@carrinm, here are my Lithium plays I am following/invested in
DJIFF - Danjin Resources with mining operations in Nevada close to Tesla.
HMGLF - Pure Energy Metals
SSMLF - Nevada Energy Metals.
These were discovered and provided to me in a newsletter I get.
Thanks. I did a little digging into these companies and also into the constituents of the LIT ETF. The problem with LIT is it also includes investments in companies that process Lithium like FMC Corporation and SAFT in France and Samsung SDI. So it is not a pure play on Lithium mining.
The largest miner in LIT is Sociedad Quimica y Minera de Chile SA SQM. It mines in Chile and has a market cap of $7 billion. Compared to this the largest in your list is HMGLF with a market cap of $52 million. It is a minnow. My investing approach is to put very little stakes on a bunch of minnows and place the bigger investments where I know the business will survive bad times.
Now I made a chart of one of the minnows (DJIFF) - it is the Orange line. this is a 5 year chart. I then compared it with LIT (Red) and SQM (Blue). What the chart tells me is DJIFF and LIT are pretty much in the same place compared to each other and SQM has lagged. My thesis would be if Lithium is going to be the new Black Gold, SQM is likely to close that gap and do at least as much as any of the minnows - and we know they will stay in business.
This is true if all other things stay the same. Chile has different sovereign risk to mines based in US. Currency risk is different too. To mitigate some of those risks I quite like Galaxy Resources. They have mines in Australia and Canada and a salt brine development being put together in Bolivia. That spreads the sovereign risk and some of the currency risk. It is also 10 times bigger than the largest of the minnows.
My 10 cents worth and my own analysis