Lithium Argentina AG (NYSE:LAR) price on Friday, May 02, rose 1.48% above its previous day’s close as an upside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $2.06.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the close in the last trading session was $2.03, moving within a range at $2.035 and $2.11. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 1.866. Turning to its 52-week performance, $5.60 and $1.73 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, LAR moved -3.74% over the past month.
Lithium Argentina AG’s market cap currently stands at around $333.58 million, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for on 2025-Mar-16.
Turning to the stock’s technical picture we see that short term indicators suggest on average that LAR is a 50% Sell. On the other hand, the stock is on average a 100% Sell as suggested by medium term indicators while long term indicators are putting the stock in 100% Sell category.
LAR’s current price about 1.65% and -4.87% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 47.18, while 7-day volatility ratio is 4.04% and 6.34% in the 30-day chart. Further, Lithium Argentina AG (LAR) has a beta value of 1.20, and an average true range (ATR) of 0.11.
If we refocus on Lithium Argentina AG (NYSE:LAR), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 0.58 over the past 10 days and 900.54K over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 161.93 million shares.
The 17.72% of Lithium Argentina AG’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 19.85% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 8.92 million on 2025-04-15, giving us a short ratio of 8.96. The data shows that as of 2025-04-15 short interest in Lithium Argentina AG (LAR) stood at 578.00002 of shares outstanding, with shares short falling to 9.85 million registered in 2025-03-14. Current price change has pushed the stock -21.37% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the LAR stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
