Debt, gross and net (can we get the LHS=RHS?)30 Nov 2020 16:54
I am returning to the TU and som of the comments by Londoner7, Tomo8080, Therapist, hitman1a, Pelle, gkb47, Comrad Tarmak and others interested in matters of substance
I start w/ net debt, as i have yet to reconcile the figures. I know that every year b/w 1July and 31Oct Enq always faces a big interest expense bill. Both bonds pay interest during that period, the Oz loan also pays interest in September (I assume interest is paid every quarter, but to err on the side of caution I will assume that it is paid once every semester), ditto for the RCF, paid at the start of October every year (although RCF's interest migh just be paid once a year, instead of every semester which is what I assume below.
My calculation find that ENQ must have sold its production at low prices during that period for net debt to have increased by $37M.
First of all I want to ask how could have net debt gone up by $37M. Given that there was a payment of $40M of the RCF, this means that other gross debt (net of cash) would have to have gone up by $77M. We know that the cash position b/w 30 June and 31 October changed only slightly, as cash and available bank facilities amounted to $270M on June30 and $268M on Oct31. This means that gross debt on all other items besides the principal of the RCF went up by $75M.
The question is how we get to that $75M. Several additional debt lines can be listed more or less objectively. The retail bond's PIK interest bill was $8.3M. The higb bond PIK interest bill was $27M. To this amount I have to add the increase in the debt due to the appreciation of GBP versus the USD, since there is one bond denominated in GBP. My revised calculation for this is $14M, (not the c. $10M I had indicated before). These 3 items add up to $49.3M.
So, I am missing c. $25.7M to get the debt up to the stated figure!!! The The RCF interest bill in the semester would have been $12.8M, and this was PIK interest. But, it is possible that RCF interest is only paid annually, in which case the PIK interest was $25.6M. And suddenly, the LHS=RHS!
Note that this hypothetical last item would imply that the OZ loan lalf-yearly interest due, about $3.2M would have been paid to Oz capital. But on the other hand the principal due on the Oz loan would have not decreased (which does not seem possible as the hedges at $52/bbl +- Kraken premium would have generated positive CF, and so there would have been some repayment). IN the case there is no quarterly cash flow sweep, the reduction of the Oz loan will only occur in Nonv/Dec, so all is fine! A repyment made on the Oz loan messes up the calculations. The only way to balnce the numbers is for the SVT $10M to have been renegotiated and increased by an amount equal to the amount the Oz loan decreased.
Finally, let me add PIK is not part of the FCF break even figure ENQ has put forward.
GLA and keep safe from the posters who appear in green on my screen