LAC vs. HBM, MP, SGML, NGD, GSM, CRML, LAAC, MTAL, TMC, and DC
Should you be buying Lithium Americas stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lithium Americas include Hudbay Minerals (HBM), MP Materials (MP), Sigma Lithium (SGML), New Gold (NGD), Ferroglobe (GSM), Critical Metals (CRML), Lithium Americas (Argentina) (LAAC), Metals Acquisition (MTAL), TMC the metals (TMC), and Dakota Gold (DC). These companies are all part of the "metal mining" industry.
Hudbay Minerals (NYSE:HBM) and Lithium Americas (NYSE:LAC) are both basic materials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, risk, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, community ranking and dividends.
Hudbay Minerals received 361 more outperform votes than Lithium Americas when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.59% of users gave Lithium Americas an outperform vote while only 60.23% of users gave Hudbay Minerals an outperform vote.
Hudbay Minerals has higher revenue and earnings than Lithium Americas.
Hudbay Minerals currently has a consensus price target of $10.21, indicating a potential upside of 4.65%. Lithium Americas has a consensus price target of $11.46, indicating a potential upside of 237.92%. Given Hudbay Minerals' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Lithium Americas is more favorable than Hudbay Minerals.
In the previous week, Hudbay Minerals had 9 more articles in the media than Lithium Americas. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for Hudbay Minerals and 7 mentions for Lithium Americas. Lithium Americas' average media sentiment score of 0.77 beat Hudbay Minerals' score of 0.28 indicating that Hudbay Minerals is being referred to more favorably in the media.
57.8% of Hudbay Minerals shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of Hudbay Minerals shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 19.8% of Lithium Americas shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Hudbay Minerals has a net margin of 4.36% compared to Hudbay Minerals' net margin of 0.00%. Lithium Americas' return on equity of 6.22% beat Hudbay Minerals' return on equity.
Summary
Hudbay Minerals beats Lithium Americas on 11 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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