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Southern Copper (SCCO) Competitors

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SCCO vs. FCX, MTRN, SXC, GSM, CMP, BHP, RIO, VALE, CLF, and MP

Should you be buying Southern Copper stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Southern Copper include Freeport-McMoRan (FCX), Materion (MTRN), SunCoke Energy (SXC), Ferroglobe (GSM), Compass Minerals International (CMP), BHP Group (BHP), Rio Tinto Group (RIO), Vale (VALE), Cleveland-Cliffs (CLF), and MP Materials (MP).

Southern Copper vs.

Southern Copper (NYSE:SCCO) and Freeport-McMoRan (NYSE:FCX) are both large-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, community ranking, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, valuation, institutional ownership and media sentiment.

Southern Copper pays an annual dividend of $2.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. Freeport-McMoRan pays an annual dividend of $0.30 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Southern Copper pays out 61.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Freeport-McMoRan pays out 24.8% 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.

In the previous week, Freeport-McMoRan had 14 more articles in the media than Southern Copper. MarketBeat recorded 32 mentions for Freeport-McMoRan and 18 mentions for Southern Copper. Southern Copper's average media sentiment score of 1.48 beat Freeport-McMoRan's score of 0.97 indicating that Southern Copper is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Southern Copper
16 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Freeport-McMoRan
17 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
5 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

7.9% of Southern Copper shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.8% of Freeport-McMoRan shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of Southern Copper shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of Freeport-McMoRan shares are owned 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.

Southern Copper presently has a consensus target price of $91.50, suggesting a potential downside of 1.99%. Freeport-McMoRan has a consensus target price of $48.36, suggesting a potential upside of 24.36%. Given Freeport-McMoRan's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Freeport-McMoRan is more favorable than Southern Copper.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Southern Copper
2 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
1.83
Freeport-McMoRan
0 Sell rating(s)
4 Hold rating(s)
8 Buy rating(s)
3 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.93

Freeport-McMoRan received 735 more outperform votes than Southern Copper when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.18% of users gave Freeport-McMoRan an outperform vote while only 55.62% of users gave Southern Copper an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Southern CopperOutperform Votes
396
55.62%
Underperform Votes
316
44.38%
Freeport-McMoRanOutperform Votes
1131
66.18%
Underperform Votes
578
33.82%

Southern Copper has a net margin of 29.53% compared to Freeport-McMoRan's net margin of 7.42%. Southern Copper's return on equity of 40.27% beat Freeport-McMoRan's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Southern Copper29.53% 40.27% 19.12%
Freeport-McMoRan 7.42%7.50%3.92%

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Southern Copper$11.96B6.22$3.38B$4.5720.43
Freeport-McMoRan$24.86B2.25$1.89B$1.2132.14

Southern Copper has a beta of 1.05, meaning that its stock price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Freeport-McMoRan has a beta of 1.65, meaning that its stock price is 65% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Freeport-McMoRan beats Southern Copper on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.

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SCCO vs. The Competition

MetricSouthern CopperMetal mining IndustryMaterials SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$74.33B$7.02B$3.05B$19.41B
Dividend Yield3.13%3.67%5.08%3.93%
P/E Ratio21.6112.4873.2635.14
Price / Sales6.22102.9726,870,773,414,026,900.0034.90
Price / Cash23.4521.4824.3617.51
Price / Book9.754.515.154.71
Net Income$3.38B$605.28M$155.41M$1.02B
7 Day Performance5.96%0.67%-0.34%2.76%
1 Month Performance7.50%4.18%3.71%9.87%
1 Year Performance-24.03%9.94%15.49%4.18%

Southern Copper Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
SCCO
Southern Copper
1.9101 of 5 stars
$92.14
-1.3%
$91.50
-0.7%
-24.6%$73.36B$11.96B21.3314,700Analyst Upgrade
Positive News
Gap Up
FCX
Freeport-McMoRan
4.9587 of 5 stars
$37.34
-0.7%
$48.09
+28.8%
-27.3%$53.66B$24.86B28.9525,600Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
MTRN
Materion
3.0157 of 5 stars
$79.61
-2.8%
$152.00
+90.9%
-30.7%$1.65B$1.68B274.523,720
SXC
SunCoke Energy
3.9277 of 5 stars
$9.02
-1.5%
$13.00
+44.2%
-13.7%$763.30M$1.88B8.05890Positive News
GSM
Ferroglobe
3.1512 of 5 stars
$3.48
-1.7%
N/A-30.5%$649.46M$1.64B174.003,420Dividend Announcement
Analyst Revision
CMP
Compass Minerals International
0.7519 of 5 stars
$13.58
-0.9%
$16.00
+17.8%
+55.6%$563.75M$1.08B-3.441,950Analyst Forecast
Positive News
BHP
BHP Group
1.7848 of 5 stars
$48.67
-0.3%
$53.00
+8.9%
-14.5%$123.42B$53.60B11.0645,300
RIO
Rio Tinto Group
4.7128 of 5 stars
$59.56
-0.2%
$73.00
+22.6%
-11.0%$74.69B$53.66B9.2353,700News Coverage
Positive News
VALE
Vale
4.2279 of 5 stars
$9.31
-0.6%
$12.13
+30.3%
-22.1%$42.26B$37.72B6.4764,500Analyst Forecast
Positive News
CLF
Cleveland-Cliffs
2.8719 of 5 stars
$8.67
-2.4%
$15.49
+78.6%
-58.0%$4.29B$19.19B-8.9426,000Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
MP
MP Materials
1.3888 of 5 stars
$25.17
+0.6%
$23.94
-4.9%
+13.4%$4.11B$203.86M-42.66490Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
Options Volume
News Coverage

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