FAR vs. LAC, SKE, MDI, POM, AMC, SLI, ETG, WRN, AOT, and NDM
Should you be buying Foraco International stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Foraco International include Lithium Americas (LAC), Skeena Resources (SKE), Major Drilling Group International (MDI), PolyMet Mining (POM), Arizona Metals (AMC), Standard Lithium (SLI), Entrée Resources (ETG), Western Copper and Gold (WRN), Ascot Resources (AOT), and Northern Dynasty Minerals (NDM). These companies are all part of the "other industrial metals & mining" industry.
Lithium Americas (TSE:LAC) and Foraco International (TSE:FAR) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, risk, earnings, valuation and institutional ownership.
Lithium Americas presently has a consensus target price of C$9.00, indicating a potential upside of 131.36%. Given Foraco International's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Lithium Americas is more favorable than Foraco International.
Lithium Americas received 101 more outperform votes than Foraco International when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.04% of users gave Foraco International an outperform vote while only 62.60% of users gave Lithium Americas an outperform vote.
Lithium Americas has a beta of 1.58, indicating that its share price is 58% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Foraco International has a beta of 1.3, indicating that its share price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Lithium Americas and Lithium Americas both had 2 articles in the media. Foraco International's average media sentiment score of 0.66 beat Lithium Americas' score of 0.59 indicating that Lithium Americas is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Foraco International has a net margin of 8.62% compared to Foraco International's net margin of -160.61%. Lithium Americas' return on equity of 40.21% beat Foraco International's return on equity.
Foraco International has higher revenue and earnings than Lithium Americas. Lithium Americas is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Foraco International, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
18.1% of Lithium Americas shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 4.8% of Foraco International shares are held by institutional investors. 7.5% of Lithium Americas shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 35.7% of Foraco International shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Foraco International beats Lithium Americas on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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