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What are the current avenues for us regular people to invest in companies doing battery R&D? I found the lgclf stock, but that doesn’t seem right from my low kn

by ianai 7y ago

What are the current avenues for us regular people to invest in companies doing battery R&D? I found the lgclf stock, but that doesn’t seem right from my low knowledge level.

jersey 7y ago
Invest in Tesla? They have made several acquisitions related to battery R&D and are likely moving to producing their own batteries.
- ianai 7y ago
  That’s one way, for sure. But that stock is already well known.
  - pmorici 7y ago
    I'm not sure if it is still true but up until the past month or two Tesla was the most shorted stock in the market and you couldn't watch CNBC for 30 minutes w/o a talking head positing that it would go bankrupt before the year was out. Fast forward to today and every automaker is falling all over themselves to copy the Tesla model and Tesla has positive cash flow and $5.3 billion cash on hand.
    - jfengel 7y ago
      Not the most shorted, but up there. It was #50 on a list back in August (https://seekingalpha.com/article/4285222-heavily-shorted-stocks-august-2019 https://seekingalpha.com/article/4285222-heavily-shorted-sto...). Today it has dropped off that list: its short ratio is still 20% but the bottom of that list is now at 24%. That 20% figure has been relatively constant. Top of the list: GameStop, followed by Bed Bath & Beyond.
      - OnlineGladiator 7y ago
        I love how almost every company on that list has a market cap around $1 billion, and then there is Tesla with a market cap over $40 billion.
    - ianai 7y ago
      Also has almost twice the cap of Ford.
      - bryanlarsen 7y ago
        Enterprise Value (market cap + debt) is the true measure of what the market thinks a company is worth. By that measure, Ford is 3X the size of Tesla.
WorldMaker 7y ago
One place to start might be the companies mentioned on the Lithium Ion Battery page on Wikipedia. A lot of the same major players show up again and again in these sorts of factory deals and discussions, such as: LG Chem (mentioned here; also a major partner with some of the German automakers on the European continent), Panasonic (partner in Tesla's Gigafactory), Sony (a traditional player in battery chem and essentially the originator of commercialized Lithium Ion tech in the first place), Toshiba (another traditional player).

by ianai 7y ago

What are the current avenues for us regular people to invest in companies doing battery R&D? I found the lgclf stock, but that doesn’t seem right from my low knowledge level.

jersey 7y ago

Invest in Tesla? They have made several acquisitions related to battery R&D and are likely moving to producing their own batteries.

ianai 7y ago
That’s one way, for sure. But that stock is already well known.
- pmorici 7y ago
  I'm not sure if it is still true but up until the past month or two Tesla was the most shorted stock in the market and you couldn't watch CNBC for 30 minutes w/o a talking head positing that it would go bankrupt before the year was out. Fast forward to today and every automaker is falling all over themselves to copy the Tesla model and Tesla has positive cash flow and $5.3 billion cash on hand.
  - jfengel 7y ago
    Not the most shorted, but up there. It was #50 on a list back in August (https://seekingalpha.com/article/4285222-heavily-shorted-stocks-august-2019 https://seekingalpha.com/article/4285222-heavily-shorted-sto...). Today it has dropped off that list: its short ratio is still 20% but the bottom of that list is now at 24%. That 20% figure has been relatively constant. Top of the list: GameStop, followed by Bed Bath & Beyond.
    - OnlineGladiator 7y ago
      I love how almost every company on that list has a market cap around $1 billion, and then there is Tesla with a market cap over $40 billion.
  - ianai 7y ago
    Also has almost twice the cap of Ford.
    - bryanlarsen 7y ago
      Enterprise Value (market cap + debt) is the true measure of what the market thinks a company is worth. By that measure, Ford is 3X the size of Tesla.

WorldMaker 7y ago

One place to start might be the companies mentioned on the Lithium Ion Battery page on Wikipedia. A lot of the same major players show up again and again in these sorts of factory deals and discussions, such as: LG Chem (mentioned here; also a major partner with some of the German automakers on the European continent), Panasonic (partner in Tesla's Gigafactory), Sony (a traditional player in battery chem and essentially the originator of commercialized Lithium Ion tech in the first place), Toshiba (another traditional player).