AQMS Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Aqua Metals | NASDAQ:AQMS)

Aqua Metals Inc is developing and seeking to commercialize proprietary recycling and refining technologies for the recovery of critical minerals and metals. Its patented and patent-pending AquaRefining process is an electro-hydrometallurgical method designed to recover high-purity materials from battery and other metal-bearing feedstocks using a closed-loop system powered by electricity. Its idea is to reduce CAPEX and OPEX costs, reduce emissions, hazardous waste, and reliance on conventional smelting and chemical-intensive refining processes. It has one operating segment: sustainable metals recycling. It focused on the development and commercialization of AquaRefining technology for the clean and efficient recovery of valuable metals from lead-acid and lithium-ion batteries.

Aqua Metals trades on the NASDAQ stock market under the symbol AQMS.

As of October 23, 2026, AQMS stock price declined to $1.43 with 9,496 million shares trading.

AQMS has a beta of 3.56, meaning it tends to be more sensitive to market movements. AQMS has a correlation of 0.22 to the broad based SPY ETF.

AQMS has a market cap of $5.08 million. This is considered a Sub-Micro Cap stock.

In the last 3 years, AQMS traded as high as $197.76 and as low as $1.41.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that AQMS belongs to (by Net Assets): VXF.

AQMS has underperformed the market in the last year with a price return of -85.4% while the SPY ETF gained +14.8%. AQMS has also underperformed the stock market ETF in the last 3 month and 2 week periods returning -47.6% and -30.9%, respectively, while the SPY returned +1.8% and -1.9%, respectively.

AQMS support price is $1.39 and resistance is $1.59 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that AQMS shares will trade within this expected range on the day.