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.
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.
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.
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.
Summary
Southern Copper beats Century Aluminum on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:SCCO) was last updated on 7/7/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff