Friday, August 11, 2023
Largo has a long and successful history as one of the world’s preferred vanadium companies through the supply of its VPURE™ and VPURE+™ products, which are sourced from one of the world’s highest-grade vanadium deposits at the Company’s Maracás Menchen Mine in Brazil. Aiming to enhance value creation at Largo, the Company is in the process of implementing a titanium dioxide pigment plant using feedstock sourced from its existing operations in addition to advancing its U.S.-based clean energy division with its VCHARGE vanadium batteries. Largo’s VCHARGE vanadium batteries contain a variety of innovations, enabling an efficient, safe and ESG-aligned long duration solution that is fully recyclable at the end of its 25+ year lifespan. Producing some of the world’s highest quality vanadium, Largo’s strategic business plan is based on two pillars: 1.) leading vanadium supplier with an outlined growth plan and 2.) U.S.-based energy storage business support a low carbon future.
Michael Heim, Senior Vice President, Equity Research Analyst, Energy & Transportation, Noble Capital Markets, Inc.
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Quarterly results were below expectations as a decline in vanadium prices and lower sales led to decreased revenues. The company is working hard to return mining activity to normal levels while at the same time reducing costs. Largo had been making strides toward achieving both goals, even if the financial numbers do not demonstrate the improvement due to the decline in vanadium prices. Largo sold less than it produced reversing a trend in the first quarter, as expected.
Vanadium prices declined 19% to $8.46/lb. Largo received a premium to benchmark prices during the quarter that it did not receive in the first quarter. We believe improving premiums reflect additional drilling in the first half of the year that allowed the company to blend vanadium concentrations and achieve a higher-premium product. Vanadium prices continued to sink during the quarter and were $7.98/lb. on June 30, 2023. Management indicates that vanadium prices have stabilized since the end of June and showed some signs of improving.
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