CRML vs. LAC, LAAC, MTAL, NEXA, GSM, TMC, DC, NGD, MP, and GATO
Should you be buying Critical Metals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Critical Metals include Lithium Americas (LAC), Lithium Americas (Argentina) (LAAC), Metals Acquisition (MTAL), Nexa Resources (NEXA), Ferroglobe (GSM), TMC the metals (TMC), Dakota Gold (DC), New Gold (NGD), MP Materials (MP), and Gatos Silver (GATO). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Critical Metals (NASDAQ:CRML) and Lithium Americas (NYSE:LAC) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, dividends and media sentiment.
In the previous week, Lithium Americas had 8 more articles in the media than Critical Metals. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Lithium Americas and 5 mentions for Critical Metals. Critical Metals' average media sentiment score of 0.57 beat Lithium Americas' score of 0.36 indicating that Critical Metals is being referred to more favorably in the media.
86.4% of Critical Metals shares are owned by institutional investors. 65.7% of Critical Metals shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Lithium Americas received 163 more outperform votes than Critical Metals when rated by MarketBeat users.
Lithium Americas has a consensus price target of $11.46, indicating a potential upside of 240.94%. Given Lithium Americas' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Lithium Americas is more favorable than Critical Metals.
Summary
Critical Metals and Lithium Americas tied by winning 4 of the 8 factors compared between the two stocks.
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