MP Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (MP Materials Corp. | NYSE:MP)

MP Materials Corp is the producer of rare earth materials in the Western Hemisphere. The company owns and operates the Mountain Pass Rare Earth Mine and Processing Facility, the only rare earth mining and processing site of scale in North America. The company is also developing a rare earth metal, alloy, and magnet manufacturing facility in Fort Worth, Texas. The company's operations are organized into two reportable segments: Materials and Magnetics.

MP Materials Corp. trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol MP.

As of January 16, 2026, MP stock price climbed to $68.98 with 6,340,071 million shares trading.

MP has a beta of 0.26, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. MP has a correlation of 0.00 to the broad based SPY ETF.

MP has a market cap of $12.22 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.

Last quarter MP Materials Corp. reported $54 million in Revenue and -$.10 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $495,746 and exceeded earnings estimates by $.07.

In the last 3 years, MP traded as high as $100.25 and as low as $10.02.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that MP belongs to (by Net Assets): IJH, VTI, XME, VB, REMX.

MP has outperformed the market in the last year with a price return of +225.8% while the SPY ETF gained +18.1%. However, in the short term, MP had mixed performance relative to the market. It has underperformed in the last 3 months, returning -17.7% vs +5.0% return in SPY. But in the last 2 weeks, MP shares have fared better than the market returning +25.5% compared to SPY +1.2%.

MP support price is $63.88 and resistance is $69.52 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that MP shares will trade within this expected range on the day.