RE: Comparative valuation - Eni buys Neptune Energy for $4.9Bn24 Jun 2023 08:46
Just looking back through some posts and found this one from Keith back in April.
I hope you don’t me reposting Keith.
‘@BDT - Hi Taff, you asked "or am I just looking at this all wrong?" If my understanding of what Paul is proposing is correct, then respectfully, yes I don't think your assessment is right.
Paul stated that AS AN EXAMPLE he was looking for $150M - $200M for 40BCF. That seems reasonable to me, since 1BCF will sell to Moroccan industry for $16M, so 40BCF would have a sales value of $640M. The difference between the two figures is accounted for the cost of development by the purchaser, the time value of money over the years it would take to sell that much to end users, and of course a purchaser would want to make a reasonable profit.
The lower figure ($150M) equates to around 30p per share, or 7.5p per share for each 10 BCF - i.e. every additional 10BCF discovered and sold to the purchaser would roughly equal the current share price. If PRD only found 40 BCF, the value achieved would equal 4x the current share price - everybody seems comfortable with that, and that seems to be the model you are proposing.
Where I differ is that just MOU-3 alone is targeting a best estimate of 615BCF, high estimate of 1367BCF, not 40BCF. All other things being equal (which of course they never will be!), that would give a range of 61x - 136x the current share price. Plus the value of a royalty, which may or may not be 10%.
Feeling a bit happier? Good, enjoy the rest of your long weekend.‘