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Lithium Americas (LAC) Competitors

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C$10.52 -0.81 (-7.15%)
As of 10/10/2025 04:00 PM Eastern

LAC vs. TRQ, HBM, NXE, PVG, ERO, BCB, IE, CXB, NEXA, and ASM

Should you be buying Lithium Americas stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lithium Americas include Turquoise Hill Resources (TRQ), Hudbay Minerals (HBM), NexGen Energy (NXE), Pretium Resources (PVG), Ero Copper (ERO), Cott (BCB), Ivanhoe Electric (IE), Calibre Mining (CXB), Nexa Resources (NEXA), and Avino Silver & Gold Mines (ASM). These companies are all part of the "non-metallic and industrial metal mining" industry.

Lithium Americas vs. Its Competitors

Turquoise Hill Resources (TSE:TRQ) and Lithium Americas (TSE:LAC) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, dividends, media sentiment, valuation and earnings.

Turquoise Hill Resources has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Lithium Americas' net margin of -51,108.92%. Turquoise Hill Resources' return on equity of 0.00% beat Lithium Americas' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Turquoise Hill ResourcesN/A N/A N/A
Lithium Americas -51,108.92%-5.10%-3.41%

In the previous week, Lithium Americas had 5 more articles in the media than Turquoise Hill Resources. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Lithium Americas and 0 mentions for Turquoise Hill Resources. Lithium Americas' average media sentiment score of 0.20 beat Turquoise Hill Resources' score of 0.00 indicating that Lithium Americas is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Turquoise Hill Resources Neutral
Lithium Americas Neutral

Turquoise Hill Resources has higher revenue and earnings than Lithium Americas. Lithium Americas is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Turquoise Hill Resources, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Turquoise Hill ResourcesC$1.65B0.00C$730.47MC$3.63N/A
Lithium AmericasN/AN/A-C$20.27M-C$0.25-42.08

10.7% of Lithium Americas shares are held by institutional investors. 7.4% of Lithium Americas shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Lithium Americas has a consensus price target of C$8.13, suggesting a potential downside of 22.77%. Given Turquoise Hill Resources' higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Turquoise Hill Resources is more favorable than Lithium Americas.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Turquoise Hill Resources
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00
Lithium Americas
2 Sell rating(s)
6 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00

Summary

Turquoise Hill Resources beats Lithium Americas on 8 of the 14 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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LAC vs. The Competition

MetricLithium AmericasOther Industrial Metals & Mining IndustryMaterials SectorTSE Exchange
Market CapC$2.60BC$1.11BC$3.71BC$9.53B
Dividend YieldN/A6.09%5.07%6.52%
P/E Ratio-42.08136.79157.3329.30
Price / SalesN/A53,537.5325,928.4412.90
Price / Cash10.9124.7024.3283.29
Price / Book3.279.207.265.73
Net Income-C$20.27MC$71.69MC$148.99MC$301.20M
7 Day Performance-10.70%7.48%3.30%-1.53%
1 Month Performance165.66%25.07%14.91%4.35%
1 Year Performance163.66%120.47%65.46%37.36%

Lithium Americas Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
LAC
Lithium Americas
0.4735 of 5 stars
C$10.52
-7.1%
C$8.13
-22.8%
+163.7%C$2.60BN/A-42.08749High Trading Volume
TRQ
Turquoise Hill Resources
N/AN/AN/AN/AC$8.65BC$1.65B11.843,480
HBM
Hudbay Minerals
1.5673 of 5 stars
C$21.85
-0.5%
C$17.25
-21.1%
+80.3%C$8.65BC$2.20B29.932,500Analyst Revision
NXE
NexGen Energy
1.274 of 5 stars
C$12.61
+3.6%
C$13.75
+9.0%
+25.6%C$7.25BN/A-38.2177High Trading Volume
PVG
Pretium Resources
N/AN/AN/AN/AC$3.60BC$611.14M-76.60112
ERO
Ero Copper
1.7076 of 5 stars
C$30.23
+1.0%
C$26.14
-13.5%
+4.0%C$3.13BC$535.97M21.912,460News Coverage
Analyst Downgrade
Analyst Revision
BCB
Cott
N/AN/AN/AN/AC$2.64BC$2.39B976.0010,900High Trading Volume
IE
Ivanhoe Electric
1.2076 of 5 stars
C$17.00
-2.1%
C$18.00
+5.9%
+64.3%C$2.26BC$3.81M-26.56244High Trading Volume
CXB
Calibre Mining
N/AC$2.99
flat
C$3.76
+25.7%
N/AC$1.80BC$404.24M55.92N/A
NEXA
Nexa Resources
N/AN/AN/AN/AC$1.34BC$2.58B6.465,349High Trading Volume
ASM
Avino Silver & Gold Mines
N/AC$7.52
-1.1%
N/A+319.6%C$1.10BC$79.64M68.3634Positive News

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This page (TSE:LAC) was last updated on 10/13/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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