I always find it quite amusing that a quality stock like New Hope gets barely any interest from ASF'ers. If people missed the announcement yesterday, let me spell it out for you again
current stock price : $5.80
paying a fully franked dividend (goes ex-dividend mid October) - about 77c
huuuuuge yield
with about 3 weeks before it goes ex-div we should see a nice run in the share price
apart from the meaty dividend - the company has great management, they continue to expand their operations and their profits -
I have found an interesting yield play with New Hope Corporation (NHC). due to the sale of the Saraji Coal project for 2.45 billion. This company is cashed up and at todays price is paying a 13.3 % special dividend in a one off payment on the 10th of November. NHC doesnt go ex-div until 20th October. Cannot understand with share price has not run up since this information was released to the market. Just wondering what your panel thought of this play?
Could someone perhaps speculate on why one director would sell 500,000 shares & another double his position? Interested in opinions on those kinds of circumstances.Perhaps to exercise his options rights?
As stated above the market was already aware of this d/e payment and the stock has had a great run in since Feb. The annoucement was not a surprise and was already priced into the share price.
There is a very real chance that NHC could drop by more then the 77.25c of the d/e payment come ex d/e day. This will imo depend on the market in general, if we see continued weakness in the general market we could see a fairly big drop on ex d/e day.
I wouldn't be buying this stock purely for d/e yield at this time as imo it is a bit too late for that play. The time to buy for the d/e was when the market was first made aware of the possiblity of a special d/e payment.
It's funny how many people go for yield when what really happens in this instance is they give you a bit of cash back on your purchase price.
I wonder if one of the reasons that the fall is greater on ex-div day because some lazy traders forget to move their stop loss... big div also tend to destroy chart patterns which make technical traders more hesitate to buy? Dunno... pure speculation.
Some of your speculation could be right. I bought on the breakout in week 38, purely technicals, now price has crashed through all kinds of stoplosses, trailing stops etc. conceivable.
New Hope unveils coal to liquids project
September 14, 2010 - 1:29PM
AAP
New Hope Corporation Ltd is hoping to eventually produce up to 50,000 barrels of synthetic oil per day, after buying a 25 per cent stake in technology to liquefy coal.
New Hope has undertaken a deal with Canadian firm Quantex Research Corporation to commercialise the technology, which Quantex acquired with a licence from West Virginia University in the United States.
Under the deal, New Hope will have a 25-year exclusive worldwide licence for the technology, which allows coal to be converted into synthetic crude oil.
The conversion process is cheaper than other systems and does not produce any carbon dioxide, New Hope managing director Robert Neale told AAP.
"Our process is quite different because we don't gasify the coal at all, we dissolve it," Mr Neale said.
"We dissolve the coal under very moderate conditions, without extremes in temperature or pressure, and we create a product called pitch," he said.
Mr Neale said the pitch can be refined into oil, with high-grade coke as a byproduct.
I see NHC will now own NEC.. great value here and you can read more about this value on the NEC announcements... I was at work today and read that the toowoomba rail line will now reopen at the end of this month and that's 3 months a head of schedule should pump the price a bit I'd say...Any thoughts on NHC's 2 mines on the toowoomba line, their port in Brisbane, their cash reserves or NEC takeover? Sounds good to me and just checked the SP and it's up a few % today.. highly doubt this is due to the market rebounding from yesterday's hammering..
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