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Metals Acquisition (MTAL) Competitors

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$8.50 +0.13 (+1.55%)
As of 04/14/2025 03:58 PM Eastern

MTAL vs. NGD, NXE, TTAM, AESI, ERO, LEU, SGML, NEXA, TMC, and LAC

Should you be buying Metals Acquisition stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Metals Acquisition include New Gold (NGD), NexGen Energy (NXE), Titan America (TTAM), Atlas Energy Solutions (AESI), Ero Copper (ERO), Centrus Energy (LEU), Sigma Lithium (SGML), Nexa Resources (NEXA), TMC the metals (TMC), and Lithium Americas (LAC). These companies are all part of the "non-metallic and industrial metal mining" industry.

Metals Acquisition vs.

Metals Acquisition (NYSE:MTAL) and New Gold (NYSE:NGD) are both basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation and community ranking.

New Gold has higher revenue and earnings than Metals Acquisition.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Metals Acquisition$340.74M2.06-$144.55MN/AN/A
New Gold$924.50M3.07-$64.50M$0.1327.62

Metals Acquisition currently has a consensus target price of $14.75, indicating a potential upside of 73.53%. New Gold has a consensus target price of $3.85, indicating a potential upside of 7.24%. Given Metals Acquisition's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Metals Acquisition is more favorable than New Gold.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Metals Acquisition
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.50
New Gold
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
6 Buy rating(s)
2 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

87.5% of Metals Acquisition shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 42.8% of New Gold shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.8% of Metals Acquisition shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of New Gold shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Metals Acquisition has a beta of 0.19, meaning that its share price is 81% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, New Gold has a beta of 0.93, meaning that its share price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, New Gold had 11 more articles in the media than Metals Acquisition. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for New Gold and 4 mentions for Metals Acquisition. New Gold's average media sentiment score of 1.17 beat Metals Acquisition's score of 0.47 indicating that New Gold is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Metals Acquisition
1 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
1 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
New Gold
10 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

New Gold received 13 more outperform votes than Metals Acquisition when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 75.00% of users gave Metals Acquisition an outperform vote while only 66.67% of users gave New Gold an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Metals AcquisitionOutperform Votes
9
75.00%
Underperform Votes
3
25.00%
New GoldOutperform Votes
22
66.67%
Underperform Votes
11
33.33%

New Gold has a net margin of 11.10% compared to Metals Acquisition's net margin of 0.00%. New Gold's return on equity of 13.70% beat Metals Acquisition's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Metals AcquisitionN/A N/A N/A
New Gold 11.10%13.70%6.31%

Summary

New Gold beats Metals Acquisition on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

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MTAL vs. The Competition

MetricMetals AcquisitionMetal mining IndustryMaterials SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$700.72M$6.45B$2.96B$18.52B
Dividend YieldN/A3.88%5.24%4.25%
P/E RatioN/A10.9072.3931.06
Price / Sales2.0656.8824,272,056,611,921,400.0026.47
Price / CashN/A21.4824.3217.54
Price / Book1.594.455.234.29
Net Income-$144.55M$605.28M$155.11M$1.02B
7 Day Performance1.93%12.84%7.60%4.23%
1 Month Performance-18.16%0.85%2.10%-6.79%
1 Year Performance-37.08%4.28%14.18%-0.03%

Metals Acquisition Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
MTAL
Metals Acquisition
2.4917 of 5 stars
$8.50
+1.6%
$14.75
+73.5%
-37.1%$700.72M$340.74M0.002,021Short Interest ↑
Gap Down
NGD
New Gold
2.5387 of 5 stars
$2.99
-0.7%
$3.74
+25.2%
N/A$2.37B$924.50M23.001,570Analyst Forecast
Positive News
NXE
NexGen Energy
0.5364 of 5 stars
$4.10
-2.0%
N/A-42.4%$2.33BN/A27.3060Short Interest ↑
Positive News
TTAM
Titan America
N/A$11.61
-4.8%
$17.43
+50.1%
N/A$2.14B$1.63B0.002,726
AESI
Atlas Energy Solutions
4.5415 of 5 stars
$13.85
+0.3%
$23.83
+72.1%
-42.2%$1.69B$1.06B17.53490Positive News
Gap Up
High Trading Volume
ERO
Ero Copper
3.7172 of 5 stars
$10.08
+1.7%
$26.33
+161.2%
-47.2%$1.04B$470.26M59.312,460News Coverage
High Trading Volume
LEU
Centrus Energy
2.4611 of 5 stars
$58.56
+7.6%
$143.40
+144.9%
+49.4%$981.76M$442M13.28280News Coverage
Positive News
Gap Up
High Trading Volume
SGML
Sigma Lithium
2.2784 of 5 stars
$7.82
+2.5%
$18.00
+130.2%
-42.7%$870.20M$208.75M-16.29250Analyst Revision
News Coverage
Gap Down
High Trading Volume
NEXA
Nexa Resources
0.5279 of 5 stars
$6.12
-2.2%
$6.58
+7.5%
-15.4%$827.74M$2.77B-3.975,771High Trading Volume
TMC
TMC the metals
2.7649 of 5 stars
$1.76
-3.8%
$3.88
+120.2%
+56.4%$612.32MN/A-5.6830Options Volume
Positive News
Gap Up
LAC
Lithium Americas
1.9554 of 5 stars
$2.62
+2.1%
$4.84
+84.9%
-61.6%$577.09MN/A-21.79749Gap Up
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