LAAC vs. MP, SGML, NGD, GSM, CRML, LAC, MTAL, TMC, DC, and AMLI
Should you be buying Lithium Americas (Argentina) stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lithium Americas (Argentina) include MP Materials (MP), Sigma Lithium (SGML), New Gold (NGD), Ferroglobe (GSM), Critical Metals (CRML), Lithium Americas (LAC), Metals Acquisition (MTAL), TMC the metals (TMC), Dakota Gold (DC), and American Lithium (AMLI). These companies are all part of the "metal mining" industry.
MP Materials (NYSE:MP) and Lithium Americas (Argentina) (NYSE:LAAC) are both basic materials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, community ranking, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, earnings and dividends.
MP Materials has a net margin of 1.62% compared to MP Materials' net margin of 0.00%. MP Materials' return on equity of 3.09% beat Lithium Americas (Argentina)'s return on equity.
Lithium Americas (Argentina) has lower revenue, but higher earnings than MP Materials. MP Materials is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Lithium Americas (Argentina), indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
MP Materials has a beta of 2.31, suggesting that its share price is 131% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lithium Americas (Argentina) has a beta of 1.33, suggesting that its share price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500.
52.6% of MP Materials shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 49.2% of Lithium Americas (Argentina) shares are held by institutional investors. 12.6% of MP Materials shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 19.8% of Lithium Americas (Argentina) shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
MP Materials received 46 more outperform votes than Lithium Americas (Argentina) when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.95% of users gave MP Materials an outperform vote while only 50.00% of users gave Lithium Americas (Argentina) an outperform vote.
MP Materials currently has a consensus target price of $23.64, indicating a potential upside of 45.76%. Lithium Americas (Argentina) has a consensus target price of $9.40, indicating a potential upside of 107.05%. Given MP Materials' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Lithium Americas (Argentina) is more favorable than MP Materials.
In the previous week, MP Materials had 8 more articles in the media than Lithium Americas (Argentina). MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for MP Materials and 4 mentions for Lithium Americas (Argentina). MP Materials' average media sentiment score of 1.35 beat Lithium Americas (Argentina)'s score of 0.20 indicating that Lithium Americas (Argentina) is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Lithium Americas (Argentina) beats MP Materials on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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