Arcadium Lithium PLC (NYSE:ALTM) does about 11.65M shares in volume on a normal day but saw 6767714 shares change hands in Monday trading. The company now has a market cap of 5.11B USD. Its current market price is $4.76, marking an increase of 1.71% compared to the previous close of $4.68. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $7.27 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $3.67.
Arcadium Lithium PLC (ALTM) has a 20-day trading average at $4.18 and the current price is -34.53% off the 52-week high compared with 29.70% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $4.47 and its 200-day simple moving average is $12.49. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 5.79%, which increases to 6.01% over 1 month. It is also key to look at other market indicators of price movement for the stock, where we see that the relative strength index (RSI) is at 61.52 to suggest the stock is neutral.
The consensus objective for the share price is $7.18, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 33.7% over the period.
The company shares received a number of brokerage firm price updates over the past month, with the latest being on May 03, 2024 when Argus initiated the stock to “Buy” and issued a price target of $6.25. Raymond James upgraded the stock to “Strong Buy” from Outperform on April 03, 2024 at a price target of $9.
Arcadium Lithium PLC (ALTM) stock is up 5.31% over the week and 13.60% over the past month. Its price is -30.10% year-to-date.
The stock last released its quarterly earnings report for quarter ended 12/31/2023, with the company’s earnings per share (EPS) of 0.34 above consensus estimates by 0.2. The company’s next earnings report forecasts estimating quarterly EPS at 0.04 and 0.21 for whole year. Expected sales for next quarter are $297.84M, which analysts say will come at $1.3B for the current fiscal year and next year at $1.78B. In addition, estimates put the company’s current quarterly revenue at an average of $284.62M.
To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 33.7 percent from here.
The forward price to earnings ratio is 13.69. Price to book ratio is 0.43.
