LAC vs. MP, NGD, SGML, GSM, NEXA, CRML, MTAL, LAAC, TMC, and DC
Should you be buying Lithium Americas stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lithium Americas include MP Materials (MP), New Gold (NGD), Sigma Lithium (SGML), Ferroglobe (GSM), Nexa Resources (NEXA), Critical Metals (CRML), Metals Acquisition (MTAL), Lithium Americas (Argentina) (LAAC), TMC the metals (TMC), and Dakota Gold (DC). These companies are all part of the "metal mining" industry.
MP Materials (NYSE:MP) and Lithium Americas (NYSE:LAC) are both basic materials companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations, risk, profitability and valuation.
MP Materials presently has a consensus price target of $23.64, indicating a potential upside of 59.32%. Lithium Americas has a consensus price target of $11.46, indicating a potential upside of 276.83%. Given MP Materials' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Lithium Americas is more favorable than MP Materials.
MP Materials has higher revenue and earnings than Lithium Americas.
Lithium Americas received 110 more outperform votes than MP Materials when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.95% of users gave MP Materials an outperform vote while only 60.37% of users gave Lithium Americas an outperform vote.
52.6% of MP Materials shares are held by institutional investors. 12.6% of MP Materials shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 19.8% of Lithium Americas shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Lithium Americas had 3 more articles in the media than MP Materials. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Lithium Americas and 5 mentions for MP Materials. Lithium Americas' average media sentiment score of 1.22 beat MP Materials' score of -0.23 indicating that MP Materials is being referred to more favorably in the media.
MP Materials has a net margin of 1.62% compared to MP Materials' net margin of 0.00%. MP Materials' return on equity of 0.00% beat Lithium Americas' return on equity.
Summary
Lithium Americas beats MP Materials on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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