LAC vs. LEU, AESI, ERO, TMC, MTAL, NEXA, SGML, ASM, EU, and DC
Should you be buying Lithium Americas stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lithium Americas include Centrus Energy (LEU), Atlas Energy Solutions (AESI), Ero Copper (ERO), TMC the metals (TMC), Metals Acquisition (MTAL), Nexa Resources (NEXA), Sigma Lithium (SGML), Avino Silver & Gold Mines (ASM), enCore Energy (EU), and Dakota Gold (DC). These companies are all part of the "non-metallic and industrial metal mining" industry.
Lithium Americas vs.
Lithium Americas (NYSE:LAC) and Centrus Energy (NYSE:LEU) are both basic materials companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, media sentiment, earnings, profitability, risk, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation and institutional ownership.
Centrus Energy has higher revenue and earnings than Lithium Americas. Lithium Americas is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Centrus Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Centrus Energy has a net margin of 16.56% compared to Lithium Americas' net margin of 0.00%. Centrus Energy's return on equity of 84.09% beat Lithium Americas' return on equity.
50.0% of Centrus Energy shares are held by institutional investors. 1.1% of Lithium Americas shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Centrus Energy shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Lithium Americas presently has a consensus price target of $3.88, indicating a potential upside of 40.65%. Centrus Energy has a consensus price target of $146.00, indicating a potential upside of 0.05%. Given Lithium Americas' higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Lithium Americas is more favorable than Centrus Energy.
Lithium Americas has a beta of 0.67, meaning that its share price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Centrus Energy has a beta of 1.37, meaning that its share price is 37% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Centrus Energy had 28 more articles in the media than Lithium Americas. MarketBeat recorded 31 mentions for Centrus Energy and 3 mentions for Lithium Americas. Centrus Energy's average media sentiment score of 1.30 beat Lithium Americas' score of 0.97 indicating that Centrus Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Lithium Americas received 157 more outperform votes than Centrus Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.54% of users gave Lithium Americas an outperform vote while only 39.29% of users gave Centrus Energy an outperform vote.
Summary
Centrus Energy beats Lithium Americas on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:LAC) was last updated on 6/11/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
