AVD vs. ATLX, DC, TG, RYAM, ASPI, ODV, PLL, GRWG, FSTR, and NTIC
Should you be buying American Vanguard stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of American Vanguard include Atlas Lithium (ATLX), Dakota Gold (DC), Tredegar (TG), Rayonier Advanced Materials (RYAM), ASP Isotopes (ASPI), Osisko Development (ODV), Piedmont Lithium (PLL), GrowGeneration (GRWG), L.B. Foster (FSTR), and Northern Technologies International (NTIC). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Atlas Lithium (NASDAQ:ATLX) and American Vanguard (NYSE:AVD) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, valuation and community ranking.
American Vanguard has higher revenue and earnings than Atlas Lithium. Atlas Lithium is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than American Vanguard, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
American Vanguard has a net margin of 1.22% compared to American Vanguard's net margin of 0.00%. Atlas Lithium's return on equity of 2.20% beat American Vanguard's return on equity.
Atlas Lithium has a beta of -0.34, meaning that its share price is 134% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, American Vanguard has a beta of 1.05, meaning that its share price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, American Vanguard had 10 more articles in the media than Atlas Lithium. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for American Vanguard and 4 mentions for Atlas Lithium. American Vanguard's average media sentiment score of 0.97 beat Atlas Lithium's score of 0.81 indicating that Atlas Lithium is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Atlas Lithium currently has a consensus price target of $43.67, suggesting a potential upside of 176.20%. American Vanguard has a consensus price target of $18.00, suggesting a potential upside of 97.80%. Given American Vanguard's higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Atlas Lithium is more favorable than American Vanguard.
American Vanguard received 283 more outperform votes than Atlas Lithium when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 80.00% of users gave Atlas Lithium an outperform vote while only 61.13% of users gave American Vanguard an outperform vote.
18.4% of Atlas Lithium shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 79.0% of American Vanguard shares are owned by institutional investors. 37.3% of Atlas Lithium shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 9.3% of American Vanguard shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
American Vanguard beats Atlas Lithium on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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