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.
Metals Acquisition (NYSE:MTAL) and Sigma Lithium (NASDAQ:SGML) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, risk and community ranking.
Sigma Lithium has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Metals Acquisition.
Metals Acquisition presently has a consensus target price of $14.00, suggesting a potential downside of 5.72%. Sigma Lithium has a consensus target price of $29.50, suggesting a potential upside of 92.94%. Given Sigma Lithium's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Sigma Lithium is more favorable than Metals Acquisition.
Metals Acquisition has a beta of 0.02, meaning that its stock price is 98% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sigma Lithium has a beta of 0.24, meaning that its stock price is 76% less volatile than the S&P 500.
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.
87.5% of Metals Acquisition shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.9% of Sigma Lithium shares are held by institutional investors. 1.8% of Metals Acquisition shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 48.6% of Sigma Lithium shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Metals Acquisition had 9 more articles in the media than Sigma Lithium. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Metals Acquisition and 4 mentions for Sigma Lithium. Sigma Lithium's average media sentiment score of 0.47 beat Metals Acquisition's score of 0.26 indicating that Sigma Lithium is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Metals Acquisition's return on equity of 0.00% beat Sigma Lithium's return on equity.
Summary
Sigma Lithium beats Metals Acquisition on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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