LAC vs. MP, SGML, NGD, GSM, CRML, MTAL, LAAC, TMC, DC, and AMLI
Should you be buying Lithium Americas stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lithium Americas include MP Materials (MP), Sigma Lithium (SGML), New Gold (NGD), Ferroglobe (GSM), Critical Metals (CRML), Metals Acquisition (MTAL), Lithium Americas (Argentina) (LAAC), 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 (NYSE:LAC) are both basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, community ranking, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability, dividends, valuation and analyst recommendations.
MP Materials has higher revenue and earnings than Lithium Americas.
52.6% of MP Materials shares are held by institutional investors. 12.6% of MP Materials shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
MP Materials presently has a consensus target price of $23.64, indicating a potential upside of 61.72%. Lithium Americas has a consensus target price of $11.46, indicating a potential upside of 278.07%. Given MP Materials' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Lithium Americas is more favorable than MP Materials.
In the previous week, Lithium Americas had 6 more articles in the media than MP Materials. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Lithium Americas and 6 mentions for MP Materials. Lithium Americas' average media sentiment score of 1.40 beat MP Materials' score of 0.31 indicating that MP Materials is being referred to more favorably in the media.
MP Materials has a net margin of 1.62% compared to MP Materials' net margin of 0.00%. MP Materials' return on equity of 0.00% beat Lithium Americas' return on equity.
Lithium Americas received 110 more outperform votes than MP Materials when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.95% of users gave MP Materials an outperform vote while only 60.37% of users gave Lithium Americas an outperform vote.
Summary
MP Materials and Lithium Americas tied by winning 7 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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