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Arcadium Lithium (ALTM) Competitors

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$5.19 0.00 (0.00%)
(As of 11/20/2024 ET)

ALTM vs. AXTA, CSWI, ESI, ICL, MEOH, CC, PCT, PRM, TROX, and NGVT

Should you be buying Arcadium Lithium stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Arcadium Lithium include Axalta Coating Systems (AXTA), CSW Industrials (CSWI), Element Solutions (ESI), ICL Group (ICL), Methanex (MEOH), Chemours (CC), PureCycle Technologies (PCT), Perimeter Solutions (PRM), Tronox (TROX), and Ingevity (NGVT). These companies are all part of the "chemicals" industry.

Arcadium Lithium vs.

Arcadium Lithium (NYSE:ALTM) and Axalta Coating Systems (NYSE:AXTA) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, community ranking, valuation, media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership and dividends.

Arcadium Lithium currently has a consensus target price of $11.00, indicating a potential upside of 111.95%. Axalta Coating Systems has a consensus target price of $42.45, indicating a potential upside of 9.14%. Given Arcadium Lithium's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Arcadium Lithium is more favorable than Axalta Coating Systems.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Arcadium Lithium
0 Sell rating(s)
9 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00
Axalta Coating Systems
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
8 Buy rating(s)
2 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

Axalta Coating Systems has a net margin of 6.22% compared to Arcadium Lithium's net margin of 0.00%. Axalta Coating Systems' return on equity of 24.92% beat Arcadium Lithium's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Arcadium LithiumN/A N/A N/A
Axalta Coating Systems 6.22%24.92%6.25%

Arcadium Lithium has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Axalta Coating Systems. Arcadium Lithium is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Axalta Coating Systems, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Arcadium Lithium$1.21B4.62$290.42M$0.2719.22
Axalta Coating Systems$5.18B1.64$267.40M$1.4826.28

Arcadium Lithium has a beta of 1.48, indicating that its share price is 48% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Axalta Coating Systems has a beta of 1.43, indicating that its share price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Axalta Coating Systems received 520 more outperform votes than Arcadium Lithium when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.58% of users gave Axalta Coating Systems an outperform vote while only 16.67% of users gave Arcadium Lithium an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Arcadium LithiumOutperform Votes
2
16.67%
Underperform Votes
10
83.33%
Axalta Coating SystemsOutperform Votes
522
63.58%
Underperform Votes
299
36.42%

27.0% of Arcadium Lithium shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.3% of Axalta Coating Systems shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.4% of Arcadium Lithium shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Axalta Coating Systems shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

In the previous week, Axalta Coating Systems had 11 more articles in the media than Arcadium Lithium. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Axalta Coating Systems and 4 mentions for Arcadium Lithium. Axalta Coating Systems' average media sentiment score of 0.91 beat Arcadium Lithium's score of -0.29 indicating that Axalta Coating Systems is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Arcadium Lithium
0 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
2 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
Axalta Coating Systems
7 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
5 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Summary

Axalta Coating Systems beats Arcadium Lithium on 15 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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ALTM vs. The Competition

MetricArcadium LithiumSpecialty Chemicals IndustryMaterials SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$5.58B$9.00B$2.85B$19.90B
Dividend YieldN/A4.06%5.23%3.54%
P/E Ratio19.22275.77118.3442.67
Price / Sales4.62512.51576,911.9218.14
Price / CashN/A18.0023.4017.85
Price / BookN/A9.173.595.60
Net Income$290.42M$137.07M$149.88M$985.93M
7 Day Performance-1.05%-0.88%0.46%-0.19%
1 Month Performance-6.15%-7.51%-5.55%0.15%
1 Year PerformanceN/A-10.06%27.51%23.70%

Arcadium Lithium Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
ALTM
Arcadium Lithium
2.9315 of 5 stars
$5.19
flat
$11.00
+111.9%
N/A$5.58B$1.21B19.221,470
AXTA
Axalta Coating Systems
4.4866 of 5 stars
$38.90
+0.2%
$42.45
+9.1%
+25.5%$8.48B$5.18B26.2812,000
CSWI
CSW Industrials
4.3887 of 5 stars
$412.03
-1.1%
N/A+143.7%$7.00B$792.84M55.982,600
ESI
Element Solutions
4.3159 of 5 stars
$27.71
flat
$31.00
+11.9%
+34.5%$6.71B$2.33B24.965,300Dividend Announcement
Positive News
ICL
ICL Group
1.9496 of 5 stars
$4.44
+1.1%
$4.00
-9.8%
-15.1%$5.75B$7.54B14.3113,350News Coverage
MEOH
Methanex
4.806 of 5 stars
$44.42
-0.1%
$55.88
+25.8%
-0.4%$3.00B$3.72B20.761,451Dividend Announcement
Analyst Forecast
CC
Chemours
4.71 of 5 stars
$19.25
+2.1%
$24.88
+29.2%
-28.8%$2.88B$6.03B38.506,200
PCT
PureCycle Technologies
1.3268 of 5 stars
$11.99
+2.7%
$10.60
-11.6%
+184.8%$2.02BN/A0.00146Analyst Forecast
Gap Up
PRM
Perimeter Solutions
1.1559 of 5 stars
$13.42
+1.1%
$14.50
+8.0%
+226.5%$1.94B$322.11M0.00240
TROX
Tronox
4.268 of 5 stars
$11.68
+0.9%
$18.00
+54.1%
-8.1%$1.83B$2.85B0.006,500Positive News
NGVT
Ingevity
2.5698 of 5 stars
$46.22
+0.5%
$52.17
+12.9%
+15.0%$1.67B$1.69B0.001,700Positive News

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