ATLX vs. LEU, CMP, IPI, PLL, LGO, SND, ABAT, FEAM, MLM, and VMC
Should you be buying Atlas Lithium stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Atlas Lithium include Centrus Energy (LEU), Compass Minerals International (CMP), Intrepid Potash (IPI), Piedmont Lithium (PLL), Largo (LGO), Smart Sand (SND), American Battery Technology (ABAT), 5E Advanced Materials (FEAM), Martin Marietta Materials (MLM), and Vulcan Materials (VMC). These companies are all part of the "mining & quarrying of nonmetallic minerals, except fuels" industry.
Atlas Lithium (NASDAQ:ATLX) and Centrus Energy (NYSE:LEU) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, profitability and risk.
Centrus Energy has a net margin of 23.94% compared to Atlas Lithium's net margin of 0.00%. Centrus Energy's return on equity of 2,962.50% beat Atlas Lithium's return on equity.
18.4% of Atlas Lithium shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 50.0% of Centrus Energy shares are held by institutional investors. 37.3% of Atlas Lithium shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Centrus Energy shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Centrus Energy has higher revenue and earnings than Atlas Lithium. Atlas Lithium is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Centrus Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Atlas Lithium has a beta of -0.34, meaning that its share price is 134% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Centrus Energy has a beta of 1.36, meaning that its share price is 36% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Atlas Lithium received 4 more outperform votes than Centrus Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 80.00% of users gave Atlas Lithium an outperform vote while only 28.57% of users gave Centrus Energy an outperform vote.
Atlas Lithium currently has a consensus target price of $43.67, indicating a potential upside of 206.65%. Centrus Energy has a consensus target price of $67.00, indicating a potential upside of 35.00%. Given Atlas Lithium's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Atlas Lithium is more favorable than Centrus Energy.
In the previous week, Atlas Lithium had 2 more articles in the media than Centrus Energy. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Atlas Lithium and 1 mentions for Centrus Energy. Centrus Energy's average media sentiment score of 1.04 beat Atlas Lithium's score of 0.94 indicating that Centrus Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Centrus Energy beats Atlas Lithium on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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