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Lepidico (ASX: LPD)

Last close As at 02/07/2024

AUD0.00

— 0.00 (−33.33%)

Market capitalisation

AUD18m

Via its Karibib project in Namibia and unique IP, Lepidico is a vertically integrated lithium development business that has produced both lithium carbonate and lithium hydroxide from non-traditional hard rock lithium-bearing minerals using its registered L-Max and LOH-Max processes.

Prior to its recent rights/entitlements offer, we conservatively valued Lepidico at 5.39c/share (based on a discounted dividend model), plus a further 0.68–1.66c/share for a significantly risk-adjusted, full-scale, 20,000tpa lithium carbonate equivalent Phase 2 plant. However, if Benchmark Mineral Intelligence’s lithium hydroxide price forecasts were used instead of our own, this valuation almost doubled to 10.17c/share.

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Lord Ashbourne

Lord Ashbourne

Director of Content, Mining

Key Management

  • Joe Walsh

    CEO

  • Shontel Norgate

    CFO

Balance Sheet

Forecast net debt (A$m)

34.4

Forecast gearing ratio (%)

42

Share Price Performance

Price Performance
% 1M 3M 12M
Actual (42.9) (61.7) (80.9)
Relative (43.0) (61.7) (82.7)
52 week high/low A$0.0/A$0.0

Financials

Lepidico’s patented technologies produce lithium hydroxide (plus by-products) in an environmentally friendly way, sourced from less contested minerals such as lepidolite. On 30 October 2023, it released updated economics in relation to its 2020 DFS for an integrated mine and lithium hydroxide chemical plant, which indicated an NPV (8%) of US$457m or c A$697m (then A$0.094 per share). Based on previous research, this implied a pre-funding valuation for the company of 2.9c/share.

Y/E Jun Revenue (A$m) EBITDA (A$m) PBT (A$m) EPS (fd) (c) P/E (x) P/CF (x)
2022A 0.0 (4.8) (7.9) 0.0 N/A N/A
2023A 6.4 (1.2) (3.0) 0.0 N/A N/A
2024E 0.0 (3.1) (3.7) 0.0 N/A N/A
2025E 0.0 (3.1) (6.9) 0.0 N/A N/A

Research

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Lepidico — Coming in sight of the Rubicon

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Lepidico — Big swings and small roundabouts

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Lepidico — Fine tuning the mine and chemical plant

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Lepidico — Convertible bond acquired with DLI fully retired
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