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Basic Materials

Lithium Americas Corp.(LAC)

Live Price

Offline

$3.79

-1.56% today

1Y Change

+41.42%

Window

Jun 30, 2025 โ†’ Jun 26, 2026

Market Cap
$1.27B
Revenue Growth
0.0%
EPS Growth
-142.9%
Dividend Yield
0.0%

Coverage: 249 bars ยท Jun 30, 2025 โ†’ Jun 26, 2026

Research Briefing

A compact read on the setup, peer context, quarterly changes, and recent earnings reaction.

Decision context

Research Snapshot

Lithium Americas Corp. (LAC) is a Basic Materials stock with a market cap of $1.27B and listed on NYSE. The stock last traded around $3.79 and up 41.4% across the available one-year price window (Jun 30, 2025 โ†’ Jun 26, 2026). Baseline metrics include revenue growth of 0.0%, EPS growth of -142.9%, a dividend yield of 0.0%. What stands out right now is revenue 0.0%, EPS -142.9%, free cash flow -340.9% with operating margin 0.0% and ROIC -2.2%. Overall, the current profile looks closer to a turnaround or cyclical reset than a generic broad-market placeholder. Stock Foundry combines LAC price history, valuation, growth, dividend context, earnings, analyst forecasts, news, related Basic Materials peers on this page.

Benchmark Edge

LAC vs SPY, QQQ, and Sector ETFs

Normalized return, excess return, max drawdown, and calendar-year wins against the benchmarks investors actually use.

Shared 1Y chart + MAX history table

Relative Read

Mixed setup vs SPY

LAC is 23.43 pts ahead over the shared 1Y window.

LAC had 53.95 pts deeper max drawdown than SPY.

LAC beat SPY in 1 of 2 calendar years shown and trailed in 1.

LAC

+41.42%

Normalized return

SPY

+17.99%

S&P 500

Excess Return

+23.43 pts

Relative to SPY

LAC Max Drawdown

-63.08%

Trailing 1Y

SPY Max Drawdown

-9.13%

Trailing 1Y

LACSPY

Calendar-Year Returns

Uses the longest available daily history for LAC and SPY.

YearLACSPYExcessLeader
2026-20.55%+6.71%-27.25 ptsSPY
2025+64.55%+11.19%+53.36 ptsLAC

Financial profile

Lithium Americas Corp. (LAC)

Profitability, balance sheet stamina, and cash efficiency drawn from the latest filings.

FY Revenue

$0.0

FY Net Income

-$47.0M

+30.6% YoY

Free Cash Flow

-$44.9M

+22.1% YoY

Revenue Growth

+0.0%

EPS Growth

-142.9%

Gross Margin

0.0%

Net Margin

0.0%

Income statement

USD

Annual
Metric20252024202320222021
Revenue00000
Gross Profit-1M-944K000
Operating Income-54M-27M-29M-61M-44M
EBITDA-53M-40M-29M-60M-44M
Net Income-124M-40M-5M-68M-47M
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Balance sheet

USD

Point-in-time
Metric20252024202320222021
Cash & Equivalents568M594M196M636K933K
Total Assets2.6B1.0B437M28M11M
Total Liabilities992M100M52M62M53M
Shareholder Equity1.1B635M385M-34M-42M
Total Debt166M23M4M45M42M
Net Debt-403M-571M-192M45M41M

Cash flow positioning

Latest Full Year

Operating Cash Flow

43M

+17.4% YoY

Capital Expenditures

2M

+65.6% YoY

Free Cash Flow

45M

+22.1% YoY

Key ratios

  • Gross Margin

    0.0%

  • Operating Margin

    0.0%

  • Net Margin

    0.0%

  • ROE

    -12.0%

  • Debt / Equity

    0.50x

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