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RIO vs. BVN, BHP, SCCO, FCX, VALE, CLF, MP, HBM, NGD, and TMC

Should you be buying Rio Tinto Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Rio Tinto Group include Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A. (BVN), BHP Group (BHP), Southern Copper (SCCO), Freeport-McMoRan (FCX), Vale (VALE), Cleveland-Cliffs (CLF), MP Materials (MP), Hudbay Minerals (HBM), New Gold (NGD), and TMC the metals (TMC). These companies are all part of the "metal mining" industry.

Rio Tinto Group vs.

Rio Tinto Group (NYSE:RIO) and Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A. (NYSE:BVN) are both basic materials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, valuation, earnings, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership and media sentiment.

Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A. has a net margin of 32.40% compared to Rio Tinto Group's net margin of 0.00%. Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A.'s return on equity of 6.15% beat Rio Tinto Group's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Rio Tinto GroupN/A N/A N/A
Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A. 32.40%6.15%4.37%

In the previous week, Rio Tinto Group had 22 more articles in the media than Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A.. MarketBeat recorded 28 mentions for Rio Tinto Group and 6 mentions for Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A.. Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A.'s average media sentiment score of 1.25 beat Rio Tinto Group's score of 0.79 indicating that Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A. is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Rio Tinto Group
13 Very Positive mention(s)
3 Positive mention(s)
11 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A.
6 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

19.3% of Rio Tinto Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 19.3% of Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A. shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Rio Tinto Group currently has a consensus price target of $73.00, indicating a potential upside of 18.57%. Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A. has a consensus price target of $16.75, indicating a potential upside of 14.22%. Given Rio Tinto Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Rio Tinto Group is more favorable than Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A..

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Rio Tinto Group
0 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
5 Buy rating(s)
3 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A.
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.50

Rio Tinto Group received 1168 more outperform votes than Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A. when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.49% of users gave Rio Tinto Group an outperform vote while only 57.96% of users gave Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A. an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Rio Tinto GroupOutperform Votes
1492
71.49%
Underperform Votes
595
28.51%
Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A.Outperform Votes
324
57.96%
Underperform Votes
235
42.04%

Rio Tinto Group has a beta of 0.73, meaning that its share price is 27% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A. has a beta of 0.42, meaning that its share price is 58% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Rio Tinto Group pays an annual dividend of $4.46 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.2%. Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A. pays an annual dividend of $0.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Rio Tinto Group pays out 69.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A. pays out 14.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.

Rio Tinto Group has higher revenue and earnings than Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A.. Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A. is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Rio Tinto Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Rio Tinto Group$53.66B1.44$10.06B$6.459.55
Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A.$1.15B3.22$19.85M$1.897.76

Summary

Rio Tinto Group beats Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A. on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.

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RIO vs. The Competition

MetricRio Tinto GroupMetal mining IndustryMaterials SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$77.22B$6.88B$3.08B$19.31B
Dividend Yield7.12%3.56%5.21%3.83%
P/E Ratio9.5514.0372.0334.57
Price / Sales1.4496.0625,633,028,482,413,500.0034.96
Price / Cash4.8021.4824.3417.51
Price / Book1.335.105.204.69
Net Income$10.06B$605.28M$156.63M$1.02B
7 Day Performance-1.82%1.88%2.41%-1.82%
1 Month Performance3.30%8.20%5.50%7.40%
1 Year Performance-14.74%10.24%17.04%4.07%

Rio Tinto Group Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
RIO
Rio Tinto Group
4.5117 of 5 stars
$61.18
-1.3%
$73.00
+19.3%
-15.7%$76.72B$53.66B9.4953,700Trending News
BVN
Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A.
3.4178 of 5 stars
$14.50
-0.2%
$16.75
+15.5%
-19.9%$3.68B$1.15B10.282,043Positive News
BHP
BHP Group
1.862 of 5 stars
$50.20
-0.6%
$53.00
+5.6%
-19.9%$127.28B$53.60B11.4145,300News Coverage
Analyst Downgrade
SCCO
Southern Copper
1.7486 of 5 stars
$91.41
+0.7%
$91.50
+0.1%
-28.2%$72.82B$11.96B21.1714,700News Coverage
Positive News
Analyst Downgrade
FCX
Freeport-McMoRan
4.9584 of 5 stars
$38.72
+1.8%
$48.36
+24.9%
-30.0%$55.65B$24.86B30.0225,600Positive News
VALE
Vale
4.2439 of 5 stars
$9.82
+0.2%
$12.04
+22.7%
-24.9%$44.55B$37.72B6.8264,500Positive News
CLF
Cleveland-Cliffs
2.8482 of 5 stars
$7.41
-2.7%
$15.02
+102.8%
-59.9%$3.66B$18.62B-7.6326,000Trending News
Analyst Revision
MP
MP Materials
1.2585 of 5 stars
$21.20
-0.5%
$23.61
+11.4%
+10.5%$3.46B$215.98M-35.86490Gap Up
HBM
Hudbay Minerals
3.0366 of 5 stars
$8.22
+1.2%
$14.00
+70.4%
-18.2%$3.25B$2.09B45.662,500Positive News
Analyst Upgrade
NGD
New Gold
2.3513 of 5 stars
$3.87
+2.5%
$4.04
+4.6%
+102.4%$3.07B$941.50M29.811,570Positive News
Gap Up
TMC
TMC the metals
1.6392 of 5 stars
$4.42
+21.3%
$4.88
+10.4%
+209.2%$1.55BN/A-14.3430Analyst Forecast
Insider Trade
Options Volume
Analyst Revision
High Trading Volume

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