ALS vs. LAC, MDI, SKE, AOT, WRN, ETG, FAR, CHE.UN, KRR, and IFP
Should you be buying Altius Minerals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Altius Minerals include Lithium Americas (LAC), Major Drilling Group International (MDI), Skeena Resources (SKE), Ascot Resources (AOT), Western Copper and Gold (WRN), Entrée Resources (ETG), Foraco International (FAR), Chemtrade Logistics Income Fund (CHE.UN), Karora Resources (KRR), and Interfor (IFP). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Lithium Americas (TSE:LAC) and Altius Minerals (TSE:ALS) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, valuation, earnings, institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations, profitability and community ranking.
Lithium Americas presently has a consensus target price of C$22.75, suggesting a potential upside of 259.40%. Altius Minerals has a consensus target price of C$22.71, suggesting a potential upside of 3.01%. Given Altius Minerals' higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Lithium Americas is more favorable than Altius Minerals.
In the previous week, Lithium Americas had 3 more articles in the media than Altius Minerals. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Lithium Americas and 14 mentions for Altius Minerals. Altius Minerals' average media sentiment score of 0.31 beat Lithium Americas' score of -0.09 indicating that Lithium Americas is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Altius Minerals has higher revenue and earnings than Lithium Americas. Lithium Americas is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Altius Minerals, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Altius Minerals has a net margin of 13.83% compared to Altius Minerals' net margin of 0.00%. Lithium Americas' return on equity of 1.66% beat Altius Minerals' return on equity.
25.2% of Lithium Americas shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 24.7% of Altius Minerals shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.4% of Lithium Americas shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 18.8% of Altius Minerals shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Lithium Americas has a beta of 1.58, suggesting that its stock price is 58% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Altius Minerals has a beta of 0.93, suggesting that its stock price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Altius Minerals received 22 more outperform votes than Lithium Americas when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.84% of users gave Lithium Americas an outperform vote while only 61.17% of users gave Altius Minerals an outperform vote.
Summary
Altius Minerals beats Lithium Americas on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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