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Lithium Americas (LAC) Competitors

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$3.14 -0.10 (-3.09%)
(As of 12/17/2024 ET)

LAC vs. AESI, NGD, ERO, SGML, LEU, UUUU, MTAL, EU, CRML, and LAAC

Should you be buying Lithium Americas stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lithium Americas include Atlas Energy Solutions (AESI), New Gold (NGD), Ero Copper (ERO), Sigma Lithium (SGML), Centrus Energy (LEU), Energy Fuels (UUUU), Metals Acquisition (MTAL), enCore Energy (EU), Critical Metals (CRML), and Lithium Americas (Argentina) (LAAC). These companies are all part of the "non-metallic and industrial metal mining" industry.

Lithium Americas vs.

Atlas Energy Solutions (NYSE:AESI) and Lithium Americas (NYSE:LAC) are both oils/energy companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, valuation, institutional ownership, community ranking, earnings, profitability, dividends, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.

34.6% of Atlas Energy Solutions shares are owned by institutional investors. 24.3% of Atlas Energy Solutions shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 19.8% of Lithium Americas shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Atlas Energy Solutions currently has a consensus target price of $24.67, indicating a potential upside of 9.14%. Lithium Americas has a consensus target price of $5.63, indicating a potential upside of 78.01%. Given Lithium Americas' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Lithium Americas is more favorable than Atlas Energy Solutions.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Atlas Energy Solutions
0 Sell rating(s)
4 Hold rating(s)
6 Buy rating(s)
2 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.83
Lithium Americas
0 Sell rating(s)
6 Hold rating(s)
4 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.40

Lithium Americas received 136 more outperform votes than Atlas Energy Solutions when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 81.08% of users gave Atlas Energy Solutions an outperform vote while only 59.71% of users gave Lithium Americas an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Atlas Energy SolutionsOutperform Votes
30
81.08%
Underperform Votes
7
18.92%
Lithium AmericasOutperform Votes
166
59.71%
Underperform Votes
112
40.29%

Atlas Energy Solutions has a net margin of 8.78% compared to Lithium Americas' net margin of 0.00%. Atlas Energy Solutions' return on equity of 11.01% beat Lithium Americas' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Atlas Energy Solutions8.78% 11.01% 6.22%
Lithium Americas N/A -5.59%-5.29%

In the previous week, Atlas Energy Solutions had 6 more articles in the media than Lithium Americas. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Atlas Energy Solutions and 2 mentions for Lithium Americas. Atlas Energy Solutions' average media sentiment score of 1.03 beat Lithium Americas' score of 0.58 indicating that Atlas Energy Solutions is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Atlas Energy Solutions
3 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Lithium Americas
1 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Atlas Energy Solutions has higher revenue and earnings than Lithium Americas. Lithium Americas is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Atlas Energy Solutions, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Atlas Energy Solutions$925.76M2.69$105.43M$0.7928.61
Lithium AmericasN/AN/A-$3.93M-$0.12-26.33

Summary

Atlas Energy Solutions beats Lithium Americas on 15 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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LAC vs. The Competition

MetricLithium AmericasMetal mining IndustryMaterials SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$697.37M$7.07B$2.76B$19.62B
Dividend YieldN/A4.57%5.24%3.50%
P/E Ratio-26.338.10118.3643.95
Price / SalesN/A62.86773,492.7617.45
Price / CashN/A20.3023.2821.72
Price / Book1.242.813.405.45
Net Income-$3.93M$551.01M$145.94M$986.07M
7 Day Performance-11.73%-6.28%-2.40%-2.06%
1 Month Performance-15.05%-1.87%5.61%1.34%
1 Year Performance-53.05%17.08%21.57%16.47%

Lithium Americas Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
LAC
Lithium Americas
1.9655 of 5 stars
$3.14
-3.1%
$5.63
+79.1%
-51.9%$692.95MN/A-26.17749
AESI
Atlas Energy Solutions
3.307 of 5 stars
$22.94
-0.9%
$24.67
+7.5%
+31.4%$2.53B$925.76M29.32490Insider Trade
Short Interest ↑
News Coverage
Positive News
NGD
New Gold
2.9557 of 5 stars
$2.73
-1.4%
$3.41
+25.0%
N/A$2.16B$861.50M138.501,578News Coverage
Positive News
ERO
Ero Copper
4.0407 of 5 stars
$13.77
+0.6%
$26.33
+91.2%
-16.3%$1.42B$464.13M80.533,374
SGML
Sigma Lithium
2.7582 of 5 stars
$11.57
-3.2%
$24.50
+111.8%
-56.4%$1.29B$134.24M-24.90250Positive News
LEU
Centrus Energy
3.4822 of 5 stars
$73.27
+1.2%
$92.00
+25.6%
+45.2%$1.20B$320.20M15.26280Positive News
UUUU
Energy Fuels
2.2021 of 5 stars
$5.85
-2.0%
$8.50
+45.3%
N/A$1.15B$38.66M-27.14179
MTAL
Metals Acquisition
3.403 of 5 stars
$11.88
-2.6%
$15.50
+30.5%
+9.0%$879.99M$322.58M0.002,021
EU
enCore Energy
3.1432 of 5 stars
$3.22
flat
$6.50
+101.9%
N/A$599.25M$44.97M-11.50N/AShort Interest ↓
Positive News
CRML
Critical Metals
N/A$6.38
+0.5%
N/AN/A$516.74MN/A0.004Gap Up
LAAC
Lithium Americas (Argentina)
3.0919 of 5 stars
$3.08
flat
$7.05
+128.9%
-50.0%$498.74MN/A0.4060

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This page (NYSE:LAC) was last updated on 12/17/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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