RE: Ggp new JV18 Dec 2025 10:10
the warning signs were flashing bright red when antipa rns’ all mentioned greatland multiple times. it looked like desperation to me. making overtures to be taken over is basically admitting you’ve played your hand, you’re in hot water and you want someone else to shovel the **** for you.
if you want someone to take you out, develop your business/asset and keep your eye on that. antipa (and its shareholders) fell in love with itself and is now paying the price. i’ve been the other side of that trade and it’s brutal. antipa will bleed out and ggp will feed on the scraps, probably no time soon.
there are obvious strategic advantages to being within a close proximity to other goldies. but the width of ggp’s proverbial moat is colossal in this context. unless antipa was sitting on the mother of all deposits, only ggp would ever be suitors.
in short, antipa played their hand way too early, took their eye of running the business properly and is now having to go back and do the hard yards. this fictitious ggp love in has cost them at least a year in their development cycle imo.