Lithium Americas Corp (NewCo) (NYSE:LAC) price on current trading day, fall -1.45% below its previous day’s close as a downside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $2.59.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the level at last check in today’s session was $2.63, moving within a range at $2.5608 and $2.62. Turning to its 52-week performance, $5.20 and $2.02 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, LAC moved -15.85% over the past month.
Lithium Americas Corp (NewCo)’s market cap currently stands at around $567.37 million, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for on 2025-May-14.
7 analyst(s) have given their forecast ratings for the stock on a scale of 1.00-5.00 for a strong buy to strong sell recommendation. A total of 2 analyst(s) rate the stock as a Hold, 5 recommend LAC as a Buy and 0 give it an Overweight rating. Meanwhile, 0 analyst(s) rate the stock as Underweight and 0 say it is a Sell. As such, the average rating for the stock is Buy which could provide an opportunity for investors keen on increasing their holdings of the company’s stock.
LAC’s current price about -5.31% and -7.33% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 37.07, while 7-day volatility ratio is 3.07% and 3.25% in the 30-day chart. Further, Lithium Americas Corp (NewCo) (LAC) has a beta value of 0.51, and an average true range (ATR) of 0.12. Analysts have given the company’s stock an average 52-week price target of $5, forecast between a low of $5 and high of $5. Looking at the price targets, the low is -93.05% off recent price level in today’s trading while to achieve the yearly target high, it has to move -93.05%. Nonetheless, investors will most likely welcome a -93.05% jump to $5 which is the analysts’ median price.
If we refocus on Lithium Americas Corp (NewCo) (NYSE:LAC), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 4.05 over the past 10 days and 4.20 million over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 218.69 million shares.
The 15.65% of Lithium Americas Corp (NewCo)’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 15.81% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 33.09 million on 2025-05-30, giving us a short ratio of 7.22. The data shows that as of 2025-05-30 short interest in Lithium Americas Corp (NewCo) (LAC) stood at 1522.0 of shares outstanding, with shares short rising to 32.72 million registered in 2025-04-30. Current price change has pushed the stock -12.73% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the LAC stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
