LAC vs. HBM, MP, SGML, NGD, GSM, CRML, LAAC, MTAL, TMC, and DC
Should you be buying Lithium Americas stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lithium Americas include Hudbay Minerals (HBM), MP Materials (MP), Sigma Lithium (SGML), New Gold (NGD), Ferroglobe (GSM), Critical Metals (CRML), Lithium Americas (Argentina) (LAAC), Metals Acquisition (MTAL), TMC the metals (TMC), and Dakota Gold (DC). These companies are all part of the "metal mining" industry.
Lithium Americas (NYSE:LAC) and Hudbay Minerals (NYSE:HBM) are both basic materials companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking and dividends.
Hudbay Minerals has a net margin of 4.36% compared to Lithium Americas' net margin of 0.00%. Hudbay Minerals' return on equity of 6.22% beat Lithium Americas' return on equity.
Hudbay Minerals has higher revenue and earnings than Lithium Americas.
Hudbay Minerals received 361 more outperform votes than Lithium Americas when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.59% of users gave Lithium Americas an outperform vote while only 60.23% of users gave Hudbay Minerals an outperform vote.
Lithium Americas presently has a consensus target price of $11.46, indicating a potential upside of 240.94%. Hudbay Minerals has a consensus target price of $10.21, indicating a potential upside of 4.12%. Given Lithium Americas' higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Lithium Americas is more favorable than Hudbay Minerals.
In the previous week, Hudbay Minerals had 4 more articles in the media than Lithium Americas. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for Hudbay Minerals and 12 mentions for Lithium Americas. Hudbay Minerals' average media sentiment score of 1.06 beat Lithium Americas' score of 0.36 indicating that Hudbay Minerals is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
57.8% of Hudbay Minerals shares are owned by institutional investors. 19.8% of Lithium Americas shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Hudbay Minerals shares are owned by 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.
Summary
Hudbay Minerals beats Lithium Americas on 11 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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