3mos is basically about as fast as you can ram one through...
...but the Ack SPAC is whale hunting and whatever they hope to buy would be a massive transaction ($4bn in trust, plus a big committed PIPE).
Complexity + size = increased time to close.
Today is Mar 5. These options expire in mid-June.
unless Ackman announces a deal in the next 3 weeks, I think it's basically impossible for him to close this transaction before these options expire...
....meaning you get paid 80c (against whatever you have to put up to sell the put, at my broker, ~$2/share), to commit to get long $20 worth of cash at $20.
This is a 40% RoIC for 3.5mos work. With very little risk (beyond mark to market on the puts).
Keep in mind also that as the market goes lower/gets wobbly the odds of doing a deal GO DOWN, not up. So the value of this put should be going down...
The put leg here is MASSIVELY misunderstood and misplaced. Below $20/share in the next few months you're shorting a cash box...
...who wouldn't mind getting long a bunch of cash and then just redeem?
You get paid 40% ROIC to do this. Yes its not scalable. Yes you need to wear mark-to-market. Yes this is options to if you didn't understand even a word of this thread, its NOT FOR YOU.
DYODD always...
...but if none of that applies, this seems highly compelling and (to me) the best risk-adjusted way to play the current SPAC meltdown.
Let Ack's cash box pay you 40% ROICs in a few months. Then go on summer vacay w the proceeds before he even announces a deal ππ
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Been a while since I did a deep dive thread so let's do one now. I've mentioned many times that π¦πΊπ¦ small caps is like the land that time forgot when it comes to deep value...that is evidently true here as well. Note that I am basically sized out by most of these things now...
...and while I do own a few mm shares here it is not at all a meaningful position for me given illiquidity/size of my account.
Having said that if I were managing what I managed 4-5yrs ago I would be all over this as it seems a v positively advantaged bet...let me explain...
Strata Investment Holdings $SRT.AX is a hodge-podge collection of listed and unlisted mining shitcos (I say that with love) and a jewel royalty over $SFR.AX Sandfire's tenements in the Kalahari Copper Belt (KCB). This deck is a bit old but gives the gist:
Ok the people have spoken. Let's do this: Sierra Rutile, $SRX.AX, aka 'The Fumble in the Jungle' ππ
this will be long, but not exhaustive. pls relisten to @moneyofminepod episodes where Travis did a no of good breakdowns. I will simply jump in a focus on the latest...
also - this is SUPER BIG BOY PANTS territory. I have a position - sized like play money for me. My cost basis is 11, 11.5c more or less. i dont think it goes to zero - but that outcome is still possible here...so please, DYODD and always practice safe stonks ππ
OK - $SRX.AX is a tiny Aussie listed, Sierra Leone-based, busted rutile mining shitco w/ one operating rutile mine ('Area 1'), 3yrs of life left, and one big dev project ('Sembehun'), enough to extend mine life >10yrs at apparently strong ly positive economics (tbd)...
Some of the key things I try to DD beyond the pure legal docs etc are things like jurisdiction (good? bad? middling?); operating asset (or not); and then governing law/treaty status.
Ignoring the quantum of the claim here totally - this is attractive in terms of the above ππ
1) Jurisdiction: Slovenia. EU member. They tend to pay (or settle) their ICSID cases (as @kingfishcap alluded to). Appear to be quite focused on maintaining rep as good place to do business.
2) Operating asset: the oil field that was effectively expropriated was operating...
Brief update on EML Payments $EML.AX. Stock px is drifting lower as 1) legacy holders (First Sentier etc) continue to sell (imo) into news vacuum and 2) mkt is increasingly skeptical PCSIL can ever be jettisoned. Think this is totally wrong for reasons outlined previously...
what exactly is the mkt pricing in at 75c? Something like this:
- zero value for Sentenial (still under sales process, prob sold by Jun'24 imo, anything >$50mm positive at this point)
- $50mm in remediation/addntl exit costs at PCSIL (2.5yrs of current burn!)
- ZERO value for the rest of PFS UK - ie the non-PCSIL part of PFS, that is being kept - that imo is doing >$20mm EBITDA run-rate today
- cutting core biz multiple to 7x (from 8.8x blended) when majority is high value gifting biz that should be worth >10x to any acquirer
Carnarvon $CVN.AX full board coup. Stock is v interesting here imo. Prev mgmt has been unceremoniously turfed, two largest s/holders (Nero+Collins St) now firmly in control.
Why is this interesting at 18c?
1) Defrays risk of value-destroying acquisition. $CVN.AX has 15-16.5c of adjusted net cash per share (if you discount the capex $ from CPC at some rate), the key risk was prev mgmt had articulated a desire to buy something. See here for eg: