. 9.5% of MP Materials shares are owned by company 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.
Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile received 311 more outperform votes than MP Materials when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.63% of users gave MP Materials an outperform vote while only 56.09% of users gave Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile an outperform vote.
Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile has a beta of 1.04, meaning that its share price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MP Materials has a beta of 2.14, meaning that its share price is 114% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile has higher revenue and earnings than MP Materials. MP Materials is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile has a net margin of -6.74% compared to MP Materials' net margin of -32.09%. Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile's return on equity of 16.12% beat MP Materials' return on equity.
Summary
Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile and MP Materials tied by winning 9 of the 18 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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This page (NYSE:MP) was last updated on 6/13/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
