LAAC vs. ERO, LEU, SGML, UUUU, MTAL, LAC, EU, CRML, TMC, and NMG
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), Sigma Lithium (SGML), Energy Fuels (UUUU), Metals Acquisition (MTAL), Lithium Americas (LAC), enCore Energy (EU), Critical Metals (CRML), TMC the metals (TMC), and Nouveau Monde Graphite (NMG). 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 superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, dividends, institutional ownership, community ranking and earnings.
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.
49.2% of Lithium Americas (Argentina) shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 71.3% of Ero Copper shares are owned by institutional investors. 19.8% of Lithium Americas (Argentina) shares are owned 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) has a beta of 1.35, indicating that its share price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ero Copper has a beta of 1.15, indicating that its share price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Lithium Americas (Argentina) currently has a consensus target price of $7.19, suggesting a potential upside of 163.28%. Ero Copper has a consensus target price of $26.33, suggesting a potential upside of 96.93%. Given Lithium Americas (Argentina)'s higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Lithium Americas (Argentina) is more favorable than Ero Copper.
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.
In the previous week, Ero Copper had 2 more articles in the media than Lithium Americas (Argentina). MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Ero Copper and 3 mentions for Lithium Americas (Argentina). Ero Copper's average media sentiment score of 0.38 beat Lithium Americas (Argentina)'s score of 0.30 indicating that Ero Copper is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Ero Copper received 1 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 29.73% of users gave Ero Copper an outperform vote.
Summary
Ero Copper beats Lithium Americas (Argentina) on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:LAAC) was last updated on 2/1/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
