RE: Reminder on some statements about potential offers from BOD17 May 2022 13:04
*Alex Borelli closes AGM with thoughts on share price and takeovers
- Analysts report valuations in the market on GGP currently have expectations that the SP should be around the mid 20’s and above.
- If there is a takeover approach, there is a formal process that is adopted, although not subject to shareholder approval, a form of acceptance will go to shareholders from an offeror, but the offeror would seek to have a board recommendation and it is incumbent on us to have a valuation report on the company.
- So we would go through the motions of being totally considered on the value of any offer that was received, but of course we’re not in that position at all at this stage.
Notes from Sunday Roast Podcast back in Feb:
* Thought of splitting assets into various companies so you can sell assets individually if approached by different majors?
- Interesting but really focused on building a multi asset, multi-billion dollar mining house with Havieron as a platform to build it from, so unlikely
- Not allergic to making money however, if someone wants to buy an asset at a value that otherwise would take years to unlock, then of course we would consider it if someone accelerates our pathway to creating value, really interested to do that
- Shaun uses examples from career where growth was achieved inc. a sale of a well at Sakari and market cap and asset growth achieved while CFO at Northern Star Resources from a single mine to multiple assets.
* Looks as if the crown jewels are Havieron, if NCM came to you with a big enough offer, would you sell it all?
- Brilliant question, looking at his vision for Greatland as a multi asset platform, not what he hopes will happen
- However if they think someone can offer us the value that we can unlock at Havieron over 3 to 5 years today and derisk that for our shareholders and presumably, we’d rather that money today than in 5 years’ time, then we would have to take that seriously and ultimately it would be put to shareholders and up to them to make that decision
- But it would be with a tinge of sadness, not allergic to making money but we’ve got something really special here and the challenge to shareholders and management is that we do unlock the full value of it
- That comes with patience and the hard work of developing and planning it out over the future years but yeah if we can take a short cut to that, we’d have to think about it.
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