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Piedmont Lithium (PLL) Competitors

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$7.32 -0.64 (-7.98%)
Closing price 08/29/2025
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PLL vs. ALB, LAC, GHM, CMCO, OFLX, FSTR, BOOM, EML, NNBR, and HURC

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), NN (NNBR), and Hurco Companies (HURC).

Piedmont Lithium vs. Its Competitors

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

Albemarle has a beta of 1.64, meaning that its stock price is 64% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Piedmont Lithium has a beta of 0.32, meaning that its stock price is 68% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Albemarle presently has a consensus target price of $86.47, suggesting a potential upside of 6.79%. Piedmont Lithium has a consensus target price of $10.94, suggesting a potential upside of 49.32%. Given Piedmont Lithium's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Piedmont Lithium is more favorable than Albemarle.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Albemarle
4 Sell rating(s)
10 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
1.94
Piedmont Lithium
1 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.20

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 hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Albemarle has a net margin of -18.61% compared to Piedmont Lithium's net margin of -50.60%. 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 -50.60%-18.57%-16.06%

In the previous week, Albemarle had 14 more articles in the media than Piedmont Lithium. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Albemarle and 1 mentions for Piedmont Lithium. Piedmont Lithium's average media sentiment score of 1.91 beat Albemarle's score of 1.12 indicating that Piedmont Lithium is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Albemarle Positive
Piedmont Lithium Very Positive

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$5.38B1.77-$1.18B-$9.32-8.69
Piedmont Lithium$99.88M1.61-$64.76M-$2.56-2.86

Summary

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

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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PLL vs. The Competition

MetricPiedmont LithiumMINING IndustryMaterials SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$160.78M$6.71B$3.64B$10.27B
Dividend YieldN/A1.93%5.05%4.60%
P/E Ratio-2.8619.37158.1226.41
Price / Sales1.61623.5216,462.8288.61
Price / CashN/A28.7624.1829.91
Price / Book0.487.186.666.28
Net Income-$64.76M$279.19M$149.17M$270.38M
7 Day PerformanceN/A4.25%2.00%2.70%
1 Month Performance-23.30%11.80%10.54%5.99%
1 Year Performance-1.28%59.02%44.96%25.94%

Piedmont Lithium Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
PLL
Piedmont Lithium
2.0625 of 5 stars
$7.33
-8.0%
$10.94
+49.3%
-1.3%$160.78M$99.88M-2.8639,900Positive News
High Trading Volume
ALB
Albemarle
3.3694 of 5 stars
$81.95
+0.5%
$86.47
+5.5%
-13.0%$9.64B$5.38B-8.798,300Positive News
Ex-Dividend
Gap Up
LAC
Lithium Americas
1.8929 of 5 stars
$2.97
+2.6%
$4.15
+40.0%
+19.7%$716.52MN/A-12.89749Positive News
GHM
Graham
4.6174 of 5 stars
$47.82
+0.1%
$60.00
+25.5%
+65.7%$525.02M$209.90M37.95490
CMCO
Columbus McKinnon
3.7437 of 5 stars
$14.91
+0.1%
$35.00
+134.7%
-53.3%$428.36M$963.03M-27.613,478Positive News
OFLX
Omega Flex
2.2981 of 5 stars
$34.76
-0.7%
N/A-32.8%$350.73M$101.68M20.69170Dividend Announcement
FSTR
L.B. Foster
3.0447 of 5 stars
$27.19
+2.5%
$25.00
-8.1%
+38.1%$288.21M$530.77M8.191,057Analyst Upgrade
BOOM
DMC Global
2.4318 of 5 stars
$7.35
+3.7%
$8.50
+15.6%
-34.4%$151.26M$642.85M-0.851,600Positive News
EML
Eastern
1.4979 of 5 stars
$24.07
+0.5%
N/A-19.3%$146.83M$272.75M-18.231,246Short Interest ↓
NNBR
NN
1.9431 of 5 stars
$2.51
+0.8%
$4.00
+59.4%
-36.1%$126.63M$464.29M-2.222,900
HURC
Hurco Companies
2.0098 of 5 stars
$17.65
-1.6%
N/A-8.0%$114.90M$186.58M-8.40740News Coverage
Positive News
Short Interest ↓

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This page (NASDAQ:PLL) was last updated on 9/15/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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