LAC vs. ALS, MDI, SKE, AOT, WRN, ETG, FAR, CHE.UN, SLS, and KRR
Should you be buying Lithium Americas stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lithium Americas include Altius Minerals (ALS), 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), Solaris Resources (SLS), and Karora Resources (KRR). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Altius Minerals (TSE:ALS) and Lithium Americas (TSE:LAC) 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.
Altius Minerals presently has a consensus target price of C$23.25, suggesting a potential upside of 4.31%. Lithium Americas has a consensus target price of C$12.00, suggesting a potential upside of 97.69%. Given Altius Minerals' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Lithium Americas is more favorable than Altius Minerals.
Altius Minerals received 23 more outperform votes than Lithium Americas when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.84% of users gave Lithium Americas an outperform vote while only 61.11% of users gave Altius Minerals an outperform vote.
24.7% of Altius Minerals shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 25.2% of Lithium Americas shares are owned by institutional investors. 18.8% of Altius Minerals shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Lithium Americas 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.
Altius Minerals has a beta of 0.93, suggesting that its stock price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lithium Americas has a beta of 1.58, suggesting that its stock price is 58% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Altius Minerals had 10 more articles in the media than Lithium Americas. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Altius Minerals and 1 mentions for Lithium Americas. Lithium Americas' average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat Altius Minerals' score of 0.00 indicating that Altius Minerals is being referred to more favorably in the media.
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.
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.
Summary
Altius Minerals beats Lithium Americas on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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