RE: Orr28 Nov 2018 10:24
http://www.valuethemarkets.com/index.php/2018/04/09/next-12-months-going-active-new-stratex-boss-tim-livesey-will-turn-company-around/?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=socialnetwork
Valuation
It is early days for Stratex’s turnaround. The firm does not have a regular income stream, and a significant amount of its focus currently lies in rebuilding shareholder and market confidence after last year’s turbulence. Even with that in mind, the business looks good value with a current market cap of just £2.9m.
Stratex’s latest balance sheet, released last month, shows an enterprise value of just over £2m. Essentially, this means the market is ascribing a present value of just c.£900,000 to its business. The figure seems out of kilter with the company’s situation, when IAMGOLD has already committed to potentially spending $8m on exploring Dalafin while allowing Stratex to hold on to a decent interest. And that doesn’t even factor in the rest of the firm’s investments, which includes Turkish assets with future production royalties. Add to this the fact that Stratex is set to expand even further, and you’ve got an organisation operating with ambitions well beyond the value attributed to it. What’s more, Stratex had no debt as of the end of 2017.
Quite clearly, this discount is related to last year’s boardroom turbulence and shareholder revolt. Despite a raft of news flow indicating progress, Stratex’s share price has so far failed to recover ground lost, with shares sitting at just 0.6p. As Livesey puts it:
‘I think Stratex is greatly undervalued, particularly when you think that if some companies had a deal like the one we have with IAMGOLD, then that would be all they would need to get completely re-rated in the stock market. The low valuation can be put down to a lingering hangover from last year and is not justified. We tried to do something the shareholders didn’t like, we took that on board, we didn’t do the deal, and we have realigned back to where most shareholders wanted us to be. We are now focusing on delivering what shareholders want and need to develop some new projects, partnerships, and acquisitions. The next 12 months are going to be very, very active.’