GSM vs. LAC, NEXA, NGD, LAAC, MTAL, CRML, TMC, MP, HBM, and UUUU
Should you be buying Ferroglobe stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ferroglobe include Lithium Americas (LAC), Nexa Resources (NEXA), New Gold (NGD), Lithium Americas (Argentina) (LAAC), Metals Acquisition (MTAL), Critical Metals (CRML), TMC the metals (TMC), MP Materials (MP), Hudbay Minerals (HBM), and Energy Fuels (UUUU). 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 superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, risk, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and community ranking.
Ferroglobe received 408 more outperform votes than Lithium Americas when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.38% of users gave Ferroglobe an outperform vote while only 60.59% of users gave Lithium Americas an outperform vote.
Ferroglobe has a net margin of 3.92% compared to Lithium Americas' net margin of 0.00%. Ferroglobe's return on equity of 15.04% beat Lithium Americas' return on equity.
89.6% of Ferroglobe shares are owned by institutional investors. 13.1% of Ferroglobe shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 19.8% of Lithium Americas 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.
In the previous week, Ferroglobe had 4 more articles in the media than Lithium Americas. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for Ferroglobe and 17 mentions for Lithium Americas. Lithium Americas' average media sentiment score of 0.56 beat Ferroglobe's score of 0.29 indicating that Lithium Americas is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Ferroglobe has higher revenue and earnings than Lithium Americas.
Lithium Americas has a consensus price target of $11.46, suggesting a potential upside of 156.28%. Given Lithium Americas' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Lithium Americas is more favorable than Ferroglobe.
Summary
Ferroglobe beats Lithium Americas on 9 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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