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Zacks Investment Research <\/p>\nPOSCO Holdings, Inc.\u00a0PKX via its subsidiary,\u00a0POSCO Future M,\u00a0has secured mass-production technology for silicon anode materials, strengthening its position in the next-generation battery market. Silicon anodes provide significantly higher energy density and faster charging speeds than conventional graphite-based materials. It supports growing demand from electric vehicles (EVs),\u00a0robotics\u00a0and other high-performance applications.<\/p>\n
The company\u2019s silicon anode material can store more than four times the energy of graphite-based anodes. In testing with silicon blending ratios above 20%, the material\u00a0maintained\u00a0more than 80% of its\u00a0initial\u00a0capacity after 1,000 charge-discharge cycles, outperforming conventional batteries that\u00a0generally use\u00a0only single-digit silicon blending ratios.<\/p>\n
To address the key commercialization challenge of silicon expansion during charging cycles, POSCO applied proprietary silicon nano-sizing and carbon composite technologies to minimize volume changes while\u00a0maintaining\u00a0long-term durability and performance.<\/p>\n
The company has completed product testing and quality verification with major domestic and international customers and plans to begin commercial mass production and supply in 2028, subject to market demand and conditions.<\/p>\n
POSCO expects strong future demand from premium EVs requiring longer driving ranges and faster charging times, as well as emerging applications such as humanoid robots and urban air mobility. The company is also collaborating with Factorial on advanced cathode and silicon-anode materials for next-generation solid-state batteries.<\/p>\n
Shares of PKX have gained 74.4% in the past year\u00a0against\u00a0the\u00a0industry\u2019s 2.5% decline.<\/p>\n
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PKX Zacks Rank & Key Picks <\/p>\n
PKX currently carries\u00a0a Zacks\u00a0Rank #4 (Sell).<\/p>\n
Some better-ranked stocks in the Conglomerates space are\u00a0ITT Inc.\u00a0ITT,\u00a0Mitsui & Co., Ltd.\u00a0MITSY\u00a0and\u00a0Griffon Corporation\u00a0GFF. ITT, MITSY and GFF carry\u00a0a Zacks\u00a0Rank #2 (Buy). You can see\u00a0the complete list of today\u2019s Zacks #1 (Strong Buy) Rank stocks here.<\/p>\n
The Zacks Consensus Estimate for ITT\u2019s current-year earnings\u00a0is\u00a0pegged at $7.91 per share, indicating a 17.7% year-over-year increase.\u00a0Its earnings beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate in\u00a0all of\u00a0the trailing four quarters, with the average\u00a0earnings surprise of 5.8%.<\/p>\n
The Zacks Consensus Estimate for\u00a0MITSY\u2019s current-year earnings is pegged at\u00a0$47.08\u00a0per share, indicating a\u00a021.84% year-over-year\u00a0decrease.\u00a0Shares of\u00a0MITSY\u00a0have gained\u00a082.5% over the past\u00a0year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"POSCO Holdings, Inc.\u00a0PKX via its subsidiary,\u00a0POSCO Future M,\u00a0has secured mass-production technology for silicon anode materials, strengthening its position…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32792,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[380],"tags":[2575,1001,442,15562,998],"class_list":["post-32791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-posco","tag-anode-material","tag-consensus-estimate","tag-posco","tag-silicon","tag-zacks-investment-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}