How to Play the Stock?
MP Materials MP reported first-quarter 2025 results on May 8, with revenues rising 25% year over year to $60.8 million. The company achieved record (neodymium and praseodymium) NdPr production and logged the second-highest quarterly output of rare earth oxides (REO). Despite this, shares fell 10% as MP Materials reported a loss of 12 cents per share. It was wider than the Zacks Consensus Estimate of a loss of 10 cents and the year-ago quarter’s loss of 4 cents on higher production costs.
Despite the current dip, MP Materials shares have moved up 35.5% year to date, outperforming the Zacks Mining – Miscellaneous industry’s growth of 6.6%. In comparison, the Zacks Basic Materials sector has gained 5.6%, while the S&P 500 has…
