RE: Dividend21 Jul 2022 13:51
MTL are intensely focused on paying off the Senior debt to get the Mezzanine debt interest rate down to 7%. $64.7m paid in 7 quarters (averaging around $9.25m per quarter) leaving just $8.1m left to pay on the Senior debt.
The increased forecast production for 2023 and 2024 will enable the Mezzanine debt to be cleared in H1 2025.
During that time until being debt free, further exploration will have extended the LOM to add more cash to the bottom line. Who knows where any of the 4 possible M&A targets will have progressed to by then?
Even without any of the significant upside mentioned above, the brokers have forecast $120m cash balance at the end of the current LOM. Extending LOM by 1 year adds another $50m to the cash balance. Some of the $120m - $170m will be paid to shareholders as dividends with the rest being used for the growth of MTL externally.