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Piedmont Lithium (PLL) Competitors

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$10.47 -1.78 (-14.53%)
(As of 11/20/2024 ET)

PLL vs. HY, PRLB, ERII, GHM, FSTR, NNBR, EML, BOOM, HURC, and AP

Should you be buying Piedmont Lithium stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Piedmont Lithium include Hyster-Yale Materials Handling (HY), Proto Labs (PRLB), Energy Recovery (ERII), Graham (GHM), L.B. Foster (FSTR), NN (NNBR), Eastern (EML), DMC Global (BOOM), Hurco Companies (HURC), and Ampco-Pittsburgh (AP). These companies are all part of the "industrial machinery" industry.

Piedmont Lithium vs.

Hyster-Yale Materials Handling (NYSE:HY) and Piedmont Lithium (NASDAQ:PLL) are both small-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment, dividends, earnings, valuation and community ranking.

Hyster-Yale Materials Handling has a beta of 1.32, suggesting that its stock price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Piedmont Lithium has a beta of 0.74, suggesting that its stock price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Hyster-Yale Materials Handling received 28 more outperform votes than Piedmont Lithium when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 56.77% of users gave Hyster-Yale Materials Handling an outperform vote while only 52.88% of users gave Piedmont Lithium an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Hyster-Yale Materials HandlingOutperform Votes
239
56.77%
Underperform Votes
182
43.23%
Piedmont LithiumOutperform Votes
211
52.88%
Underperform Votes
188
47.12%

In the previous week, Piedmont Lithium had 15 more articles in the media than Hyster-Yale Materials Handling. MarketBeat recorded 27 mentions for Piedmont Lithium and 12 mentions for Hyster-Yale Materials Handling. Hyster-Yale Materials Handling's average media sentiment score of 0.43 beat Piedmont Lithium's score of 0.02 indicating that Hyster-Yale Materials Handling is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Hyster-Yale Materials Handling
2 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
6 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
Piedmont Lithium
6 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
9 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
1 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral

46.5% of Hyster-Yale Materials Handling shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 52.2% of Piedmont Lithium shares are owned by institutional investors. 33.9% of Hyster-Yale Materials Handling shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of Piedmont Lithium shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Hyster-Yale Materials Handling currently has a consensus price target of $80.00, indicating a potential upside of 47.55%. Piedmont Lithium has a consensus price target of $19.69, indicating a potential upside of 88.02%. Given Piedmont Lithium's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Piedmont Lithium is more favorable than Hyster-Yale Materials Handling.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Hyster-Yale Materials Handling
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.67
Piedmont Lithium
2 Sell rating(s)
4 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00

Hyster-Yale Materials Handling has higher revenue and earnings than Piedmont Lithium. Piedmont Lithium is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hyster-Yale Materials Handling, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Hyster-Yale Materials Handling$4.27B0.22$125.90M$8.916.09
Piedmont Lithium$39.82M5.11-$21.78M-$4.09-2.56

Hyster-Yale Materials Handling has a net margin of 3.68% compared to Piedmont Lithium's net margin of 0.00%. Hyster-Yale Materials Handling's return on equity of 34.77% beat Piedmont Lithium's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Hyster-Yale Materials Handling3.68% 34.77% 7.41%
Piedmont Lithium N/A -21.33%-18.92%

Summary

Hyster-Yale Materials Handling beats Piedmont Lithium on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

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PLL vs. The Competition

MetricPiedmont LithiumMining & quarrying of nonmetallic minerals, except fuels IndustryMaterials SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$238.11M$6.42B$2.81B$8.81B
Dividend YieldN/A1.03%5.28%4.06%
P/E Ratio-2.5658.08119.6817.77
Price / Sales5.1120.85590,601.4475.18
Price / CashN/A18.3723.2032.53
Price / Book0.714.283.374.68
Net Income-$21.78M$260.20M$149.36M$226.08M
7 Day Performance-12.38%-0.69%0.60%-1.04%
1 Month Performance-0.57%-2.67%1.38%1.04%
1 Year Performance-62.79%9.71%26.99%26.28%

Piedmont Lithium Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
PLL
Piedmont Lithium
2.5173 of 5 stars
$10.47
-14.5%
$19.69
+88.0%
-64.3%$238.11M$39.82M-2.5640Analyst Downgrade
Analyst Revision
Gap Down
HY
Hyster-Yale Materials Handling
3.9118 of 5 stars
$54.22
+0.1%
$80.00
+47.5%
+16.3%$949.28M$4.27B6.078,600Buyback Announcement
PRLB
Proto Labs
1.5957 of 5 stars
$39.25
+6.1%
$40.33
+2.8%
+7.5%$907.12M$503.88M41.762,415Positive News
ERII
Energy Recovery
4.6582 of 5 stars
$15.50
+1.0%
$20.33
+31.2%
-21.2%$897.30M$128.35M45.74250Analyst Forecast
GHM
Graham
4.2111 of 5 stars
$42.74
+0.1%
$35.00
-18.1%
+136.5%$464.79M$196.40M60.20490
FSTR
L.B. Foster
4.5652 of 5 stars
$26.32
+2.4%
$25.00
-5.0%
+32.1%$285.05M$537.46M6.771,065Analyst Revision
NNBR
NN
2.6201 of 5 stars
$3.79
-3.8%
$6.00
+58.5%
+59.0%$196.29M$489.27M0.003,160
EML
Eastern
1.6117 of 5 stars
$28.21
+3.1%
N/A+49.4%$169.11M$284.46M-27.391,199
BOOM
DMC Global
3.3691 of 5 stars
$7.27
-3.7%
$16.00
+120.1%
-54.7%$145.59M$664.51M-0.921,800Analyst Downgrade
Gap Down
HURC
Hurco Companies
1.3397 of 5 stars
$21.15
-1.2%
N/A+2.7%$138.02M$198.99M-10.74740Analyst Downgrade
AP
Ampco-Pittsburgh
0.954 of 5 stars
$1.76
+5.4%
N/A-35.1%$35.36M$422.34M-0.781,697

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This page (NASDAQ:PLL) was last updated on 11/21/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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