LAAC vs. MP, SGML, NGD, GSM, CRML, LAC, MTAL, TMC, DC, and AMLI
Should you be buying Lithium Americas (Argentina) stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lithium Americas (Argentina) include MP Materials (MP), Sigma Lithium (SGML), New Gold (NGD), Ferroglobe (GSM), Critical Metals (CRML), Lithium Americas (LAC), Metals Acquisition (MTAL), TMC the metals (TMC), Dakota Gold (DC), and American Lithium (AMLI). These companies are all part of the "metal mining" industry.
Lithium Americas (Argentina) (NYSE:LAAC) and MP Materials (NYSE:MP) are both basic materials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, profitability, media sentiment, dividends, valuation and earnings.
MP Materials received 46 more outperform votes than Lithium Americas (Argentina) when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.95% of users gave MP Materials an outperform vote while only 50.00% of users gave Lithium Americas (Argentina) an outperform vote.
In the previous week, MP Materials had 5 more articles in the media than Lithium Americas (Argentina). MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for MP Materials and 2 mentions for Lithium Americas (Argentina). MP Materials' average media sentiment score of 0.25 beat Lithium Americas (Argentina)'s score of -0.03 indicating that MP Materials is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Lithium Americas (Argentina) presently has a consensus price target of $9.40, suggesting a potential upside of 104.79%. MP Materials has a consensus price target of $23.64, suggesting a potential upside of 41.62%. Given Lithium Americas (Argentina)'s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Lithium Americas (Argentina) is more favorable than MP Materials.
Lithium Americas (Argentina) has a beta of 1.33, suggesting that its stock price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MP Materials has a beta of 2.31, suggesting that its stock price is 131% more volatile than the S&P 500.
49.2% of Lithium Americas (Argentina) shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 52.6% of MP Materials shares are owned by institutional investors. 19.8% of Lithium Americas (Argentina) shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 12.6% of MP Materials shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
MP Materials has a net margin of 1.62% compared to Lithium Americas (Argentina)'s net margin of 0.00%. Lithium Americas (Argentina)'s return on equity of 3.09% beat MP Materials' return on equity.
Lithium Americas (Argentina) has higher earnings, but lower revenue than MP Materials. MP Materials is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Lithium Americas (Argentina), indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
MP Materials beats Lithium Americas (Argentina) on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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