Tertiary Minerals (TYM) Competitors

Tertiary Minerals (LON:TYM) and CleanTech Lithium (LON:CTL) 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 dividends, community ranking, media sentiment, risk, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation and earnings.

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in TYM or CTL?

Tertiary Minerals received 97 more outperform votes than CleanTech Lithium when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave CleanTech Lithium an outperform vote while only 47.85% of users gave Tertiary Minerals an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Tertiary Minerals	Outperform Votes 100 47.85%	Underperform Votes 109 52.15%
CleanTech Lithium	Outperform Votes 3 100.00%	Underperform Votes No Votes

Which has higher valuation and earnings, TYM or CTL?

Tertiary Minerals has higher revenue and earnings than CleanTech Lithium. CleanTech Lithium is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Tertiary Minerals, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Tertiary Minerals	£310.43K	4.70	-£947.19K	-£0.03	-1.55
CleanTech Lithium	N/A	N/A	-£2.19M	-£2.87	-3.49

Does the media prefer TYM or CTL?

In the previous week, Tertiary Minerals' average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled CleanTech Lithium'saverage media sentiment score.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Tertiary Minerals	Neutral
CleanTech Lithium	Neutral

Which has more risk and volatility, TYM or CTL?

Tertiary Minerals has a beta of -0.5, meaning that its share price is 150% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CleanTech Lithium has a beta of -0.79, meaning that its share price is 179% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Is TYM or CTL more profitable?

CleanTech Lithium has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Tertiary Minerals' net margin of -305.12%. CleanTech Lithium's return on equity of -22.14% beat Tertiary Minerals' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Tertiary Minerals	-305.12%	-61.49%	-34.97%
CleanTech Lithium	N/A	-22.14%	-13.50%

Do insiders and institutionals have more ownership in TYM or CTL?

4.8% of Tertiary Minerals shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 16.8% of CleanTech Lithium shares are held by institutional investors. 47.7% of Tertiary Minerals shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 12.5% of CleanTech Lithium shares are held by company 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.

Summary

Tertiary Minerals beats CleanTech Lithium on 7 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.