RE: GGP SP and false promises4 Oct 2023 09:54
I have criticised Mr. Day as the face of Ggp for the non-publication of a MRE, for Ggp shareholders, though I fully understand he is a junior partner in the JV. That’s being put right, so-called this quarter, but I feel he either knew what was going on, or didn’t. It is not satisfactory either way. He will know that.
I leave exploration alone, though the tie-up with Rio may prove significant.
There’s nothing wrong with the Havieron project, or his conduct with Newcrest in that respect - 5% and all that. But you would have expected the MD to represent shareholders.
We seem to have a heavyweight board. Yet no activities justifying their current existence - Newcrest run operational activities at Hav. Perhaps that will change.
On Newmont decision, you will know I am unenthusiastic about 70%, at first sight the debt/equity dwarfs Ggp market cap - can’t see it.
Yet it is not all or nothing, if it comes to that. There are options, permutations, and many ways debt/repayment could be structured, some have been mentioned, and convertible loan notes and all the rest of it.
It is the Newmont decision that will continue to dominate. That could drag on. And is unhelpful to the sp.
In the end, my only expectation is for Mr.Day to best play the hand he is dealt by Newmont.