LAC vs. GSM, CRML, LAAC, MTAL, TMC, MP, HBM, RYI, MATV, and MTUS
Should you be buying Lithium Americas stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lithium Americas include Ferroglobe (GSM), Critical Metals (CRML), Lithium Americas (Argentina) (LAAC), Metals Acquisition (MTAL), TMC the metals (TMC), MP Materials (MP), Hudbay Minerals (HBM), Ryerson (RYI), Mativ (MATV), 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 stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, risk, community ranking, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, media sentiment, institutional ownership and profitability.
Ferroglobe has higher revenue and earnings than Lithium Americas.
In the previous week, Lithium Americas had 2 more articles in the media than Ferroglobe. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Lithium Americas and 3 mentions for Ferroglobe. Lithium Americas' average media sentiment score of 0.98 beat Ferroglobe's score of 0.33 indicating that Ferroglobe is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Ferroglobe received 409 more outperform votes than Lithium Americas when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.38% of users gave Ferroglobe an outperform vote while only 60.45% of users gave Lithium Americas an outperform vote.
Lithium Americas has a consensus price target of $12.18, indicating a potential upside of 179.31%. Given Ferroglobe's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Lithium Americas is more favorable than Ferroglobe.
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 endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Ferroglobe has a net margin of 5.29% compared to Ferroglobe's net margin of 0.00%. Lithium Americas' return on equity of 16.74% beat Ferroglobe's return on equity.
Summary
Ferroglobe beats Lithium Americas on 9 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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