#Abalance issued two unsatisfactory responses to concerns raised in our report.
Mgmt’s rebuttal does not deserve a response, however shareholders do. We will address every management denial, point-by-point, below. 1/
SUPPLY CHAIN & SCOPE
Despite over 20 pages and dozens more references in our reports to this effect, management claim that our concern related to supply chain forced labor is “unfounded”. It does not elaborate. 2/
Management denies that it trades with Chinese suppliers who utilize forced labor in Xinjiang. This is a bad hill to die on.
Viceroy have pulled detailed import data which highlights and names its Chinese suppliers. #Abalance cannot deny it conducts business with them. 3/
Abalance – Turning Japanese? We really don’t think so.
VSUN circumvents US duties and will be restricted for sale from 2024 in the USA. Chinese components currently sourced from forced labor trade partners.
Abalance is a Japanese corporation which purports to be a solar panel manufacturer. Approximately 90% of the company’s revenues are derived from its Vietnamese subsidiary, Vietnam Sunergy Joint Stock Corporation (VSUN) #abalance $3856 2/
VSUN faces crippling trade restrictions in the USA from next year as a pass-through Chinese supplier. It already circumvents trade duties and operates on slim margins. VSUN employees advertise circumvention of the restrictions #abalance $3856
MPW pay a 200% premium for newly built Neuropsychiatric Hospital. A 2022 property appraisal comes in 72% below capitalized investment. 1/
Viceroy’s investigations show that combined costs of the Neuropsychiatric Hospital development and appraised value of land was ~$9.1m at the date of $MPW's acquisition. MPW claim to have outlaid over $28m on the project, which has been capitalized. 2/
The current appraised value of the facility is 72% below $MPW's capitalized investment in the 2-year-old facility. 3/
$MPW purchased 3 hospitals in Colombia for a purported $135m. One hospital was badly damaged by an earthquake. The marked book value for the hospitals was about half of MPW's consideration, which the vendor did not appear to receive in full. 1/
On November 17, 2020, $MPW claims to have invested in 3 Colombian hospitals for $135m from local operator National Clinics Colombia (NCC) through an unnamed JV . The hospitals acquired were Clinica Centenario, Clinica Los Nevados and Clinica San Rafael. 2/
The ownership structure of the Colombian hospitals suggest it is owned and/or controlled by Steward and/or its executives, not by $MPW. 3/
$MPW plainly overpaid an estimated $700m for a portfolio of properties from Steward. It financed Stewards entire purchase of a larger portfolio, and extinguished the entire loan in return for a fraction of the properties. 1/
In 2017, $MPW loaned Steward $1.4b to purchase a Salt Lake City Hospital operator IASIS and their portfolio of 19 hospitals. It also made a further $100m minority interest equity contribution in the transaction. IASIS owned and operated 17 hospitals. 2/
A $700m portion of this loan was immediately extinguished in exchange for 9 properties.
The remaining $700m was a mortgage loan against 2 unnamed properties: Jordan Valley Medical Center and Davis Hospital & Medical Center. $MPW 3/
$MPW finances purchases for distressed tenants via cheap loans, then extinguishes loans *and provides additional consideration* in return for real property. 1/
In October 2016 $MPW acquired 9 Massachusetts facilities from Steward: 5 of them outright for 600m, 4 for 600m in mortgage loans and 50m in equity contributions. 2/
In Q2, Q3 and Q4 2018 $MPW extinguished the mortgages on the 4 facilities by taking ownership, along with an unnamed cash consideration . Steward’s 2018 financials show this was $42.8m. 3/