GSM vs. LAC, CRML, LAAC, MTAL, TMC, MP, HBM, MATV, RYI, and MTUS
Should you be buying Ferroglobe stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ferroglobe include Lithium Americas (LAC), Critical Metals (CRML), Lithium Americas (Argentina) (LAAC), Metals Acquisition (MTAL), TMC the metals (TMC), MP Materials (MP), Hudbay Minerals (HBM), Mativ (MATV), Ryerson (RYI), and Metallus (MTUS). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Ferroglobe (NASDAQ:GSM) and Lithium Americas (NYSE:LAC) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, valuation, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings and profitability.
Lithium Americas has a consensus price target of $12.18, suggesting a potential upside of 171.22%. Given Lithium Americas' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Lithium Americas is more favorable than Ferroglobe.
Ferroglobe received 408 more outperform votes than Lithium Americas when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.34% of users gave Ferroglobe an outperform vote while only 60.45% of users gave Lithium Americas an outperform vote.
Ferroglobe has higher revenue and earnings than Lithium Americas.
In the previous week, Lithium Americas had 9 more articles in the media than Ferroglobe. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Lithium Americas and 4 mentions for Ferroglobe. Ferroglobe's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Lithium Americas' score of -0.01 indicating that Ferroglobe is being referred to more favorably in the media.
89.6% of Ferroglobe shares are held by institutional investors. 13.1% of Ferroglobe shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 19.8% of Lithium Americas shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Ferroglobe has a net margin of 5.29% compared to Lithium Americas' net margin of 0.00%. Ferroglobe's return on equity of 16.74% beat Lithium Americas' return on equity.
Summary
Ferroglobe beats Lithium Americas on 9 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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