ERO vs. NXE, MP, AESI, NGD, EU, LEU, MTAL, LAAC, TMC, and LZM
Should you be buying Ero Copper stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ero Copper include NexGen Energy (NXE), MP Materials (MP), Atlas Energy Solutions (AESI), New Gold (NGD), enCore Energy (EU), Centrus Energy (LEU), Metals Acquisition (MTAL), Lithium Americas (Argentina) (LAAC), TMC the metals (TMC), and Lifezone Metals (LZM). These companies are all part of the "non-metallic and industrial metal mining" industry.
NexGen Energy (NYSE:NXE) and Ero Copper (NYSE:ERO) are both basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, risk, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, community ranking and profitability.
Ero Copper has a net margin of 14.23% compared to Ero Copper's net margin of 0.00%. NexGen Energy's return on equity of 10.68% beat Ero Copper's return on equity.
In the previous week, Ero Copper had 20 more articles in the media than NexGen Energy. MarketBeat recorded 22 mentions for Ero Copper and 2 mentions for NexGen Energy. Ero Copper's average media sentiment score of 1.06 beat NexGen Energy's score of 0.49 indicating that NexGen Energy is being referred to more favorably in the media.
42.4% of NexGen Energy shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 71.3% of Ero Copper shares are held by institutional investors. 5.6% of NexGen Energy shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
NexGen Energy currently has a consensus target price of $11.00, indicating a potential upside of 68.71%. Ero Copper has a consensus target price of $32.00, indicating a potential upside of 65.55%. Given Ero Copper's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe NexGen Energy is more favorable than Ero Copper.
Ero Copper received 3 more outperform votes than NexGen Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave NexGen Energy an outperform vote while only 21.88% of users gave Ero Copper an outperform vote.
NexGen Energy has a beta of 1.93, suggesting that its stock price is 93% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ero Copper has a beta of 1.19, suggesting that its stock price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Ero Copper has higher revenue and earnings than NexGen Energy. NexGen Energy 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 NexGen Energy on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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