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Analysts Recommend Holding Your Position In Li-Cycle Holdings Corp (NYSE: LICY)

Li-Cycle Holdings Corp (NYSE:LICY) price closed higher on Monday, November 20, jumping 18.06% above its previous close.

A look at the daily price movement shows that the last close reads $0.63, with intraday deals fluctuated between $0.61 and $0.788. The company’s 5Y monthly beta was ticking 1.58. Taking into account the 52-week price action we note that the stock hit a 52-week high of $6.58 and 52-week low of $0.50. The stock subtracted -67.40% on its value in the past month.

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Li-Cycle Holdings Corp, which has a market valuation of $131.92 million, is expected to release its quarterly earnings report Jan 28, 2024 – Feb 02, 2024. Analysts tracking LICY have forecast the quarterly EPS to shrink by -0.2 per share this quarter, while the same analysts predict the annual EPS to hit -$0.9 for the year 2023 and up to -$0.66 for 2024.

On average, analysts have forecast the company’s revenue for the quarter will hit $3.02 million, with the likely lows of $1.86 million and highs of $4.44 million. Staying with the analyst view, there is a consensus estimate of $14.61 million for the company’s annual revenue in 2023.

Revisions to the company’s EPS highlights a short term direction of a stock’s price movement, which in the last 7 days came up with 1 upward and no downward reviews. On the technical perspective front, indicators give LICY a short term outlook of 100% Sell on average. Looking at the stock’s medium term indicators we note that it is averaging as a 100% Sell, while an average of long term indicators are currently assigning the stock as 100% Sell.

Here is a look at the average analyst rating for the stock as represented on a scale of 1.00 to 5.00, with the extremes of 1.00 and 5.00 suggesting the stock is strong buy or strong sell respectively. Specifically, 6 analysts have assigned LICY a recommendation rating as follows: 5 rate it as a Hold; 0 advise Buy while 0 analyst(s) assign an Overweight rating. 0 analyst(s) have tagged the Li-Cycle Holdings Corp (LICY) stock as Underweight, with 1 recommending Sell. In general, analysts have rated the stock Hold, a scenario likely to bolster investors out for an opportunity to add to their holdings of the company’s shares.

The overview shows that LICY’s price is at present -43.40% off the SMA20 and -71.70% from the SMA50. The Relative Strength Index (RSI) metric on the 14-day timeframe is pointing at 29.07, with weekly volatility standing at 44.98%. The indicator jumps to 24.50% when calculated based on the past 30 days. Li-Cycle Holdings Corp (NYSE:LICY)’s beta value is holding at 1.09, while the average true range (ATR) indicator is currently reading 0.25. Considering analysts have assigned the stock a price target range of $0.51-$2.00 as the low and high respectively, we find the trailing 12-month average consensus price target to be $1.09. Based on this estimate, we see that current price is roughly 31.08% off the estimated low and -170.27% off the forecast high. Investors will no doubt be excited to see the share price fall to $0.88, which is the median consensus price, and at that level LICY would be -18.92% from current price.

An analysis of the Li-Cycle Holdings Corp (NYSE:LICY) stock in terms of its daily trading volume indicates that the 3-month average is 4.03 million. However, this figure increases on the past 10-day timeline to an average of 11.82 million.

Current records show that the company has 175.96M in outstanding shares. The insiders’ percentage holdings are 31.84% of outstanding shares while the percentage share held by institutions stands at 38.51%. The stats also highlight that short interest as of Oct 30, 2023, stood at 14.15 million shares, which puts the short ratio at the time at 3.4. From this we can glean that short interest is 7.94% of company’s current outstanding shares. Notably, we see that shares short in October rose slightly given the previous month’s figure stood at 12.66 million. But the -84.45% downside, the stock’s price has registered year-to-date as of last trading, will likely reignite investor interest given the prospect of it rallying even higher.