Aqua Metals (AQMS)

• Market cap: $12.8M
• 1 day: -3.74%
• 5 days: -11.76%
• 1 month: -0.55%
• 3 months: -28.85%
• 6 months: -48.42%
• Year to date: -28.85%
• 1 year: -87.27%
• 5 years: -78.05%
• 10 years: -98.32%
• Sector: Materials
• Industry: Secondary Smelting & Refining of Nonferrous Metals

About: Aqua Metals Inc is engaged in the business of recycling Lead through a novel, proprietary and patent-pending process that it developed and named AquaRefining. The company's breakthrough, AquaRefining, delivers a product, at a higher yield, eliminates toxic waste, reduces permitting and is less expensive to build than smelting. AquaRefining process will provide for the recycling of Lead acid batteries and the production of a pure grade Lead with a significantly lower cost of production, and with fewer environmental and regulatory issues, than conventional methods of Lead production.

Employees: 53

Fund manager confidence

Based on 2024 Q4 regulatory filings by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)

167% more call options, than puts

Call options by funds: $48K | Put options by funds: $18K

1.97% less ownership

Funds ownership: 15.58% [Q3] → 13.61% (-1.97%) [Q4]

27% less capital invested

Capital invested by funds: $3.3M [Q3] → $2.41M (-$890K) [Q4]

41% less funds holding

Funds holding: 54 [Q3] → 32 (-22) [Q4]

81% less first-time investments, than exits

New positions opened: 5 | Existing positions closed: 27

92% less repeat investments, than reductions

Existing positions increased: 2 | Existing positions reduced: 25