RE: This will continue to rise why?15 Oct 2020 12:23
This is a difficult exercise in valuation. I was just now posting about this on ADVFN.
I have been unable to find a (current) research note of any kind on OMI. It is a small AIM gold miner with an undeveloped asset that two of the top 10 gold majors (Nos. 1 and 8) are looking to earn their shares in. Clearly a very attractive situation but not an easy one to analyse, so maybe no research note exists (yet). I have certainly been unable to track one down. I registered with the house broker (SP Angel) but they have nothing to offer and I have been unable to find anything on Research Tree. I am in with a 3.5p average and do not want to sell too early, but to say that I am now overweight here is an understatement. Before I sell it would be great to see someone else’s take on it all (independent or not - all research notes should of course be taken with a pinch of salt). Can anyone else help?
My own extremely rudimentary approach to valuation is to assume that the majors would not be involved if this wasn’t highly likely to be a 5Moz or, if you like, $10BN resource. Then I ask myself how much of that $10BN will, at the end of the day, realistically translate into bottom line profit for the owners. Let’s say $2BN. So if OMI ends up with 25% of that, it suggests that the share price has very significant headroom. But we are looking at income earned over a period of years and starting many years down the line, it is possible that the resource may not be quite what it appears to be, some dilution may occur through share issuance by OMI or OMI may not be able to hold on to as much as a 25% share of the asset. I could go on. This is why I would love to see someone else’s stab at valuing what OMI have here.