Lucid Penny Stock Status Almost 2 Years Old

By Douglas A. McIntyre Published Sep 17, 6:40AM EDT

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Lucid Group Inc. (NASDAQ: LCID | BA Price Prediction) has been a penny stock for almost two years.
The stock has underperformed the broader market in that time.
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Lucid Group Inc. (NASDAQ: LCID) has been a penny stock (under $5) for almost two years, and it should never have traded above that. The stock of the deeply troubled electric vehicle (EV) company was down approximately 10% this year, while the S&P 500 was 18% higher. The share price is 77% lower in the past two years, while the S&P 500 is up 45%.

Lucid has been unable to escape the fact that it is a tiny player in an industry whose growth has unexpectedly slowed. It delivered only 2,394 vehicles in the second quarter and expects to do no more than 9,000 this year. It has revenue of only $200 million and a loss of $643 million, which adds to a long string of quarters with red ink.

In an era when the race is to produce a $25,000 EV to lift the industry from its doldrums, Lucid’s cars cost $80,000. They have unspectacular ranges of less than 400 miles on a single charge. An investment of $1.5 billion from the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia is not enough to sustain it.

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

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A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.