CRTM vs. THR, REE, JAN, AFP, EUZ, SKA, UMR, ARK, TM1, and IRON
Should you be buying Critical Metals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Critical Metals include Thor Energy (THR), Altona Rare Earths (REE), Jangada Mines (JAN), African Pioneer (AFP), Europa Metals (EUZ), Shuka Minerals (SKA), Unicorn Mineral Resources Public (UMR), Arkle Resources (ARK), Technology Minerals (TM1), and Ironveld (IRON). These companies are all part of the "other industrial metals & mining" industry.
Critical Metals vs.
Thor Energy (LON:THR) and Critical Metals (LON:CRTM) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, valuation and profitability.
In the previous week, Critical Metals had 1 more articles in the media than Thor Energy. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Critical Metals and 0 mentions for Thor Energy. Critical Metals' average media sentiment score of 0.05 beat Thor Energy's score of 0.00 indicating that Critical Metals is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
0.2% of Thor Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 3.0% of Critical Metals shares are owned by institutional investors. 17.7% of Thor Energy shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 41.2% of Critical Metals shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Thor Energy has a beta of 0.36, indicating that its share price is 64% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Critical Metals has a beta of 1.7, indicating that its share price is 70% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Thor Energy received 168 more outperform votes than Critical Metals when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Critical Metals an outperform vote while only 52.48% of users gave Thor Energy an outperform vote.
Critical Metals has higher revenue and earnings than Thor Energy. Thor Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Critical Metals, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Thor Energy has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Critical Metals' net margin of -5,636.57%. Thor Energy's return on equity of -18.71% beat Critical Metals' return on equity.
Summary
Critical Metals beats Thor Energy on 9 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of LON and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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This page (LON:CRTM) was last updated on 4/26/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff