Thought of the day: Predicting cashflow generation 3-4 years out is a huge value add when selecting fresh asymmetric themes. For #commodities one is generally predicting spot price reversion to the mean. Entry cap should be <1x CF 3yrs out, our best performers <0.2x.
Examples:
$IREN entry cap <$80m .....peak CF > $250m
$BTU < $110m.....peak CF > $1.5bn
$RIG < $400m....peak CF > $2bn
$CKA < $20m....>$400m
$AEE < $15m.....>$250m
$WKT < $60m....>$120m
The fresh asymmetric themes return matrix over 5 years:
Thought of the day: Trolling is generally jealousy based, particularly when it focus' on one of the best performers in a sector Vs the troller's stock selections. They hate it when you continue to hold the stock, in fact net buyer. We power ahead unfazed given the higher ground.
I'm sorry if owning the stocks we have a thesis for is not the appropriate action, we see it as backing our view, putting our wallet with our mouth and having skin in the game. We don't charge for pointing out compelling cycle bottoms as the positions are enough reward.
Realities with 75% of nano cap #gold explorers, or potential pre-production plays:
- lifestyle operations for the CEO/chairman
- burning matches, dilution can be 95% prior to achieving much
- timeframes of 1 year become 4 rather quickly
- require huge margin of safety for entry
What sort of margin of safety do we hear you ask?
- Cap < 5% NPV < 30% resource
- Cap < 25% of optimized annual cashflow
- IRR > 100% at $2500 spot
- Insider ownership > 20%
- Independent due diligence on Financing to verify DFS
- Cap/oz < $4
Even with all the above 40% will likely drop over.
Hence ensure one doesn't over pay and have a spread of 5 holdings in the theme.
Thought of the day: Recency bias from #commodity peak when everything in the rear vision mirror looks "solid" is an optical illusion, around the bend a cliff is coming into sight a "recession", often stockprices drop 75% plus. Demand can get slaughtered at the margin.
#lithium & #coal are great case studies for those of our followers who don't understand nothing is rare at 80% cash margins and 20% cost.
$SBER up 19x if depositary receipts were purchased <50c and converted plus incoming 200% dividend yield. A little outperformance over 12 months Vs peers group in Europe & US. Another successful #asymmetric theme in play.
Who would have thought the globally best investment theme over the last 12 months would be #Russianstocks (purchased in crashed DRs) that 83% of the world pop didn't sanction?
Note the buy valuations (using 3yr trailing pre-war averages):
Dividend yields > 100%
PE < 0.7x
Entry on these sorts of multiples with future growth applied has always provided 10-20x returns over 5 years on cycle bottom deployment for a theme.