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Southern Copper (SCCO) Competitors

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$104.43 -1.43 (-1.35%)
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SCCO vs. CENX, AA, ERO, FCX, HBM, MT, TECK, TGB, MTRN, and CMP

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 Compass Minerals International (CMP).

Southern Copper vs. Its Competitors

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

Century Aluminum presently has a consensus target price of $24.33, indicating a potential upside of 32.72%. Southern Copper has a consensus target price of $91.60, indicating a potential downside of 12.26%. Given Century Aluminum's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research 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)
0 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
Southern Copper
2 Sell rating(s)
5 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
1.71

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$2.22B0.77$336.80M$1.1815.54
Southern Copper$11.43B7.27$3.38B$4.5722.85

Southern Copper has a net margin of 30.00% compared to Century Aluminum's net margin of 5.17%. Southern Copper's return on equity of 39.39% beat Century Aluminum's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Century Aluminum5.17% 19.06% 6.43%
Southern Copper 30.00%39.39%19.21%

Century Aluminum has a beta of 2.55, indicating that its share price is 155% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Southern Copper has a beta of 1.02, indicating that its share price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500.

61.6% of Century Aluminum shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 7.9% of Southern Copper shares are held by institutional investors. 0.7% of Century Aluminum shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Southern Copper shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

In the previous week, Southern Copper had 13 more articles in the media than Century Aluminum. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Southern Copper and 4 mentions for Century Aluminum. Century Aluminum's average media sentiment score of 0.80 beat Southern Copper's score of 0.49 indicating that Century Aluminum is being referred to more favorably in the media.

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

Summary

Southern Copper beats Century Aluminum on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.

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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$83.13B$13.95B$3.25B$20.43B
Dividend Yield2.64%2.33%5.15%3.72%
P/E Ratio22.8531.5994.6227.80
Price / Sales7.2711.2327,271,165,733,135,700.0037.78
Price / Cash19.6915.3823.9218.22
Price / Book8.882.765.964.58
Net Income$3.38B$418.31M$147.60M$982.91M
7 Day Performance3.23%4.60%2.20%1.73%
1 Month Performance9.15%12.59%4.61%4.29%
1 Year Performance-10.57%7.97%25.61%14.25%

Southern Copper Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
SCCO
Southern Copper
1.5323 of 5 stars
$104.43
-1.4%
$91.60
-12.3%
-9.5%$83.15B$11.43B22.8516,133
CENX
Century Aluminum
3.987 of 5 stars
$18.02
-0.2%
$24.33
+35.0%
-5.4%$1.68B$2.22B15.272,971News Coverage
Analyst Upgrade
Gap Down
AA
Alcoa
3.9229 of 5 stars
$29.57
+3.9%
$42.33
+43.2%
-26.5%$7.66B$11.90B8.9113,900
ERO
Ero Copper
4.1215 of 5 stars
$16.91
+0.8%
$26.33
+55.7%
-26.2%$1.75B$470.26M99.483,374News Coverage
Analyst Forecast
Gap Down
FCX
Freeport-McMoRan
4.685 of 5 stars
$43.39
-1.1%
$48.27
+11.3%
-11.0%$62.35B$25.46B35.8625,600Positive News
Analyst Revision
HBM
HudBay Minerals
4.2542 of 5 stars
$10.61
+0.5%
$14.00
+32.0%
+10.4%$4.19B$2.02B27.922,803
MT
ArcelorMittal
3.9986 of 5 stars
$31.60
+1.1%
$32.95
+4.3%
+40.4%$25.89B$62.44B20.65157,900
TECK
Teck Resources
4.8981 of 5 stars
$40.47
-0.1%
$64.63
+59.7%
-18.0%$19.67B$6.48B69.7812,100
TGB
Taseko Mines
1.1021 of 5 stars
$3.15
+3.3%
N/A+22.7%$995.10M$600.30M-105.00696
MTRN
Materion
2.9796 of 5 stars
$79.59
-1.4%
N/A-19.4%$1.66B$1.68B159.183,037Analyst Upgrade
High Trading Volume
CMP
Compass Minerals International
0.6719 of 5 stars
$20.12
+0.4%
$19.00
-5.6%
+123.1%$834.98M$1.12B-5.651,894

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This page (NYSE:SCCO) was last updated on 7/7/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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