RE: OOOh yes - there we have it - Malcy's £1.5 AGAIN28 Jan 2025 10:32
Posted on the ADVFN BB in December - even more relevant today - the valuation has got to correct at some point if they keep executing.
"New PTAL note by Zeus is available on the Research Hub. Written by someone who's just got a dictionary for Christmas, there's no new news, but instead, the thrust of it is in the first paragraph
Despite a degree of share price underperformance over the course of 2024, this has become more acute in recent weeks, with the shares falling to levels not seen since early 2022. Since that time PetroTal has consolidated and grown its Brazil export route, materially grown production, and established a strong shareholder returns programme. We believe the recent price performance is unjustified, and provides an attractive entry point based on both our NAV and peer trading multiples, and on the upcoming 2025 programme.
It changes the target price to 95p from 97p based on higher erosion control works. and concludes
Overall, it is our view that while the share performance for most of 2024 has been unjustified given the progress the company has made, recent performance has been particularly egregious, and current levels represent an attractive entry point for exposure to the work programmes, cash flows, and shareholder returns coming up in 2025."
The only slight irritation for me is the buy-backs and the continual reference to shareholder returns (via buybacks). There is no return - the buybacks are completely gobbled up with Management Share Awards with around half of them going to the CEO alone. IMO his pay is excessive and I would like to see the rest of us shareholders benefit from the buybacks.