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Bellers, you just agreed with my point. Your hypothetical house will be based on similar house valuations in the street or area. If they are all worth 100k how can you put a value of 1m on yours. Doesn't make sense right.
These deals are based on discounted expected cashflow and profits. If the DFS says EUA assets can generate billions in cash flows and profit similar to Sibyane without any outlay then sure someone will pay is 15bn, it is possible.
Billions, that’s a load of skcollob. I can sell a house but don't have to prove I can construct one. I only have to prove it's value. I leavethe construction to the likes of Redrow. The agent gives the value after his expert diiligence.
Sibyane stillwater 2020 report. This is what a 15bn company looks like:
https://thevault.exchange/?get_group_doc=245/1613632402-sibanye-stillwater-H2-YE2020-presentation-18feb2021.pdf
Eua may end up being at this level but will takes years and many millions for it to reach there. Hence any sale will be benchmarked against the likes of Sibyane but with a heavy discount. Again this is part of the DFS. Really wish management would publish this to make is clearer.
2 years since suspension Billions? I knew I felt a lot older but I’m certain the suspension was started mid Feb 2020 and concluded July 2020. Huge gains prior and after for those of us invested then. Happy days!
Billions you really have made my evening! So it’s the 2 year anniversary of the suspension?
Such a shame the suspension began February 2020...
MJS and all, the failure to press the big green button with SS is a clear indication of EUA’s plans. It completely avoids having to untangle a contract which could get difficult/messy for the buyer such as NN should the agreement of already gone live.
I think most of us have all come to the same conclusion on FSP being pretty much nailed on in one form or another , it’s just a bloody shame none of us have enough information available to put a price on it?
The Powerof78 certainly helps but even that might be a million oops sorry billion miles away........
Here’s hoping......!!
Certainly reads like him. Filtered anyway.
Don't know where those figures have come from but I'm guessing there are little bits of Andrex stuck around the edges. PGM reserves for SS are about 27Moz.
I thought it was only 1 year anniversary of the suspension?
'They have 82m oz reserves and 477m oz resources and they are a derisked and generating billions of cashflow. Unfortunately Eua need to demonstrate extracting and selling of the resources to be valued fully.'
Well, this is the thing, they haven't had the opportunity to do so, and in this is where it gets interesting, for all intents and purposes at the moment, EUA is a small fish, but with the right tactics? Anything is possible.
The SS has been there for a while, it hasn't been activated, why? Every interview I've seen from CS was suggesting to the fact that they were almost ready to get the ball rolling. Smoke and mirrors to entice buyers? Maybe, either way it worked.
Clearly, whoever is bidding for the company has seen this development and has decided to step in before it's too late, and whoever is going to acquire the assets, you can be sure they know exactly what value they will be adding to their own balance sheet over the next decade.
I think the DS and CS have played the game perfectly and are about to checkmate.
Yes Monmuzard you are correct. The SS mcap may even be $15bn, see different figures in different places.
They have 82m oz reserves and 477m oz resources and they are a derisked and generating billions of cashflow. Unfortunately Eua need to demonstrate extracting and selling of the resources to be valued fully.
A couple of billion is still my estimate. If Dmitri can get more than he is the best salesman to have lived
@Billions - Yes, Sibanye-Stillwater's market cap is about $12bn, and the former paid around 1/5 of that to acquire the latter. It is, then, quite plausible that NN would pay a similar fraction of their market cap to acquire a single asset which will be generating potentially far more than $1bn a year once in full production, and will therefore increase NN's market cap substantially.
@mjs - I have had exactly the same thoughts as you. Every bidder will have been thinking in multiple billions and realising they can still make money, and all the while NN will be knowing that, no matter the price, they cannot afford not to buy it.
@Hoochy/Gary - I agree, the money side will be the easiest bit. Companies, especially those in a sector where the assets are finite, aren't like people: the last thing they want sitting on their balance sheet is large amounts of cash. They need to secure future revenue streams, and will spend big when those streams are fewer in number and getting dryer.
Is Billions Rowka?
The longer this goes on the more i am convinced it could be bigger than most here think.
Its not just about the value now, its about securing assets and making sure others don't get them.
https://www.mining.com/web/mining-deals-to-pick-up-as-world-reopens-leading-adviser-says/
If I remember correctly it is nearly the 2 year anniversary of the suspension and nomad debacle. Hard to believe a deal could not be done in this time frame however complex.
Its a shame they are able to hide behind the FSP, if this was a regular offer period the deal would have been done ages ago.
Then again this is Russia after all.
Says Hooch the guy who wants to give the business away for a measly £35 a share.
What is quite interesting, it's widely mentioned that the BOD have had discussions of a potential sale of these assets way before the FSP started.
For them to even progress to a FSP, this suggests that the discussions over the suspension period were very productive and that potential buyers have shown their appetitie to stump up the money to acquire the assets.
Then I think about the professional advisors, UBS and DLA Piper.
I feel like those names during the first few months of the FSP were used as a hype machine to sell the legitamacy of the FSP, but they shouldn't have, because the track record of the company and BOD sold itself, the additions of such well known and highly specialised M&A organisations running the process, was a bonus.
And I think this is where market has missed it completely, the market has been so obsessed with the idea of a conspiracy, too good to be true or a fire/panic sale by the BOD, that it has completely ignored the relevancy of such professional advisors at the table and what positive consequences may result of such a thing.
I always thought £1-£1.25 (I got called out for deramping when I posted that here a little while ago) would be the most reasonable price that a buyer would be willing to pay, but I've been second guessing my prediction recently, going over the RNSs, the interviews and with the way the prices of the metals are going, I've started to feel like we would be getting ripped off at that price.
I'm genuinely starting to believe that £1.50-£2.00 may be the minimum price the BOD will sell for, this level of advisors were brought on to the table for a reason, and I think the market is in for a massive shock.
So what
This deal will be a multi company buy
$11 billion will be no issue between them.
Remember BINDING OFFERS/ COMPLEX DEAL !!!
Wont be a single buyer IMO
From a tangible fact perspective Sibanye stillwater had profit of $1.2bn last year. They have a market cap of $8bn.
I would love it if the deal was in multiple billions but the whole world must be missing a trick apart from a few visonary posters on this BB.
We’ll put Montmuzard.
Now firmly believe the longer this goes on, we’ll see an offer that blows out socks off. 18 months in with banks grafting on a success fee basis.....it’s got to be £5billion minimum?
Thanks Tigra, Indeed it will be many multiples of the current price hopefully.
Good luck to everyone.
"I’d love a $10bn sale as it would net over £7-9m profit, sadly I think that it’s something the board of somebody such as Nornickel could justify to their shareholders. After all, it’s 1/5th of their entire market Cap".
Yeah, and what would their market cap rise to once they had Eurasia on the balance sheet? It would certainly be more than it is right now, and it would, over time, be much more than $10bn. I've said it a few times lately: you have stop looking at the buyout price as "a cost" to the buyer. It costs them nothing. They are simply switching a relatively smaller amount of cash for a relatively much bigger asset. The overall value of their asset base and therefore company will rise ... dramatically.
PGM prices are rising because they are in deficit, and are forecast to that way for the foreseeable. So I’d say that makes a sale more attractive to buyers, can they afford to miss out on the only opportunity of its kind? can they afford to allow it to go to their competitors.....
Do the rising metal prices make a sale more or less attractive for prospective buyers?
Tigra
With your train of thought all the way !!!
Tigra, a very sound point well made. It illustrates my point really, without a DFS there is no viability of measured reserves, mining volumes, costs and investment etc.
Which means everything on this BB is guesswork with extremely limited information available to the public.
I like to look at comparable transactions, other value multiples some just dream up numbers.
But this is what makes the market.