SQM vs. CCJ, TECK, SUM, KNF, MP, NGD, HBM, NXE, TTAM, and AESI
Should you be buying Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile include Cameco (CCJ), Teck Resources (TECK), Summit Materials (SUM), Knife River (KNF), MP Materials (MP), New Gold (NGD), Hudbay Minerals (HBM), NexGen Energy (NXE), Titan America (TTAM), and Atlas Energy Solutions (AESI). These companies are all part of the "non-metallic and industrial metal mining" industry.
Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile vs.
Cameco (NYSE:CCJ) and Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile (NYSE:SQM) are both basic materials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, community ranking, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, earnings and dividends.
Cameco has a net margin of 5.39% compared to Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile's net margin of -6.74%. Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile's return on equity of 16.12% beat Cameco's return on equity.
Cameco pays an annual dividend of $0.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.3%. Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile pays an annual dividend of $0.14 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.4%. Cameco pays out 42.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile pays out -10.0% 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. Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile has higher revenue and earnings than Cameco. Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cameco, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Cameco has a beta of 1.04, indicating that its stock price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile has a beta of 0.99, indicating that its stock price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500.
70.2% of Cameco shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 12.4% of Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Cameco shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Cameco received 157 more outperform votes than Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.01% of users gave Cameco an outperform vote while only 56.04% of users gave Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile an outperform vote.
Cameco currently has a consensus target price of $70.03, indicating a potential upside of 53.34%. Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile has a consensus target price of $45.43, indicating a potential upside of 31.58%. Given Cameco's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Cameco is more favorable than Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile.
In the previous week, Cameco had 25 more articles in the media than Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile. MarketBeat recorded 34 mentions for Cameco and 9 mentions for Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile. Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile's average media sentiment score of 1.66 beat Cameco's score of 1.27 indicating that Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Cameco beats Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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