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.
Lithium Americas (NYSE:LAC) and Hudbay Minerals (NYSE:HBM) are both basic materials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, profitability, media sentiment, dividends, valuation and earnings.
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.
In the previous week, Lithium Americas had 3 more articles in the media than Hudbay Minerals. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Lithium Americas and 11 mentions for Hudbay Minerals. Hudbay Minerals' average media sentiment score of 0.84 beat Lithium Americas' score of 0.37 indicating that Hudbay Minerals is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Lithium Americas presently has a consensus price target of $11.46, suggesting a potential upside of 216.02%. Hudbay Minerals has a consensus price target of $10.21, suggesting a potential upside of 2.25%. Given Lithium Americas' higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Lithium Americas is more favorable than Hudbay Minerals.
57.8% of Hudbay Minerals shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of Hudbay Minerals shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Hudbay Minerals has a net margin of 4.36% compared to Lithium Americas' net margin of 0.00%. Hudbay Minerals' return on equity of 6.22% beat Lithium Americas' return on equity.
Hudbay Minerals has higher revenue and earnings than Lithium Americas.
Summary
Hudbay Minerals beats Lithium Americas on 11 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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