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LAC (Lithium Americas) PB Ratio : 1.08 (As of Dec. 15, 2024)


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What is Lithium Americas PB Ratio?

The PB Ratio, or Price-to-Book ratio, or Price/Book, is a financial ratio used to compare a company's market price to its Book Value per Share. As of today (2024-12-15), Lithium Americas's share price is $3.25. Lithium Americas's Book Value per Share for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2024 was $3.02. Hence, Lithium Americas's PB Ratio of today is 1.08.

The historical rank and industry rank for Lithium Americas's PB Ratio or its related term are showing as below:

LAC' s PB Ratio Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0   Med: 0   Max: 4.15
Current: 1.15

During the past 4 years, Lithium Americas's highest PB Ratio was 4.15. The lowest was 0.00. And the median was 0.00.

LAC's PB Ratio is ranked better than
56.27% of 2321 companies
in the Metals & Mining industry
Industry Median: 1.34 vs LAC: 1.15

During the past 12 months, Lithium Americas's average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate was 64.60% per year.

Back to Basics: PB Ratio


Lithium Americas PB Ratio Historical Data

The historical data trend for Lithium Americas's PB Ratio can be seen below:

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

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Lithium Americas PB Ratio Chart

Lithium Americas Annual Data
Trend Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
PB Ratio
- - - 2.54

Lithium Americas Quarterly Data
Dec20 Dec21 Mar22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24 Jun24 Sep24
PB Ratio Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only - 2.54 2.68 0.88 0.89

Competitive Comparison of Lithium Americas's PB Ratio

For the Other Industrial Metals & Mining subindustry, Lithium Americas's PB Ratio, along with its competitors' market caps and PB Ratio data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.


Lithium Americas's PB Ratio Distribution in the Metals & Mining Industry

For the Metals & Mining industry and Basic Materials sector, Lithium Americas's PB Ratio distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Lithium Americas's PB Ratio falls into.



Lithium Americas PB Ratio Calculation

The PB Ratio, or Price-to-Book ratio, or Price/Book, is a financial ratio used to compare a company's market price to its Book Value per Share. It is a ratio widely used to value stocks.

Lithium Americas's PB Ratio for today is calculated as follows:

PB Ratio=Share Price/Book Value per Share (Q: Sep. 2024)
=3.25/3.017
=1.08

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

It can also be calculated from the numbers for the whole company:

A closely related ratio is called Price-to-Tangible-Book. The difference between Price-to-Tangible-Book and PB Ratio is that book value other than intangibles are used in the calculation.


Lithium Americas  (NYSE:LAC) PB Ratio Explanation

Unlike valuation ratios relative to the earning power such as PE Ratio, PE Ratio without NRI, PS Ratio, Price-to-Operating-Cash-Flow , or Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow, the PB Ratio measures the valuation of the stock relative to the underlying asset of the company.

The PB Ratio works the best for the businesses that earn most of their profit from their assets, e.g. banks and insurance companies.


Be Aware

Some businesses have very light assets, such as software companies or insurance agencies. The PB Ratio does not work well for these companies. Some companies even have negative equity, so the PB Ratio cannot be applied to them.


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Lithium Americas Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
900 West Hastings Street, Suite 300, Vancouver, BC, CAN, V6C 1E5
Lithium Americas is a pure-play lithium producer. The firm owns 62% of one resource, Thacker Pass, that is located in northwest Nevada, with automaker General Motors owning the remaining 38%. Thacker Pass recently began construction and is expected to begin production in the mid- to late 2020s. Thacker Pass is one of the largest known lithium resources in the world. The project would be the first clay-based asset to enter production, and we estimate it will be in bottom half of the global cost curve. Management plans to develop Thacker Pass into a fully integrated lithium production site, with downstream refining capabilities on site, and will sell into the lithium chemical market.