Lightbridge (LTBR) Stock Price, News & Analysis

Company Overview

Lightbridge Corporation is a nuclear fuel technology company focused on developing advanced fuel designs for commercial nuclear reactors. Its primary technology is a metallic nuclear fuel intended to improve reactor performance, safety characteristics and operating economics compared with conventional fuel designs.

The company’s fuel technology is being developed for potential use in both existing light-water reactors and next-generation reactors. Lightbridge has also explored fuel designs incorporating thorium and uranium, although its current development efforts center on metallic fuel assemblies and related materials and manufacturing technologies.

Lightbridge was previously known as Thorium Power and adopted the Lightbridge name as it expanded its focus on advanced nuclear fuel technologies. The company is headquartered in Reston, Virginia, and its work is aimed at serving the global nuclear power industry. Seth Grae has served as the company’s president and chief executive officer.

Key Stats

• Today's Range: $5.75 to $6.01
• 50-Day Range: $6.01 to $9.47
• 52-Week Range: $5.75 to $31.33
• Volume: 302,123 shs
• Average Volume: 881,234 shs
• Market Capitalization: $217.08 million
• P/E Ratio: N/A
• Dividend Yield: N/A
• Price Target: N/A
• Consensus Rating: Sell

Lightbridge Stock Analysis - MarketRank™

Lightbridge scored higher than 19% of companies evaluated by MarketBeat, and ranked 236th out of 250 stocks in the energy sector. Scores are calculated by averaging available category scores, with extra weight given to analysis and valuation.

Analyst's Opinion

• Score: 0.7 / 5
• Analyst Rating: Sell

Consensus Rating

Lightbridge has received a consensus rating of Sell. The company's average rating score is 1.00, and is based on no strong buy ratings, no buy ratings, no hold ratings, and 1 sell rating.

Amount of Analyst Coverage

Lightbridge has only been the subject of 1 research reports in the past 90 days.

Earnings and Valuation

• Score: 0.6 / 5
• Proj. Earnings Growth: N/A

Price to Earnings Ratio vs. the Market

The P/E ratio of Lightbridge is -7.34, which means that its earnings are negative and its P/E ratio cannot be compared to companies with positive earnings.

Price to Earnings Ratio vs. Sector

The P/E ratio of Lightbridge is -7.34, which means that its earnings are negative and its P/E ratio cannot be compared to companies with positive earnings.

Price to Book Value per Share Ratio

Lightbridge has a P/B Ratio of 0.93. P/B Ratios below 1 indicate that a company could be undervalued with respect to its assets and liabilities.

Short Interest

• Score: 4.0 / 5
• Short Interest Level: Healthy

Percentage of Shares Shorted

11.59% of the float of Lightbridge has been sold short.

Short Interest Ratio / Days to Cover

Lightbridge has a short interest ratio ("days to cover") of 3.99, which is generally considered an acceptable ratio of short interest to trading volume.

Change versus previous month

Short interest in Lightbridge has recently decreased by 16.09%, indicating that investor sentiment is improving significantly.

Dividend

• Score: 0.0 / 5
• Dividend Strength: N/A

Dividend Yield

Lightbridge does not currently pay a dividend.

Dividend Growth

Lightbridge does not have a long track record of dividend growth.

News and Social Media

• Score: 3.0 / 5
• News Sentiment: 0.79

News Sentiment

Lightbridge has a news sentiment score of 0.79. This score is calculated as an average of sentiment of articles about the company over the last seven days and ranges from 2 (good news) to -2 (bad news). This news sentiment score is similar to the average news sentiment of Energy companies.

News Coverage This Week

MarketBeat has tracked 3 news articles for Lightbridge this week, compared to 2 articles on an average week.

Search Interest

9 people have searched for LTBR on MarketBeat in the last 30 days. This is an increase of 50% compared to the previous 30 days.

MarketBeat Follows

Only 1 people have added Lightbridge to their MarketBeat watchlist in the last 30 days. This is a decrease of -50% compared to the previous 30 days.

Company Ownership

• Score: 1.0 / 5
• Insider Trading: Selling Shares

Insider Buying vs. Insider Selling

In the past three months, Lightbridge insiders have sold more of their company's stock than they have bought. Specifically, they have bought $0.00 in company stock and sold $134,850.00 in company stock.

Percentage Held by Insiders

5.40% of the stock of Lightbridge is held by insiders.

Percentage Held by Institutions

9.14% of the stock of Lightbridge is held by institutions.

Company Calendar

• Last Earnings: 8/05/2026
• Today: 10/12/2026
• Next Earnings (Estimated): 11/04/2026
• Fiscal Year End: 12/31/2026

Industry, Sector and Symbol

• Stock Exchange: NASDAQ
• Sector: Energy
• Industry: Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels
• Sub-Industry: Coal & Consumable Fuels
• Current Symbol: NASDAQ:LTBR
• CIK: 1084554
• Web: www.ltbridge.com
• Phone: (571) 730-1200
• Fax: 571-730-1260
• Employees: 13
• Year Founded: 2009

Profitability

• EPS (Trailing Twelve Months): ($0.79)
• Trailing P/E Ratio: N/A
• Forward P/E Ratio: N/A
• P/E Growth: N/A
• Net Income: -$19.58 million
• Net Margins: N/A
• Pretax Margin: N/A
• Return on Equity: -11.51%
• Return on Assets: -11.43%

Debt

• Debt-to-Equity Ratio: N/A
• Current Ratio: 116.57
• Quick Ratio: 116.57

Sales & Book Value

• Annual Sales: N/A
• Price / Sales: N/A
• Cash Flow: N/A
• Price / Cash Flow: N/A
• Book Value: $6.22 per share
• Price / Book: 0.93

Miscellaneous

• Outstanding Shares: 37,460,000
• Free Float: 35,435,000
• Market Cap: $217.27 million
• Optionable: Optionable
• Beta: 2.08