III vs. ERO, IE, TKO, NSU, AYM, CMMC, ARG, FDY, LA, and CUU
Should you be buying Imperial Metals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Imperial Metals include Ero Copper (ERO), Ivanhoe Electric (IE), Taseko Mines (TKO), Nevsun Resources (NSU), Atalaya Mining (AYM), Copper Mountain Mining (CMMC), Amerigo Resources (ARG), Faraday Copper (FDY), Los Andes Copper (LA), and Copper Fox Metals (CUU). These companies are all part of the "copper" industry.
Imperial Metals vs. Its Competitors
Imperial Metals (TSE:III) and Ero Copper (TSE:ERO) are both basic materials companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, media sentiment, profitability, dividends, risk and institutional ownership.
Ero Copper has a consensus target price of C$28.83, suggesting a potential downside of 15.00%. Given Ero Copper's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Ero Copper is more favorable than Imperial Metals.
Imperial Metals has a beta of 0.996943, suggesting that its share price is 0% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ero Copper has a beta of 1.521804, suggesting that its share price is 52% more volatile than the S&P 500.
6.4% of Imperial Metals shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 66.2% of Ero Copper shares are held by institutional investors. 49.3% of Imperial Metals shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 10.4% of Ero 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, Ero Copper had 17 more articles in the media than Imperial Metals. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Ero Copper and 0 mentions for Imperial Metals. Imperial Metals' average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Ero Copper's score of -0.10 indicating that Imperial Metals is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Imperial Metals has a net margin of 7.33% compared to Ero Copper's net margin of 3.45%. Imperial Metals' return on equity of 4.53% beat Ero Copper's return on equity.
Imperial Metals has higher revenue and earnings than Ero Copper. Imperial Metals is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ero Copper, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Ero Copper beats Imperial Metals on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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This page (TSE:III) was last updated on 10/16/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
