Notes on BRH - Seller out?18 Sep 2017 12:24
Mcap @ ~18p is ~£4.8m
BRH has no debt
Is funded, which means no placing coming!
Trevor Brown - He's done it once again (or is clearly in the process of now)
Current valuation @ < than £8m is ridiculous:
Cash @ bank was £1.4m end of March 2017
Current cash pos. Should be circa £1.65m as of September 2017 thanks 2 net profit of ~£500k/annum from its fund management business (see notes*)
Portfolio valuation is just under £1m however, 3 main investments are at book cost + most legacy investments written off. This has now been proven by the pre book Kirstall raise which would give it a value of over £5m. alone, which means £2.4m owned by BRH for their 43% - so Kirkstall alone dwarfs the < than £1m PF in book value
Each of the 3 main investments could get to £20m+ valuations by themselves in relatively short order, Kirstall looks like it is well on its way!
What's more, 2 of the legacy investments have been sold at near 10x book costs in the last 2 years (Kirkstall ~ x9)
My PF estimate is circa £5m for the full BRH portfolio (this could still go up massively short term)
+£1.6m
+£500k/annum at a PE ratio of 4 =£2m
+listing & board value, say £400k
Mcap should be ~£9m with lots of catalysts coming & currently undervalued by around 50%
Main short term catalysts are:
1. Confirmation of the Kirkstall raise
2. News on Giro
3. General update
and you can never write off another potential legacy sale which could land anytime as well.
No sells today, would indicate the seller(s) may be out and the SP can finally move up another gear.
#BRH Fund Management business:
From http://www.braveheartgroup.co.uk/what-we-do/fund-management
Braveheart Investment Group plc has a number of funds under management with the management function typically being undertaken by its subsidiary companies: Viking Fund Managers ('VFM') manages the £48m Finance Yorkshire Equity Fund, which invests in SMEs across the Yorkshire and Humberside regions. As well as the equity fund VFM manages the £5m Viking Growth Fund investing in early stage technology companies and the £1m Viking Loan Fund which provides SMEs with unsecured loans for working capital across the same regions.
Strathtay Ventures manages the £10m Lachesis Fund, which supports seed stage technology investments for eight universities across the East Midlands region.