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HL vs IPI

Side-by-side comparison of Hecla Mining Company (HL) and Intrepid Potash Inc (IPI): market cap, price performance, sector, and recent activity on the wire.

Summary

  • Both HL and IPI operate in Mining & Quarrying of Nonmetallic Minerals (No Fuels) (Industrials), so they compete in similar markets.
  • HL is the larger of the two at $9.91B, about 21.1x IPI ($469.6M).
  • IPI has been more active in the news (10 items in the past 4 weeks vs 2 for HL).
  • HL has more recent analyst coverage (19 ratings vs 1 for IPI).
MetricHLIPI
Company
Hecla Mining Company
Intrepid Potash Inc
Price
$14.85+0.51%
$35.30+1.00%
Market cap
$9.91B
$469.6M
1M return
-
-8.36%
1Y return
-
-3.95%
Industry
Mining & Quarrying of Nonmetallic Minerals (No Fuels)
Mining & Quarrying of Nonmetallic Minerals (No Fuels)
Exchange
NYSE
NYSE
IPO
2008
News (4w)
2
10
Recent ratings
19
1
HL

Hecla Mining Company

Hecla Mining Company, together with its subsidiaries, discovers, acquires, develops, and produces precious and base metal properties in the United States and internationally. The company offers lead, zinc, and bulk concentrates, as well as carbon materials to custom smelters, metal traders, and third-party processors; and unrefined gold and silver bullion bars to precious metals traders. It owns 100% interests in the Greens Creek mine located on Admiralty Island in southeast Alaska; the Lucky Friday mine located in northern Idaho; the Casa Berardi mine located in the Abitibi region of northwestern Quebec, Canada; and the San Sebastian mine located in the city of Durango, Mexico. The company also holds 100% interests in the Fire Creek mine located in Lander County, Nevada; and the Hollister and Midas mines located in Elko County, Nevada. Hecla Mining Company was incorporated in 1891 and is headquartered in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho.

IPI

Intrepid Potash Inc

Intrepid Potash, Inc. produces and sells potash and langbeinite products in the United States and internationally. It operates through three segments: Potash, Trio, and Oilfield Solutions. The Potash segment offers muriate of potash or potassium chloride for use as a fertilizer input in the agricultural market; as a component in drilling and fracturing fluids for oil and gas wells, as well as an input to other industrial processes in the industrial market; and as a nutrient supplement in the animal feed market. The Trio segment provides Trio, a specialty fertilizer that delivers potassium, sulfate, and magnesium in a single particle. The Oilfield Solutions segment sells water for use in the oil and gas services industry; and offers potassium chloride real-time mixing services on location for hydraulic fracturing operations and trucking services. The company offers salt for use in animal feeds, industrial applications, pool salts, and treatment of roads and walkways; magnesium chloride for use in the deicing and dedusting of roads; brines for well development and completion activities in the oil and gas industry; and metal recovery salt, a combination of potash and salt to enhance the recovery of aluminum in the aluminum recycling processing facilities. Intrepid Potash, Inc. was founded in 2000 and is based in Denver, Colorado.

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