MTAL vs. CRML, LAAC, TMC, NEXA, LAC, GSM, DC, NGD, ARMN, and LEU
Should you be buying Metals Acquisition stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Metals Acquisition include Critical Metals (CRML), Lithium Americas (Argentina) (LAAC), TMC the metals (TMC), Nexa Resources (NEXA), Lithium Americas (LAC), Ferroglobe (GSM), Dakota Gold (DC), New Gold (NGD), Aris Mining (ARMN), and Centrus Energy (LEU). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Metals Acquisition (NYSE:MTAL) and Critical Metals (NASDAQ:CRML) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, community ranking, earnings, risk, valuation and profitability.
Metals Acquisition has a beta of 0.02, suggesting that its share price is 98% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Critical Metals has a beta of 0.1, suggesting that its share price is 90% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Metals Acquisition and Metals Acquisition both had 3 articles in the media. Critical Metals' average media sentiment score of -0.16 beat Metals Acquisition's score of -0.21 indicating that Critical Metals is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
87.5% of Metals Acquisition shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.4% of Critical Metals shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.8% of Metals Acquisition shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 65.7% of Critical Metals shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Metals Acquisition currently has a consensus target price of $13.92, suggesting a potential upside of 0.92%. Given Metals Acquisition's higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Metals Acquisition is more favorable than Critical Metals.
Metals Acquisition received 6 more outperform votes than Critical Metals when rated by MarketBeat users.
Critical Metals has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Metals Acquisition.
Summary
Metals Acquisition beats Critical Metals on 5 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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