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Piedmont Lithium (PLL) Competitors

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$7.27 -0.03 (-0.41%)
Closing price 08/1/2025 04:00 PM Eastern
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PLL vs. ALB, LAC, GHM, CMCO, OFLX, FSTR, BOOM, EML, HURC, and NNBR

Should you be buying Piedmont Lithium stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Piedmont Lithium include Albemarle (ALB), Lithium Americas (LAC), Graham (GHM), Columbus McKinnon (CMCO), Omega Flex (OFLX), L.B. Foster (FSTR), DMC Global (BOOM), Eastern (EML), Hurco Companies (HURC), and NN (NNBR).

Piedmont Lithium vs. Its Competitors

Albemarle (NYSE:ALB) and Piedmont Lithium (NASDAQ:PLL) are both basic materials companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, valuation, risk, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings and dividends.

Albemarle has a beta of 1.63, indicating that its stock price is 63% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Piedmont Lithium has a beta of 0.26, indicating that its stock price is 74% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Albemarle presently has a consensus target price of $89.78, indicating a potential upside of 32.14%. Piedmont Lithium has a consensus target price of $12.75, indicating a potential upside of 75.38%. Given Piedmont Lithium's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Piedmont Lithium is more favorable than Albemarle.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Albemarle
5 Sell rating(s)
9 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
1.88
Piedmont Lithium
1 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.33

92.9% of Albemarle shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 52.2% of Piedmont Lithium shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of Albemarle shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of Piedmont Lithium shares are held by company 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.

Piedmont Lithium has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Albemarle. Albemarle is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Piedmont Lithium, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Albemarle$5.38B1.49-$1.18B-$9.32-7.29
Piedmont Lithium$99.88M1.60-$64.76M-$2.81-2.59

Albemarle has a net margin of -18.61% compared to Piedmont Lithium's net margin of -53.33%. Albemarle's return on equity of -1.87% beat Piedmont Lithium's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Albemarle-18.61% -1.87% -0.89%
Piedmont Lithium -53.33%-19.46%-16.88%

In the previous week, Albemarle had 34 more articles in the media than Piedmont Lithium. MarketBeat recorded 36 mentions for Albemarle and 2 mentions for Piedmont Lithium. Albemarle's average media sentiment score of 0.41 beat Piedmont Lithium's score of 0.39 indicating that Albemarle is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Albemarle
13 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
8 Neutral mention(s)
2 Negative mention(s)
1 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
Piedmont Lithium
1 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral

Summary

Albemarle beats Piedmont Lithium on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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PLL vs. The Competition

MetricPiedmont LithiumMINING IndustryMaterials SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$159.58M$5.80B$3.17B$9.34B
Dividend YieldN/A2.09%5.20%4.13%
P/E Ratio-2.5923.81116.9723.78
Price / Sales1.60464.2730,017,513,221,268,900.00179.75
Price / CashN/A28.0123.8227.20
Price / Book0.477.565.875.61
Net Income-$64.76M$278.61M$148.86M$265.26M
7 Day Performance-6.31%-5.99%-2.48%-4.34%
1 Month Performance10.74%3.60%0.79%4.11%
1 Year Performance-20.37%39.50%28.23%17.92%

Piedmont Lithium Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
PLL
Piedmont Lithium
1.9437 of 5 stars
$7.27
-0.4%
$12.75
+75.4%
-20.4%$159.58M$99.88M-2.5940Upcoming Earnings
ALB
Albemarle
4.3629 of 5 stars
$77.11
+0.0%
$91.00
+18.0%
-21.9%$9.07B$5.38B-6.938,300Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
LAC
Lithium Americas
2.0347 of 5 stars
$3.13
-4.7%
$3.88
+24.0%
+6.7%$684.06MN/A-19.53749High Trading Volume
GHM
Graham
3.3459 of 5 stars
$51.93
+1.1%
$60.00
+15.5%
+82.1%$570.19M$209.90M46.78490Upcoming Earnings
Gap Down
CMCO
Columbus McKinnon
3.8304 of 5 stars
$15.04
-1.4%
$35.00
+132.7%
-60.4%$437.78M$963.03M-88.473,478Earnings Report
OFLX
Omega Flex
2.9885 of 5 stars
$33.11
-0.4%
N/A-35.6%$334.08M$101.68M19.25170Earnings Report
Gap Down
FSTR
L.B. Foster
3.957 of 5 stars
$22.38
-1.6%
$25.00
+11.7%
+1.4%$236.33M$530.77M6.761,057News Coverage
Upcoming Earnings
Gap Down
BOOM
DMC Global
1.5698 of 5 stars
$8.02
+3.4%
$16.25
+102.6%
-39.7%$164.33M$642.85M-0.981,600Upcoming Earnings
EML
Eastern
1.5428 of 5 stars
$22.57
-0.8%
N/A-20.4%$138.74M$271.44M-17.101,246Upcoming Earnings
HURC
Hurco Companies
0.9993 of 5 stars
$18.53
-6.6%
N/A+13.3%$120.58M$183.63M-6.20740Short Interest ↑
NNBR
NN
2.7538 of 5 stars
$2.01
+1.5%
N/A-43.8%$101.40M$464.29M-2.032,900News Coverage
Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Revision

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This page (NASDAQ:PLL) was last updated on 8/4/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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