Benzinga · Jul 31, 2026
Benchmark Maintains Speculative Buy on Aqua Metals, Lowers Price Target to $5
Benchmark analyst Mickey Legg maintains Aqua Metals (NASDAQ:AQMS) with a Speculative Buy and lowers the price target from $12 to $5.
AQ
NASDAQ · AQMS
Aqua Metals, Inc.
Industrials · Waste Management
$2.69
Up+$0.14 (+5.20%)
Updated Aug 14, 2026, 12:08 AM
SID Score
3.0/10
Composite research score
Smart Money
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Institutional and insider signal
- Market cap
- 14.61M
- P/E ratio
- -0
- Dividend yield
- 0.00%
- 52-week range
- $2.46 – $39.40
- Volume
- 12.84K
- Avg. volume
- 319.92K
Price performance
AQMS price history
1M range · 20 trading sessions · Daily adjusted prices
AQMS closed at $2.69 after 20 trading sessions, up 1.89% for the selected period.
- Last close
- $2.69
- Period change
- +1.89%
- Period low
- $2.48
- Period high
- $2.86
Daily close
View OHLC price history
| Date | Open | High | Low | Close | Volume |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 12, 2026 | $2.65 | $2.79 | $2.64 | $2.69 | 12.84K |
| Aug 11, 2026 | $2.78 | $2.78 | $2.64 | $2.64 | 15.3K |
| Aug 10, 2026 | $2.84 | $2.84 | $2.70 | $2.73 | 37.21K |
| Aug 7, 2026 | $2.78 | $2.9167 | $2.7063 | $2.86 | 65.67K |
| Aug 6, 2026 | $2.74 | $2.75 | $2.5613 | $2.68 | 8.93K |
| Aug 5, 2026 | $2.5101 | $2.78 | $2.5101 | $2.67 | 83.19K |
| Aug 4, 2026 | $2.52 | $2.6205 | $2.50 | $2.50 | 36.81K |
| Aug 3, 2026 | $2.58 | $2.6899 | $2.4606 | $2.48 | 31.64K |
| Jul 31, 2026 | $2.88 | $2.88 | $2.47 | $2.53 | 70.47K |
| Jul 30, 2026 | $2.89 | $2.89 | $2.7601 | $2.86 | 30.54K |
| Jul 29, 2026 | $2.79 | $2.89 | $2.7204 | $2.75 | 40.11K |
| Jul 28, 2026 | $2.74 | $2.86 | $2.6787 | $2.80 | 16.89K |
| Jul 27, 2026 | $2.79 | $2.7945 | $2.71 | $2.75 | 10.99K |
| Jul 24, 2026 | $2.63 | $2.76 | $2.63 | $2.71 | 14.24K |
| Jul 23, 2026 | $2.69 | $2.805 | $2.63 | $2.66 | 12.32K |
| Jul 22, 2026 | $2.733 | $2.825 | $2.71 | $2.73 | 13.36K |
| Jul 21, 2026 | $2.86 | $2.90 | $2.7128 | $2.80 | 20.34K |
| Jul 20, 2026 | $2.68 | $2.85 | $2.63 | $2.81 | 30.83K |
| Jul 17, 2026 | $2.68 | $2.68 | $2.57 | $2.62 | 26.91K |
| Jul 16, 2026 | $2.70 | $2.76 | $2.62 | $2.64 | 27.61K |
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Overview
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Company profile
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.
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Consensus and target data currently published for this company.
- Consensus
- —
- Average target
- $7.14
- Implied upside
- —
- Analysts
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| Date | Firm | Rating | Target |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 31, 2026 | Benchmark | Speculative Buy | — |
| Oct 23, 2025 | Benchmark | Speculative Buy | — |
| Apr 2, 2025 | Benchmark | Speculative Buy | — |
| Aug 6, 2024 | Benchmark | Speculative Buy | — |
| Aug 6, 2024 | HC Wainwright & Co. | Buy | — |
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SeekingAlpha · Jul 31, 2026
Aqua Metals, Inc. 2026 Q2 - Results - Earnings Call Presentation
2026-07-31. The following slide deck was published by Aqua Metals, Inc.
SeekingAlpha · Jul 30, 2026
Aqua Metals, Inc. (AQMS) Q2 2026 Earnings Call Transcript
Aqua Metals, Inc. (AQMS) Q2 2026 Earnings Call July 30, 2026 4:30 PM EDTCompany ParticipantsDan ScottStephen Cotton - CEO, President & DirectorEric West...
Benzinga · Jul 30, 2026
Aqua Metals Q2 EPS $(1.31) Up From $(2.40) YoY
Aqua Metals (NASDAQ:AQMS) reported quarterly losses of $(1.31) per share. This is a 45.42 percent increase over losses of $(2.40) per share from the same period last year.
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