CS vs. HBM, ERO, LUN, FM, AGI, WFG, BTO, SJ, LUG, and MX
Should you be buying Capstone Copper stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Capstone Copper include Hudbay Minerals (HBM), Ero Copper (ERO), Lundin Mining (LUN), First Quantum Minerals (FM), Alamos Gold (AGI), West Fraser Timber (WFG), B2Gold (BTO), Stella-Jones (SJ), Lundin Gold (LUG), and Methanex (MX). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Capstone Copper (TSE:CS) and Hudbay Minerals (TSE:HBM) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, earnings, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership and dividends.
In the previous week, Hudbay Minerals had 16 more articles in the media than Capstone Copper. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for Hudbay Minerals and 5 mentions for Capstone Copper. Capstone Copper's average media sentiment score of 0.32 beat Hudbay Minerals' score of 0.15 indicating that Capstone Copper is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Capstone Copper currently has a consensus price target of C$9.63, suggesting a potential upside of 0.05%. Hudbay Minerals has a consensus price target of C$11.06, suggesting a potential downside of 0.34%. Given Capstone Copper's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Capstone Copper is more favorable than Hudbay Minerals.
Hudbay Minerals has a net margin of 3.93% compared to Capstone Copper's net margin of -7.56%. Hudbay Minerals' return on equity of 3.68% beat Capstone Copper's return on equity.
Hudbay Minerals received 186 more outperform votes than Capstone Copper when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 69.59% of users gave Capstone Copper an outperform vote while only 62.44% of users gave Hudbay Minerals an outperform vote.
Capstone Copper pays an annual dividend of C$0.26 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. Hudbay Minerals pays an annual dividend of C$0.02 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.2%. Capstone Copper pays out -123.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Hudbay Minerals pays out 6.7% 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. Capstone Copper is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Capstone Copper has a beta of 2.32, indicating that its share price is 132% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hudbay Minerals has a beta of 1.96, indicating that its share price is 96% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Hudbay Minerals has higher revenue and earnings than Capstone Copper. Capstone Copper is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hudbay Minerals, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
39.1% of Capstone Copper shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 66.1% of Hudbay Minerals shares are held by institutional investors. 17.2% of Capstone Copper shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Hudbay Minerals shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Hudbay Minerals beats Capstone Copper on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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