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Lithium Americas (Argentina) (LAAC) Competitors

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$1.99 -0.03 (-1.49%)
As of 04/23/2025

LAAC vs. ERO, LEU, TMC, SGML, NEXA, MTAL, LAC, LAR, ASM, and DC

Should you be buying Lithium Americas (Argentina) stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lithium Americas (Argentina) include Ero Copper (ERO), Centrus Energy (LEU), TMC the metals (TMC), Sigma Lithium (SGML), Nexa Resources (NEXA), Metals Acquisition (MTAL), Lithium Americas (LAC), Lithium Argentina (LAR), Avino Silver & Gold Mines (ASM), and Dakota Gold (DC). These companies are all part of the "non-metallic and industrial metal mining" industry.

Lithium Americas (Argentina) vs.

Lithium Americas (Argentina) (NYSE:LAAC) and Ero Copper (NYSE:ERO) 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 media sentiment, valuation, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings, dividends, risk, institutional ownership and community ranking.

49.2% of Lithium Americas (Argentina) shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 71.3% of Ero Copper shares are held by institutional investors. 19.8% of Lithium Americas (Argentina) shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Ero Copper has a net margin of 3.67% compared to Lithium Americas (Argentina)'s net margin of 0.00%. Ero Copper's return on equity of 11.30% beat Lithium Americas (Argentina)'s return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Lithium Americas (Argentina)N/A -1.37% -1.08%
Ero Copper 3.67%11.30%5.62%

In the previous week, Ero Copper had 24 more articles in the media than Lithium Americas (Argentina). MarketBeat recorded 26 mentions for Ero Copper and 2 mentions for Lithium Americas (Argentina). Lithium Americas (Argentina)'s average media sentiment score of 1.10 beat Ero Copper's score of 0.74 indicating that Lithium Americas (Argentina) is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Lithium Americas (Argentina)
1 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Ero Copper
8 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
4 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
1 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Ero Copper received 5 more outperform votes than Lithium Americas (Argentina) when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 50.00% of users gave Lithium Americas (Argentina) an outperform vote while only 35.71% of users gave Ero Copper an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Lithium Americas (Argentina)Outperform Votes
10
50.00%
Underperform Votes
10
50.00%
Ero CopperOutperform Votes
15
35.71%
Underperform Votes
27
64.29%

Lithium Americas (Argentina) has a beta of 1.35, indicating that its stock price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ero Copper has a beta of 1.1, indicating that its stock price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Lithium Americas (Argentina) presently has a consensus price target of $7.42, indicating a potential upside of 272.70%. Ero Copper has a consensus price target of $26.33, indicating a potential upside of 110.99%. Given Lithium Americas (Argentina)'s higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Lithium Americas (Argentina) is more favorable than Ero Copper.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Lithium Americas (Argentina)
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.83
Ero Copper
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
7 Buy rating(s)
2 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.10

Lithium Americas (Argentina) has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Ero Copper. Ero Copper is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Lithium Americas (Argentina), indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Lithium Americas (Argentina)N/AN/A$1.29B$7.790.26
Ero Copper$470.26M2.75$92.80M-$0.67-18.63

Summary

Ero Copper beats Lithium Americas (Argentina) on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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LAAC vs. The Competition

MetricLithium Americas (Argentina)Metal mining IndustryMaterials SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$322.25M$6.71B$3.01B$18.80B
Dividend YieldN/A3.83%5.21%4.16%
P/E Ratio0.2611.3774.5032.05
Price / SalesN/A97.5022,957,190,387,262,900.0028.14
Price / Cash14.9521.4824.3317.53
Price / Book0.394.555.244.41
Net Income$1.29B$597.31M$154.82M$1.02B
7 Day Performance-3.40%1.51%1.10%2.56%
1 Month Performance-14.96%-1.44%2.43%-6.47%
1 Year Performance-59.39%9.93%17.09%2.85%

Lithium Americas (Argentina) Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
LAAC
Lithium Americas (Argentina)
3.1258 of 5 stars
$1.99
-1.5%
$7.42
+272.7%
-60.2%$322.25MN/A0.26850Positive News
ERO
Ero Copper
4.3311 of 5 stars
$10.88
+3.7%
$26.33
+142.0%
-38.1%$1.13B$470.26M64.002,460High Trading Volume
LEU
Centrus Energy
2.8355 of 5 stars
$64.87
+0.8%
$143.40
+121.1%
+60.2%$1.09B$442M14.71280News Coverage
Positive News
Gap Up
TMC
TMC the metals
1.0957 of 5 stars
$2.83
+45.1%
$3.88
+36.9%
+53.3%$984.59MN/A-9.1330High Trading Volume
SGML
Sigma Lithium
2.3417 of 5 stars
$8.39
+3.3%
$18.00
+114.5%
-43.7%$933.63M$208.75M-17.48250Upcoming Earnings
News Coverage
Gap Up
NEXA
Nexa Resources
0.6148 of 5 stars
$6.11
+2.0%
$6.58
+7.6%
-16.5%$809.20M$2.77B-3.975,771Upcoming Earnings
News Coverage
MTAL
Metals Acquisition
2.7153 of 5 stars
$8.50
+1.6%
$14.75
+73.5%
-30.9%$700.72M$340.74M0.002,021Upcoming Earnings
LAC
Lithium Americas
1.9077 of 5 stars
$2.72
+0.7%
$4.84
+77.8%
-41.0%$600.26MN/A-22.67749Gap Up
LAR
Lithium Argentina
2.4817 of 5 stars
$2.13
+2.2%
$3.50
+64.7%
N/A$344.04MN/A0.27850
ASM
Avino Silver & Gold Mines
0.9389 of 5 stars
$2.02
+1.5%
$2.07
+2.3%
+189.1%$286.15M$66.18M101.0534News Coverage
High Trading Volume
DC
Dakota Gold
1.2403 of 5 stars
$2.85
+1.1%
$7.50
+163.2%
+16.0%$283.51MN/A-6.9520News Coverage

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This page (NYSE:LAAC) was last updated on 4/24/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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