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Lithium Americas (Argentina) (LAAC) Competitors

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$2.72 -0.03 (-1.09%)
(As of 12/20/2024 05:45 PM ET)

LAAC vs. ERO, SGML, LEU, UUUU, MTAL, LAC, EU, CRML, TMC, and LZM

Should you be buying Lithium Americas (Argentina) stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lithium Americas (Argentina) include Ero Copper (ERO), Sigma Lithium (SGML), Centrus Energy (LEU), Energy Fuels (UUUU), Metals Acquisition (MTAL), Lithium Americas (LAC), enCore Energy (EU), Critical Metals (CRML), TMC the metals (TMC), and Lifezone Metals (LZM). 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 compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, profitability, risk and analyst recommendations.

Lithium Americas (Argentina) has a beta of 1.31, indicating that its stock price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ero Copper has a beta of 1.12, indicating that its stock price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Ero Copper received 1 more outperform votes than Lithium Americas (Argentina) when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 52.63% of users gave Lithium Americas (Argentina) an outperform vote while only 29.73% of users gave Ero Copper an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Lithium Americas (Argentina)Outperform Votes
10
52.63%
Underperform Votes
9
47.37%
Ero CopperOutperform Votes
11
29.73%
Underperform Votes
26
70.27%

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 company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Lithium Americas (Argentina) presently has a consensus target price of $7.05, suggesting a potential upside of 159.19%. Ero Copper has a consensus target price of $26.33, suggesting a potential upside of 98.74%. Given Lithium Americas (Argentina)'s higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly 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)
4 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.63
Ero Copper
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
7 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.13

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%

Lithium Americas (Argentina) has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Ero Copper. Lithium Americas (Argentina) is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ero Copper, 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$7.790.35
Ero Copper$464.13M2.95$92.80M$0.1777.94

In the previous week, Ero Copper had 1 more articles in the media than Lithium Americas (Argentina). MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Ero Copper and 1 mentions for Lithium Americas (Argentina). Lithium Americas (Argentina)'s average media sentiment score of 0.76 beat Ero Copper's score of 0.26 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)
0 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Ero Copper
1 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral

Summary

Ero Copper beats Lithium Americas (Argentina) on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

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LAAC vs. The Competition

MetricLithium Americas (Argentina)Metal mining IndustryMaterials SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$440.45M$6.86B$2.76B$19.18B
Dividend YieldN/A4.14%5.21%3.58%
P/E Ratio0.357.74112.8941.22
Price / SalesN/A60.92767,109.7817.58
Price / Cash16.6420.9223.8821.28
Price / Book0.532.713.365.32
Net Income$1.29B$574.20M$151.64M$989.67M
7 Day Performance-11.69%-5.65%-2.86%-3.45%
1 Month Performance-19.21%-9.56%3.01%-3.73%
1 Year Performance-58.35%4.83%17.28%12.06%

Lithium Americas (Argentina) Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
LAAC
Lithium Americas (Argentina)
2.8892 of 5 stars
$2.72
-1.1%
$7.05
+159.2%
-54.9%$440.45MN/A0.3560
ERO
Ero Copper
3.663 of 5 stars
$13.79
+0.7%
$26.33
+91.0%
-18.5%$1.42B$464.13M80.533,374
SGML
Sigma Lithium
1.7855 of 5 stars
$11.57
-3.2%
$24.50
+111.8%
-65.2%$1.29B$134.24M-24.90250News Coverage
Positive News
LEU
Centrus Energy
3.2166 of 5 stars
$75.20
+3.8%
$92.00
+22.3%
+27.9%$1.23B$320.20M15.26280Positive News
UUUU
Energy Fuels
2.2875 of 5 stars
$5.85
-2.0%
$8.50
+45.3%
N/A$1.15B$38.66M-27.14179Insider Trade
News Coverage
MTAL
Metals Acquisition
3.3333 of 5 stars
$11.91
-2.4%
$15.50
+30.1%
+0.0%$882.21M$322.58M0.002,021
LAC
Lithium Americas
2.5401 of 5 stars
$3.29
+1.2%
$5.63
+71.0%
-52.0%$726.05MN/A-27.25749Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
EU
enCore Energy
3.0723 of 5 stars
$3.20
-0.6%
$6.50
+103.1%
N/A$595.52M$44.97M-11.50N/ANews Coverage
Positive News
Gap Down
CRML
Critical Metals
N/A$6.41
+0.9%
N/AN/A$519.17MN/A0.004Gap Up
TMC
TMC the metals
2.0501 of 5 stars
$0.80
+0.5%
$4.00
+397.6%
-32.1%$260.64MN/A-2.5830
LZM
Lifezone Metals
1.3671 of 5 stars
$7.16
-1.0%
$12.50
+74.6%
-30.5%$256.61M$1.02M0.00150Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
News Coverage

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