LAC vs. NGD, TTAM, AESI, ERO, SGML, LEU, MTAL, NEXA, TMC, and LAR
Should you be buying Lithium Americas stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lithium Americas include New Gold (NGD), Titan America (TTAM), Atlas Energy Solutions (AESI), Ero Copper (ERO), Sigma Lithium (SGML), Centrus Energy (LEU), Metals Acquisition (MTAL), Nexa Resources (NEXA), TMC the metals (TMC), and Lithium Argentina (LAR). These companies are all part of the "non-metallic and industrial metal mining" industry.
Lithium Americas vs.
New Gold (NYSE:NGD) and Lithium Americas (NYSE:LAC) are both basic materials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, media sentiment, dividends and community ranking.
Lithium Americas has lower revenue, but higher earnings than New Gold. Lithium Americas is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than New Gold, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
New Gold presently has a consensus target price of $3.60, indicating a potential upside of 6.98%. Lithium Americas has a consensus target price of $4.80, indicating a potential upside of 63.54%. Given Lithium Americas' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Lithium Americas is more favorable than New Gold.
New Gold has a beta of 1.35, suggesting that its share price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lithium Americas has a beta of 1.77, suggesting that its share price is 77% more volatile than the S&P 500.
New Gold has a net margin of 11.10% compared to Lithium Americas' net margin of 0.00%. New Gold's return on equity of 13.70% beat Lithium Americas' return on equity.
42.8% of New Gold shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of New Gold shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 19.8% of Lithium Americas shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, New Gold had 9 more articles in the media than Lithium Americas. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for New Gold and 4 mentions for Lithium Americas. New Gold's average media sentiment score of 1.13 beat Lithium Americas' score of 0.58 indicating that New Gold is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Lithium Americas received 148 more outperform votes than New Gold when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.67% of users gave New Gold an outperform vote while only 59.07% of users gave Lithium Americas an outperform vote.
Summary
New Gold beats Lithium Americas on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:LAC) was last updated on 3/25/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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