ERO vs. HBM, IE, CS, LUN, PRU, STLC, EQX, CEE, IMG, and OGC
Should you be buying Ero Copper stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ero Copper include Hudbay Minerals (HBM), Ivanhoe Electric (IE), Capstone Copper (CS), Lundin Mining (LUN), Perseus Mining (PRU), Stelco (STLC), Equinox Gold (EQX), Centamin (CEE), IAMGOLD (IMG), and OceanaGold (OGC). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Ero Copper (TSE:ERO) and Hudbay Minerals (TSE:HBM) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation and community ranking.
Ero Copper has a beta of 2.14, indicating that its share price is 114% 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.
Ero Copper has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Hudbay Minerals. Ero 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.
Ero Copper has a net margin of 21.71% compared to Hudbay Minerals' net margin of 3.93%. Ero Copper's return on equity of 13.96% beat Hudbay Minerals' return on equity.
80.9% of Ero Copper shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 66.1% of Hudbay Minerals shares are held by institutional investors. 11.1% of Ero Copper shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Hudbay Minerals shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Hudbay Minerals received 643 more outperform votes than Ero Copper when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.46% of users gave Hudbay Minerals an outperform vote while only 55.73% of users gave Ero Copper an outperform vote.
Ero Copper presently has a consensus target price of C$25.00, suggesting a potential downside of 4.29%. Hudbay Minerals has a consensus target price of C$9.64, suggesting a potential upside of 1.72%. Given Hudbay Minerals' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Hudbay Minerals is more favorable than Ero Copper.
In the previous week, Hudbay Minerals had 8 more articles in the media than Ero Copper. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Hudbay Minerals and 3 mentions for Ero Copper. Ero Copper's average media sentiment score of 0.78 beat Hudbay Minerals' score of 0.02 indicating that Ero Copper is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Ero Copper beats Hudbay Minerals on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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