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Lithium Americas Corp is an other industrial metals & mining business based in the US. Lithium Americas shares (LAC) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Lithium Americas employs 321 staff and has a market cap (total outstanding shares value) of USD$1.3 billion.
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Latest market close | USD$9.34 |
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52-week range | USD$1.92 - USD$16.97 |
50-day moving average | USD$10.5044 |
200-day moving average | USD$8.5591 |
Wall St. target price | N/A |
PE ratio | 22.4526 |
Dividend yield | N/A (0%) |
Earnings per share (TTM) | USD$0.466 |
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Historical closes compared with the close of $9.34 from 2020-12-18
1 week (2021-01-07) | -50.82% |
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1 month (2020-12-17) | -0.32% |
3 months (2020-10-15) | -26.69% |
6 months (2020-07-15) | 72.64% |
1 year (2020-01-15) | 115.70% |
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2 years (2019-01-15) | 177.15% |
3 years (2018-01-13) | N/A |
5 years (2016-01-15) | 4,101.53% |
Valuing Lithium Americas stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Lithium Americas's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
Lithium Americas's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 22x. In other words, Lithium Americas shares trade at around 22x recent earnings.
That's relatively low compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The low P/E ratio could mean that investors are pessimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're under-valued.
Operating margin TTM | 1794.2% |
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Gross profit TTM | USD$0 |
Return on assets TTM | -6.56% |
Return on equity TTM | -23.27% |
Profit margin | 0% |
Book value | $1.109 |
Market capitalisation | USD$1.3 billion |
TTM: trailing 12 months
There are currently 5.5 million Lithium Americas shares held short by investors – that's known as Lithium Americas's "short interest". This figure is 0.8% down from 5.6 million last month.
There are a few different ways that this level of interest in shorting Lithium Americas shares can be evaluated.
Lithium Americas's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of Lithium Americas shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of Lithium Americas shares traded daily (recently around 4.4 million). Lithium Americas's SIR currently stands at 1.25. In other words for every 100,000 Lithium Americas shares traded daily on the market, roughly 1250 shares are currently held short.
However Lithium Americas's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of Lithium Americas shares, or, against the total number of tradable Lithium Americas shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case Lithium Americas's short interest could be expressed as 0.05% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 Lithium Americas shares in existence, roughly 50 shares are currently held short) or 0% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable Lithium Americas shares, roughly 0 shares are currently held short).
Such a low SIR usually points to an optimistic outlook for the share price, with fewer people currently willing to bet against Lithium Americas.
Find out more about how you can short Lithium Americas stock.
We're not expecting Lithium Americas to pay a dividend over the next 12 months.
Lithium Americas's shares were split on a 1:5 basis on 8 November 2017. So if you had owned 5 shares the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 1 share. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Lithium Americas shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 400% higher share price could have impacted the market appetite for Lithium Americas shares which in turn could have impacted Lithium Americas's share price.
Over the last 12 months, Lithium Americas's shares have ranged in value from as little as $1.92 up to $16.97. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".
Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NYSE average) beta is 1, while Lithium Americas's is 1.6875. This would suggest that Lithium Americas's shares are more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).
Lithium Americas Corp. operates as a resource company in the United States. The company explores for lithium deposits. It primarily holds interests in the Cauchari-Olaroz Project located in Jujuy province of Argentina; and owns a 100% interest in the Thacker Pass lithium project located in Humboldt County in northern Nevada. The company was formerly known as Western Lithium USA Corporation and changed its name to Lithium Americas Corp. in March 2016. Lithium Americas Corp. was incorporated in 2007 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.
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