RE: The market cap of a company?8 Aug 2021 13:35
Discussing market cap reminded me of an interesting podcast back in September last year when Eric Sprott discussed it in relation to comments about the Greatland Gold share price. Here's part of the transcript:
Craig: Yeah, absolutely. And again, someone like Buffett giving that kind of tacit approval should open a few eyes. That's for sure. Eric, before we get into some of the individual stocks, I thought this was a fun question. Because this is gonna be helpful, hopefully going forward for just about everybody. A gentleman wrote in and said he's got about like a 25-bagger in something called Greatland Gold. And I was sitting here thinking, as you were speaking, I've got one similar. You had told us all, geez, two, three years ago about something called De Grey Mining down in Australia. And that thing's gone from like five cents to $1. And so you get these 20-baggers and 25-baggers, however you wanna put it. The question was, what is a proper sell signal for something like that? Is it the market cap reaches a certain level? Is it value the metal in the ground at a certain level? I mean, because hopefully this is a problem all of us are gonna have. We gotta figure out what to do when prices get up that high?
Eric: Yeah. Well, let me assure the listeners it's not market cap, okay. I mean, I can't tell you the number of times I've bought something very, very well. For example, when I bought Goldcorp at, probably $5 a share back in 2000, something like that. And I probably sold it when its market cap got to be $700 million, and it went through, I think, $15 billion. So don't use the fact that something's gone up a lot as a reason to sell it. It's got to do with relative value. Where else can I put the money, based on what I know today about company X, and whether it's ounces in the ground, whether it's gonna be future production, future cash flows, future dividends, something, and compare it to other opportunities.
https://www.sprottmoney.com/blog/What-Will-Work-in-the-Post-Covid-Economy-Hint-Gold-and-Silver-Weekly-Wrap-Up-Sep-18-2020