Portfolio of Lithium Stocks

Increased demand for hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) and consumer electronic products (laptop computers, cameras, cellular phones, PDAs and iPods) that use lithium components should cause lithium miners, processors and battery manufacturers to prosper.

The following table includes 13 companies that manufacture lithium products and mine lithium plus one lithium exchange-traded fund (ETF).

Many of these stocks are speculative so check out their price charts.

Lithium Stocks
Stock	Price Quote	Interactive Price Chart	10-Year Moving Average	Return Calculator	Return Map	Comment
Altair Nanotechnologies	ALTI	Chart	Chart	Table	Map	Lithium titinate-based batteries.
Arotech Corporation	ARTX	Chart	Chart	Table	Map	Lithium batteries and other products.
Canada Lithium Corp.	CLQ.TO	Chart	Chart	Table	Map	Lithium mining - Canada.
China BAK Battery	CBAK	Chart	Chart	Table	Map	Lithium batteries.
FMC Corporation	FMC	Chart	Chart	Table	Map	A diversified chemical manufacturer with lithium products.
Global X Lithium ETF	LIT	Chart	Chart	Table	Map	Exchange-traded fund started in July 2010.
Greatbatch	GB	Chart	Chart	Table	Map	A medical device company that manufactures lithium battery packs.
Lithium Americas Corp.	LAC.TO	Chart	Chart	Table	Map	Lithium mining - Argentina.
Orocobre Limited	ORL.TO	Chart	Chart	Table	Map	Lithium mining - Argentina.
Polypore International	PPO	Chart	Chart	Table	Map	Membrane separators for lithium batteries.
Rockwood Holdings	ROC	Chart	Chart	Table	Map	Lithium compounds and chemicals.
Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile S.A. (SQM)	SQM	Chart	Chart	Table	Map	World's largest lithium producer.
Talison Lithium	TLH.TO	Chart	Chart	Table	Map	Lithium mining - Australia.
Valence Technology	VLNCQ	Chart	Chart	Table	Map	Lithium battery modules.

To follow the day-to-day progress of the Lithium Stocks portfolio, check out the returns table and chart below. Portfolio values are computed using weekly closes for stocks from Yahoo! Finance.

The 5 stocks included in the value computations are: ALTI, ARTX, FMC, GB and VLNCQ. The current value of the portfolio assumes that $2,000.00 was invested (total of $10,000) in each stock at its closing weekly price for the first week of January 2003. The 9 stocks excluded from the chart computations because of insufficient price data are: CLQ.TO, CBAK, LIT, LAC.TO, ORL.TO, PPO, ROC, SQM and TLH.TO.

Lithium Stocks - Return Results
Portfolio:	Lithium Stocks
Start date:	Jan-02-2003
Start value:	$10,000
End date:	Jun-19-2013
End value:	$23,243
Number prices	547
Minimum value occurred on Mar-10-2003	$8,526
Maximum value occurred on Jan-20-2004	$36,653
Total gain or loss (Start date to End date)	132.43%
Annualized gain or loss (Start date to End date)	8.35%
Sharpe Ratio	0.64
Total dollar value on End date of a $10,000 purchase made on Start date	$23,243
Average percent return for all possible buy/sell combinations	0.15%
Number returns	149,331
Number profitable returns (Winners)	60,952
Percent profitable returns	40.82%
Number unprofitable returns (Losers)	88,379
Percent unprofitable returns	59.18%
Winners to losers ratio	0.69

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