Lithium Americas Corp (NewCo) (LAC) saw an uptrend of 1.49% in the recent trading with $6.82 being its most recent. The current price level -44.91% lower than the highest price of $12.38 marked by the stock while trading over the past 52-weeks, whereas it is 79.00% higher than the lowest price of $3.81 the company dropped to over past 52-weeks. The latest news story on LAC appeared in (Oilprice.com) under the title “The Rare Metal Keeping Biden and Xi Awake at Night”.
Squeezing the time span to 30 day period shows us the stock is currently trading -10.85% below one month high and is +36.40% above of the lowest during that time. Looking into the simple moving average, Lithium Americas Corp (NewCo) (LAC)’s stock stands at a SMA-50 of $5.29 while that of 5-day is reading $6.94.
Do analysts rate it as a buy, sell or hold?
Irrespective of recent performance, what’s important is what the future holds. In uncertain economic times, a clear picture is difficult to get. Analysts generally have a good understanding of the market works, which gives them a leg up in making predictions. Analyst ratings are often compiled into a single score from 1 to 5. The score of 1 signifies buy or strong buy, the score of 2 signifies outperform, the score of 3 means hold, and the score of 4 indicates underperform. The simple numeric range of brokerage firm referenced at the scale of 1 to 5 reads a current average recommendation of 1.82 for the stock.
Lithium Americas Corp (NewCo) Earnings – What Happened With LAC
Coming around sales and income figures on LAC Stock Income Statement, public trading companies under normal circumstances post earnings and revenues near to average estimates by the Wall Street analysts, but those could came either above or below estimates and known as surprise factor. Lithium Americas Corp (NewCo) (LAC) last released financial results for the quarter that ended 12/30/2023, posting a surprise factor of 22.20% for net revenue.
LAC – Lithium Americas Corp (NewCo) Stock Earnings Estimates
The perspective of Lithium Americas Corp (NewCo) (NYSE:LAC)’s current quarter earnings identifies that analysts are in consensus over the estimate of -0.09 for stock’s EPS in the current quarter. 2 analysts covering the stock at Wall Street were agreed upon that EPS consensus. Company’s EPS for the last quarter was -0.07.
Investors get the exact data about the key information of institutional ownership in a listed company through its 13F filings at the Stock Exchange Commission (SEC). The total number of common shares currently owned by the public is 161.78 million. LAC does have institutional investors; and they hold 16.01% of the stock.
Lithium Americas Corp (NewCo) – Insider Activity and Holdings
As on Dec 30, 2023, General Motors Holdings LLC was the top most holder in Lithium Americas Corp (NewCo) (NYSE:LAC) with an ownership of 30.0 million shares of the company or 18.51% of the stake worth $204.63 million. The filing also reveals Vanguard Group Inc as the second largest holder in the company with a control over 2.21% of the outstanding shares. Its stake is worth $24.47 million for having 3.59 million shares in hand.
Mirae Asset Global Investments Co., Ltd. also came holding a key position in the company during the recent quarter and it now holds 1.45% of the outstanding shares. With this there are now 249 institutions which have possession in LAC’s shares.
Analyst ratings are often compiled into a single score from 1 to 5. The score of 1 signifies buy or strong buy, the score of 2 signifies outperform, the score of 3 means hold, and the score of 4 indicates underperform. The simple numeric range of brokerage firm referenced at the scale of 1 to 5 reads a current average recommendation of 1.82 for the stock.
The liquidity is a key characteristic of any stock and is the main point of focus of both short-term as well as long term investors before start trading into a stock. In recently reported quarter, Lithium Americas Corp (NewCo) has a debt to equity ratio of 0.16.
