MP Slides 10% Following Q1 Earnings Miss: 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 curre ...