PLL vs. IPI, ATLX, CMP, LEU, SLCA, FSTR, RYAM, DC, TG, and VZLA
Should you be buying Piedmont Lithium stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Piedmont Lithium include Intrepid Potash (IPI), Atlas Lithium (ATLX), Compass Minerals International (CMP), Centrus Energy (LEU), U.S. Silica (SLCA), L.B. Foster (FSTR), Rayonier Advanced Materials (RYAM), Dakota Gold (DC), Tredegar (TG), and Vizsla Silver (VZLA). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Piedmont Lithium (NASDAQ:PLL) and Intrepid Potash (NYSE:IPI) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking, risk, valuation, dividends, earnings and analyst recommendations.
52.2% of Piedmont Lithium shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 56.1% of Intrepid Potash shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.8% of Piedmont Lithium shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 18.0% of Intrepid Potash shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Piedmont Lithium has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Intrepid Potash. Piedmont Lithium is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Intrepid Potash, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Piedmont Lithium currently has a consensus target price of $65.67, indicating a potential upside of 439.58%. Intrepid Potash has a consensus target price of $21.00, indicating a potential upside of 7.53%. Given Piedmont Lithium's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Piedmont Lithium is more favorable than Intrepid Potash.
Piedmont Lithium has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Intrepid Potash's net margin of -12.78%. Intrepid Potash's return on equity of -0.43% beat Piedmont Lithium's return on equity.
Intrepid Potash received 96 more outperform votes than Piedmont Lithium when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 53.49% of users gave Piedmont Lithium an outperform vote while only 50.42% of users gave Intrepid Potash an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Piedmont Lithium had 5 more articles in the media than Intrepid Potash. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Piedmont Lithium and 1 mentions for Intrepid Potash. Piedmont Lithium's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Intrepid Potash's score of 0.10 indicating that Piedmont Lithium is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Piedmont Lithium has a beta of 0.77, indicating that its stock price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Intrepid Potash has a beta of 2.18, indicating that its stock price is 118% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Piedmont Lithium beats Intrepid Potash on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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