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.
Lithium Americas (NYSE:LAC) and Ferroglobe (NASDAQ:GSM) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, dividends, earnings, profitability, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
89.6% of Ferroglobe shares are owned by institutional investors. 19.8% of Lithium Americas shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 13.1% of Ferroglobe shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
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.
Ferroglobe has higher revenue and earnings than Lithium Americas.
Lithium Americas presently has a consensus target price of $11.46, suggesting a potential upside of 161.54%. Given Lithium Americas' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Lithium Americas is more favorable than Ferroglobe.
Ferroglobe has a net margin of 5.29% compared to Lithium Americas' net margin of 0.00%. Ferroglobe's return on equity of 16.74% beat Lithium Americas' return on equity.
In the previous week, Lithium Americas had 9 more articles in the media than Ferroglobe. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Lithium Americas and 6 mentions for Ferroglobe. Lithium Americas' average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat Ferroglobe's score of 0.42 indicating that Lithium Americas is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Ferroglobe beats Lithium Americas on 8 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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