LAC vs. GSM, LAAC, CRML, NGD, MTAL, TMC, MP, HBM, MATV, and UUUU
Should you be buying Lithium Americas stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lithium Americas include Ferroglobe (GSM), Lithium Americas (Argentina) (LAAC), Critical Metals (CRML), New Gold (NGD), Metals Acquisition (MTAL), TMC the metals (TMC), MP Materials (MP), Hudbay Minerals (HBM), Mativ (MATV), 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 better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, profitability, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk and institutional ownership.
Lithium Americas has a consensus target price of $11.46, indicating a potential upside of 156.28%. Given Ferroglobe's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Lithium Americas is more favorable than Ferroglobe.
Ferroglobe has higher revenue and earnings than Lithium Americas.
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. Ferroglobe's average media sentiment score of 0.56 beat Lithium Americas' score of 0.29 indicating that Lithium Americas is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Ferroglobe has a net margin of 3.92% compared to Ferroglobe's net margin of 0.00%. Lithium Americas' return on equity of 15.04% beat Ferroglobe's 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.
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.
Summary
Ferroglobe beats Lithium Americas on 9 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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