MTAL vs. SGML, NGD, GSM, LAC, CRML, LAAC, TMC, AMLI, ASM, and BHP
Should you be buying Metals Acquisition stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Metals Acquisition include Sigma Lithium (SGML), New Gold (NGD), Ferroglobe (GSM), Lithium Americas (LAC), Critical Metals (CRML), Lithium Americas (Argentina) (LAAC), TMC the metals (TMC), American Lithium (AMLI), Avino Silver & Gold Mines (ASM), and BHP Group (BHP). These companies are all part of the "metal mining" industry.
Sigma Lithium (NASDAQ:SGML) and Metals Acquisition (NYSE:MTAL) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, community ranking and dividends.
Sigma Lithium received 9 more outperform votes than Metals Acquisition when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 77.78% of users gave Metals Acquisition an outperform vote while only 64.00% of users gave Sigma Lithium an outperform vote.
Sigma Lithium has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Metals Acquisition.
Sigma Lithium currently has a consensus target price of $29.50, suggesting a potential upside of 92.94%. Metals Acquisition has a consensus target price of $14.00, suggesting a potential downside of 5.72%. Given Metals Acquisition's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Sigma Lithium is more favorable than Metals Acquisition.
Sigma Lithium's return on equity of 0.00% beat Metals Acquisition's return on equity.
In the previous week, Metals Acquisition had 7 more articles in the media than Sigma Lithium. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Metals Acquisition and 5 mentions for Sigma Lithium. Metals Acquisition's average media sentiment score of 0.47 beat Sigma Lithium's score of 0.24 indicating that Sigma Lithium is being referred to more favorably in the media.
64.9% of Sigma Lithium shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.5% of Metals Acquisition shares are owned by institutional investors. 48.6% of Sigma Lithium shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of Metals Acquisition shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Sigma Lithium has a beta of 0.24, suggesting that its stock price is 76% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Metals Acquisition has a beta of 0.02, suggesting that its stock price is 98% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Sigma Lithium beats Metals Acquisition on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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