Updates
** Shares of lithium mining firm Arcadium Lithium ALTM.N up 6.4% at $4.4
** Brokerage Raymond James (PT:$9) upgrades stock rating to "strong buy" from "outperform"
** Spot lithium prices have stabilized following a steep drop, and post-merger cost synergies are taking center-stage - Brokerage
** Cost synergies are targeted at $125 mln per year by 2027, one-time capital spend savings of $200 mln expected and there should be asset optimization and logistics/procurement benefits from merger - Raymond James
** "Capacity expansion points to 2024 volumes posting healthy growth as the year progresses" - brokerage
** 11 of 18 brokerages rate the stock "buy", 6 "hold" and 1 "sell"; their median PT is $7 - LSEG data
** I session's gains, ALTM stock has fallen ~39% since its Jan 4 debut following the completion of the Livent-Alkem merger
(Reporting by Kabir Dweit)