Broker Target Valuation +666%24 May 2023 16:26
CLEANTECH LITHIUM (AIM:CTL)
Price target: $295
Upside: 666%
No#1 on Canaccord’s ‘Lithium Stocks with Most Upside’ list with a price target of $295.
CTL has as three lithium projects – Laguna Verde, Francisco Basin and Llamara – in Chile’s portion of the lithium triangle.
It currently has over 2 million tonnes of LCE JORC compliant resources which are being upgraded with three further drilling campaigns underway.
Meanwhile, its direct lithium extraction (DLE) work has produced 1kg battery grade lithium carbonate, with a larger pilot plant due for commissioning Q3 this year.
CTL is well down on February highs of GBP87, maybe thanks to Chile’s recently announced National Lithium Strategy whereby the government ostensibly plans to assume control of producing lithium assets.
CTL says it will be okay, though.
“The focus of ‘majority state control’ is for assets considered to be of strategic importance to the country and therefore it is understood to relate primarily to the Atacama and Maricunga salars, due to their lithium reserves, size and very high levels of lithium concentration,” it reported April 24.
“By comparison, CTL’s assets are considerably smaller when compared to Salar de Atacama which has approximately 37% of the world’s lithium reserves.
“CTL´s assets have lower levels of lithium concentration and, while highly economic for a company such as CTL, they are not of the scale that could be considered assets of national strategic importance.”