Valuation of company (based on latest Roast podcast).2 Apr 2023 19:50
I posted these figure on the Telegram group. This is all available from the Roast podcast.
Lithium plant (annual - based on one 8 hour shift/ 5 days/week) 8300 tonnes pa.
Feedstock price will vary between £1500 & £4500 / tonne.
Based on the 8300 input feedstock, the output black mass will be 5000 tonnes.
This will now sell for between £5000 and £6000 /tonne.
Annual figures are:
Gate feed (8300 * £2500) = £21m (approx)
Black mass (5000 * 5000) = £25m.
This £46m is probably conservative and does not include revenue from:
Mines
Halo boxes
Lead acid plant (which will generate about 30% margin but no figures were given in terms of sales values)
Potential mobile units based (using the new grants).
Also, still in discussions with:
Car plants etc to house their machinery at battery manufacturing sites to recycle scrap batteries.
Roll out of plants in USA/EU/Asia - in discussion with partners although that can mean anything.
Current market cap £19m.
So what's it worth? Best way to determine is profit.
The prospectus states that the Gate Fee will not always be applicable (short/medium term opportunity due to demand for a solution). Once competition starts this will drop/disappear but several years away I feel.
The expected black mass off-take figure used previously was £3500/tonne and not the current £5000-£6000 /tonne).
So, the expected gate fee is pure profit £21m approx.
The additional black-mass margin (£1500/tonne) must also be viewed as pure profit.
That's £28m from the expected £46m. And, they would expect to be profitable at £3500/tonne and no gate fee, so the profit on the £46m turnover must be higher than the £28m I've calculated.
Lets say conservatively, the profit is £30m, that would value the company at £300m based on a P/E ratio of 10 which is low for a growth company. And that excludes ALL other opportunities.
However, the number of shares will be much higher as the Recyclus deal involves the issuing of another 921m shares making it 2,393m in total (that's approx 2/3 increase in share capital, or another way to look at is the new share capital will be 60% current TM1 and 40% for the additional Recyclus acquisition) - hope that makes sense.
So, based on that, the £300m is worth to 'current TM1 shareholders' £200m.
However you look at this, TM1 is seriously undervalued.
Anyone selling now IMO has absolutely no understanding of business. Zilch.
The selling was driven by Macquarie and has now completed. The permit will be issued shortly and then we'll fly.