ATLX vs. PLL, IPI, FEAM, CMP, LEU, DC, TG, ASPI, NTIC, and GRWG
Should you be buying Atlas Lithium stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Atlas Lithium include Piedmont Lithium (PLL), Intrepid Potash (IPI), 5E Advanced Materials (FEAM), Compass Minerals International (CMP), Centrus Energy (LEU), Dakota Gold (DC), Tredegar (TG), ASP Isotopes (ASPI), Northern Technologies International (NTIC), and GrowGeneration (GRWG). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Atlas Lithium (NASDAQ:ATLX) and Piedmont Lithium (NASDAQ:PLL) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, valuation, risk, institutional ownership and earnings.
Atlas Lithium has a beta of -0.34, meaning that its stock price is 134% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Piedmont Lithium has a beta of 0.77, meaning that its stock price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Atlas Lithium currently has a consensus target price of $43.67, suggesting a potential upside of 180.63%. Piedmont Lithium has a consensus target price of $67.00, suggesting a potential upside of 407.19%. Given Piedmont Lithium's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Piedmont Lithium is more favorable than Atlas Lithium.
18.4% of Atlas Lithium shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 52.2% of Piedmont Lithium shares are held by institutional investors. 37.3% of Atlas Lithium shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of Piedmont Lithium shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Piedmont Lithium had 4 more articles in the media than Atlas Lithium. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Piedmont Lithium and 3 mentions for Atlas Lithium. Atlas Lithium's average media sentiment score of 1.19 beat Piedmont Lithium's score of -0.81 indicating that Atlas Lithium is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Piedmont Lithium's return on equity of -7.79% beat Atlas Lithium's return on equity.
Piedmont Lithium has higher revenue and earnings than Atlas Lithium. Piedmont Lithium is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Atlas Lithium, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Piedmont Lithium received 199 more outperform votes than Atlas Lithium when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 80.00% of users gave Atlas Lithium an outperform vote while only 53.35% of users gave Piedmont Lithium an outperform vote.
Summary
Piedmont Lithium beats Atlas Lithium on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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