LAC vs. AFM, ALS, MDI, POM, SKE, GLO, AOT, AMC, SLI, and WRN
Should you be buying Lithium Americas stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lithium Americas include Alphamin Resources (AFM), Altius Minerals (ALS), Major Drilling Group International (MDI), PolyMet Mining (POM), Skeena Resources (SKE), Global Atomic (GLO), Ascot Resources (AOT), Arizona Metals (AMC), Standard Lithium (SLI), and Western Copper and Gold (WRN). These companies are all part of the "other industrial metals & mining" industry.
Alphamin Resources (CVE:AFM) and Lithium Americas (TSE:LAC) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, media sentiment, profitability, earnings and risk.
Alphamin Resources has higher revenue and earnings than Lithium Americas. Lithium Americas is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Alphamin Resources, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Lithium Americas had 1 more articles in the media than Alphamin Resources. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Lithium Americas and 3 mentions for Alphamin Resources. Alphamin Resources' average media sentiment score of 0.09 beat Lithium Americas' score of 0.00 indicating that Lithium Americas is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Alphamin Resources has a beta of 1.28, meaning that its share price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lithium Americas has a beta of 1.58, meaning that its share price is 58% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Alphamin Resources has a net margin of 16.36% compared to Alphamin Resources' net margin of -160.61%. Lithium Americas' return on equity of 16.79% beat Alphamin Resources' return on equity.
Lithium Americas received 147 more outperform votes than Alphamin Resources when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 72.41% of users gave Alphamin Resources an outperform vote while only 62.94% of users gave Lithium Americas an outperform vote.
2.3% of Alphamin Resources shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 18.1% of Lithium Americas shares are held by institutional investors. 58.6% of Alphamin Resources shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 7.5% of Lithium Americas shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Lithium Americas has a consensus price target of C$12.00, suggesting a potential upside of 158.62%. Given Alphamin Resources' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Lithium Americas is more favorable than Alphamin Resources.
Summary
Alphamin Resources and Lithium Americas tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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