UVE vs LAC Comparison

Universal Insurance Holdings Inc is a private personal residential homeowner insurance company. The company develops, markets, and underwrites insurance products for consumers predominantly in the personal residential homeowners' lines of business and performs substantially all other insurance-related services for its primary insurance entities, including risk management, claims management, and distribution. The company generates revenue from the collection of premiums, earned net interest and dividend income from the investment portfolio, the collection of reinsurance recoverable and financing fees. The company's primary insurance subsidiaries, (UPCIC) and (APPCIC) provide insurance for personal residential: homeowners, renters/tenants, condo unit owners, and other related coverages.

Lithium Americas is a pure-play lithium producer. The firm owns 62% of one resource, Thacker Pass, that is located in northwest Nevada, with automaker General Motors owning the remaining 38%. Thacker Pass recently began construction and is expected to begin production in the late 2020s. Thacker Pass is one of the largest known lithium resources in the world. The project would be the first clay-based asset to enter production, and we estimate it will be in bottom half of the global cost curve. Management plans to develop Thacker Pass into a fully integrated lithium production site, with downstream refining capabilities on site, and will sell into the lithium chemical market.