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Southern Copper (SCCO) Competitors

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$129.84 -3.43 (-2.58%)
Closing price 10/17/2025 03:59 PM Eastern
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$129.75 -0.09 (-0.07%)
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SCCO vs. CENX, AA, ERO, FCX, HBM, MT, TECK, TGB, MTRN, and GSM

Should you be buying Southern Copper stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Southern Copper include Century Aluminum (CENX), Alcoa (AA), Ero Copper (ERO), Freeport-McMoRan (FCX), HudBay Minerals (HBM), ArcelorMittal (MT), Teck Resources (TECK), Taseko Mines (TGB), Materion (MTRN), and Ferroglobe (GSM).

Southern Copper vs. Its Competitors

Century Aluminum (NASDAQ:CENX) and Southern Copper (NYSE:SCCO) are related companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment, valuation, profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings and dividends.

Southern Copper has higher revenue and earnings than Century Aluminum. Century Aluminum is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Southern Copper, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Century Aluminum$2.22B1.36$336.80M$1.1627.98
Southern Copper$11.43B9.13$3.38B$4.5728.41

Southern Copper has a net margin of 30.37% compared to Century Aluminum's net margin of 4.94%. Southern Copper's return on equity of 38.08% beat Century Aluminum's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Century Aluminum4.94% 18.02% 6.21%
Southern Copper 30.37%38.08%18.88%

Century Aluminum has a beta of 2.52, suggesting that its share price is 152% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Southern Copper has a beta of 1.02, suggesting that its share price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Southern Copper had 11 more articles in the media than Century Aluminum. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Southern Copper and 2 mentions for Century Aluminum. Southern Copper's average media sentiment score of 1.31 beat Century Aluminum's score of 1.11 indicating that Southern Copper is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Century Aluminum
1 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Southern Copper
9 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Century Aluminum presently has a consensus price target of $28.50, suggesting a potential downside of 12.20%. Southern Copper has a consensus price target of $110.78, suggesting a potential downside of 14.68%. Given Century Aluminum's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Century Aluminum is more favorable than Southern Copper.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Century Aluminum
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
2 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.17
Southern Copper
3 Sell rating(s)
7 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
1.92

61.6% of Century Aluminum shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 7.9% of Southern Copper shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.8% of Century Aluminum shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Southern Copper shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

Southern Copper beats Century Aluminum on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding SCCO and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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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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SCCO vs. The Competition

MetricSouthern CopperMINING IndustryMaterials SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$104.38B$15.53B$3.78B$21.84B
Dividend Yield2.47%2.05%5.05%3.62%
P/E Ratio28.4123.13156.9532.43
Price / Sales9.1321.8223,957.7060.32
Price / Cash24.1522.0026.4924.21
Price / Book11.044.457.184.59
Net Income$3.38B$386.02M$148.99M$1.02B
7 Day Performance3.87%0.53%45.47%1.31%
1 Month Performance20.97%30.87%53.97%-1.47%
1 Year Performance15.00%78.02%75.23%9.54%

Southern Copper Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
SCCO
Southern Copper
2.6335 of 5 stars
$129.84
-2.6%
$110.78
-14.7%
+15.9%$104.38B$11.43B28.4116,133Positive News
Analyst Forecast
CENX
Century Aluminum
3.5531 of 5 stars
$29.14
-2.4%
$25.67
-11.9%
+91.5%$2.79B$2.22B25.122,971Gap Up
AA
Alcoa
4.207 of 5 stars
$33.79
-2.1%
$42.27
+25.1%
-10.7%$8.93B$11.90B8.8213,900Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
ERO
Ero Copper
2.5649 of 5 stars
$21.67
+1.1%
$19.00
-12.3%
+13.6%$2.22B$470.26M17.153,374Analyst Downgrade
Options Volume
Analyst Revision
FCX
Freeport-McMoRan
4.7939 of 5 stars
$40.35
+1.7%
$46.74
+15.8%
-14.1%$56.96B$25.46B30.5728,500Trending News
Analyst Forecast
HBM
HudBay Minerals
4.0469 of 5 stars
$15.66
-0.5%
N/A+78.0%$6.23B$2.02B21.452,803Analyst Forecast
Short Interest ↓
Analyst Revision
MT
ArcelorMittal
3.64 of 5 stars
$38.95
+1.4%
$33.45
-14.1%
+61.1%$31.47B$62.44B12.02125,416Gap Up
TECK
Teck Resources
4.8809 of 5 stars
$43.06
-0.4%
$56.88
+32.1%
-14.1%$20.77B$6.48B113.327,200Trending News
Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Downgrade
Short Interest ↓
Analyst Revision
TGB
Taseko Mines
3.0923 of 5 stars
$4.11
-1.2%
$5.00
+21.7%
+63.3%$1.30B$578.65M-137.00696News Coverage
MTRN
Materion
3.4457 of 5 stars
$125.85
+1.1%
$117.00
-7.0%
+20.3%$2.58B$1.68B157.313,037Analyst Upgrade
Analyst Revision
GSM
Ferroglobe
2.2862 of 5 stars
$5.04
flat
N/A+6.8%$940.59M$1.64B-8.843,283High Trading Volume

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This page (NYSE:SCCO) was last updated on 10/18/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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