ALS vs. LAC, MDI, SKE, AOT, WRN, ETG, FAR, CHE.UN, KRR, and IFP
Should you be buying Altius Minerals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Altius Minerals include Lithium Americas (LAC), Major Drilling Group International (MDI), Skeena Resources (SKE), Ascot Resources (AOT), Western Copper and Gold (WRN), Entrée Resources (ETG), Foraco International (FAR), Chemtrade Logistics Income Fund (CHE.UN), Karora Resources (KRR), and Interfor (IFP). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Altius Minerals (TSE:ALS) and Lithium Americas (TSE:LAC) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, risk, earnings, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation and profitability.
Altius Minerals received 22 more outperform votes than Lithium Americas when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.84% of users gave Lithium Americas an outperform vote while only 61.17% of users gave Altius Minerals an outperform vote.
Altius Minerals has a net margin of 13.83% compared to Lithium Americas' net margin of 0.00%. Altius Minerals' return on equity of 1.66% beat Lithium Americas' return on equity.
Altius Minerals currently has a consensus target price of C$22.71, suggesting a potential upside of 5.01%. Lithium Americas has a consensus target price of C$22.75, suggesting a potential upside of 276.03%. Given Lithium Americas' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Lithium Americas is more favorable than Altius Minerals.
In the previous week, Lithium Americas had 6 more articles in the media than Altius Minerals. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Lithium Americas and 11 mentions for Altius Minerals. Lithium Americas' average media sentiment score of 0.39 beat Altius Minerals' score of 0.06 indicating that Lithium Americas is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Altius Minerals has a beta of 0.93, indicating that its stock price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lithium Americas has a beta of 1.58, indicating that its stock price is 58% more volatile than the S&P 500.
24.7% of Altius Minerals shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 25.2% of Lithium Americas shares are held by institutional investors. 18.8% of Altius Minerals shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Lithium Americas shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Altius Minerals has higher revenue and earnings than Lithium Americas. Lithium Americas is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Altius Minerals, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Altius Minerals beats Lithium Americas on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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