MP vs. TECK, SQM, SUM, KNF, HBM, NGD, NXE, LEU, TMC, and TTAM
Should you be buying MP Materials stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MP Materials include Teck Resources (TECK), Sociedad Quimica y Minera (SQM), Summit Materials (SUM), Knife River (KNF), HudBay Minerals (HBM), New Gold (NGD), NexGen Energy (NXE), Centrus Energy (LEU), TMC the metals (TMC), and Titan America (TTAM). These companies are all part of the "non-metallic and industrial metal mining" industry.
MP Materials vs. Its Competitors
MP Materials (NYSE:MP) and Teck Resources (NYSE:TECK) are both basic materials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, earnings, risk, valuation and profitability.
MP Materials has a beta of 2.26, suggesting that its stock price is 126% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Teck Resources has a beta of 0.8, suggesting that its stock price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Teck Resources has higher revenue and earnings than MP Materials. MP Materials is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Teck Resources, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Teck Resources has a net margin of 3.48% compared to MP Materials' net margin of -48.41%. Teck Resources' return on equity of 4.53% beat MP Materials' return on equity.
52.6% of MP Materials shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.1% of Teck Resources shares are owned by institutional investors. 12.6% of MP Materials shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Teck Resources shares are owned by 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.
MP Materials presently has a consensus price target of $31.28, suggesting a potential downside of 35.65%. Teck Resources has a consensus price target of $63.14, suggesting a potential upside of 64.59%. Given Teck Resources' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Teck Resources is more favorable than MP Materials.
In the previous week, MP Materials had 16 more articles in the media than Teck Resources. MarketBeat recorded 57 mentions for MP Materials and 41 mentions for Teck Resources. MP Materials' average media sentiment score of 0.69 beat Teck Resources' score of 0.41 indicating that MP Materials is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Teck Resources beats MP Materials on 12 of the 17 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 7/14/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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