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am starting to think it may be a good one to jump back into!!!good way to make some lost money in the near future
Big jump today from intraday lows. Volume is very low though, anyone know what's up in the backgroun ?
Hasn't Allco put provisions away for these note interest? and how do you work out the interest rate for them? It is based on face value right? that means interest on $100, so an interest rate of 5.11% would be way below average i thought?
Thanks
Marc
AFGHA
These are unsecured floating notes with a maturity date of Nov 2017 and currently trading at around $12.50 on very small volume. The company historically has made 2 payments a year in Nov and May. Nov 07 payment was $4.33 and May 08 was 463.97.
The next payment is $5.11 (40% yield) with an ex date of 31 Oct 08 and a payment date of 17 Nov 08.
There are 3.5mil outstanding currently, so the total payable by the company is approx $18 mil.
Given the state of the Allco, the 2 biggest risks to these notes are:
1) the company goes broke, in which case the notes will most likely be worthless.
2) The company announces that it is not going to make the next interest payment. In which case the price of the notes will fall heavily.
Obviously, if the company stays afloat and continues to make payments, buyers will get 80% of their money back by May next year and from Nov 09, will be free carried for further payments until 2017.
Alternatively, some may look to buy now and sell into any increase in price just before the ex date.
It would be prudent to read up on the terms of issue prior to buying in.
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