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Updated: Aug 17, 2026
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Lithium Americas

NYSE:LAC·Stock Analysis Report
Day Range
$3.18 - $3.31
Market Cap
1.14B
P/E Ratio
0.0000
Avg Value
$6.63
Year Range
$2.74 - $10.51
$3.21-$0.04 (-1.23%)
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General Information
Lithium Americas Corp is a Canadian-based resource and materials company focused on developing, building and operating lithium deposits and chemical processing facilities.

The company also holds investments in Green Technology Metals Limited (GT1) and Ascend Elements, Inc. (Ascend Elements), and exploration properties in the U.S. and Canada. The company's flagship asset is Thacker Pass, a sedimentary-based lithium deposit located in the McDermitt Caldera in Humboldt County, in northern Nevada (Thacker Pass or the Project). The company operates in only one operating segment and one geographical segment.

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Lithium Americas (LAC) Stock Graph
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How We Grade Lithium Americas (LAC)

We grade stocks based on past performance, their future growth potential, intrinsic value, dividend history, and overall financial health.

The chart below shows how we grade Lithium Americas (LAC) across the board compared to its closest peers.

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Benzinga Edge Rankings

Benzinga Edge stock rankings give you four critical scores to help you identify the strongest and weakest stocks to buy and sell.

Momentum measures a stock's relative strength based on its price movement patterns and volatility over multiple timeframes, ranked as a percentile against other stocks.

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Peer Ratings

See how Lithium Americas compares to its peers in these key performance metrics from Benzinga Rankings.

Top Peers
Value
Quality
Growth
Momentum
Short
Medium
Long
LARLithium Argentina
N/A
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80.47
CMPCompass Minerals Intl
66.31
N/A
N/A
35.38
VMETVersamet Royalties
20.98
N/A
N/A
N/A
ALOYREalloys
N/A
N/A
N/A
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Short: price trend over the last couple of months
Medium: price trend over the last couple of quarters
Long: price trend over the past year
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Past Performance
How has Lithium Americas (LAC) performed over the past 5 years?

The two main factors that we consider when analyzing past performance is overall return and volatility

Using these two metrics, we can determine if this stock gave its investors enough return for the risk that they took on by owning it. This is measured by the sharpe ratio, which has been used as a primary measure of risk/reward trade-off for almost 60 years.

This ratio can be interpreted as the amount of return an investor has received for the amount of risk that they took on by owning the stock over that timeframe.

Lithium Americas (LAC) sharpe ratio over the past 5 years is -0.3931 which is considered to be below average compared to the peer average of 0.4917