LAC vs. MP, SGML, NGD, GSM, CRML, MTAL, LAAC, TMC, DC, and AMLI
Should you be buying Lithium Americas stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lithium Americas include MP Materials (MP), Sigma Lithium (SGML), New Gold (NGD), Ferroglobe (GSM), Critical Metals (CRML), Metals Acquisition (MTAL), Lithium Americas (Argentina) (LAAC), TMC the metals (TMC), Dakota Gold (DC), and American Lithium (AMLI). These companies are all part of the "metal mining" industry.
Lithium Americas (NYSE:LAC) and MP Materials (NYSE:MP) are both basic materials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, valuation, earnings, community ranking, risk and analyst recommendations.
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.
In the previous week, Lithium Americas had 7 more articles in the media than MP Materials. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Lithium Americas and 6 mentions for MP Materials. MP Materials' average media sentiment score of 1.27 beat Lithium Americas' score of 0.53 indicating that MP Materials is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
MP Materials has higher revenue and earnings than Lithium Americas.
Lithium Americas presently has a consensus target price of $11.46, suggesting a potential upside of 273.15%. MP Materials has a consensus target price of $23.64, suggesting a potential upside of 57.62%. Given Lithium Americas' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Lithium Americas is more favorable than MP Materials.
52.6% of MP Materials shares are held by institutional investors. 12.6% of MP Materials shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds 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' net margin of 0.00%. Lithium Americas' return on equity of 0.00% beat MP Materials' return on equity.
Summary
Lithium Americas and MP Materials tied by winning 7 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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