Roger Montgomery of Clime Capital has sold all position on CCP at price between
93c and $1 on 14 Feb, 3 days after the profit downgrade.
For anyone interested in his reasoning here is CAM announcement today.
Cheers for that, he got out a lot earlier than I thought.
Though as it is only a very small portion of my portfolio, I will continue to hold this one for at least a couple years!
Bit of contrarian investment is never a bad thing!
I'm not surprised at all. If you'd just met with management who told you while looking in the eye "everything's fine" and then 3 weeks later come out with a second profit downgrade, would you have any faith in them to execute a re-structure and let you know candidly how it was going? Better to cut your losses and redeploy the cash elsewhere. Plenty of other opportunities for finding value in a market like this.
Maybe they pestering the management too much for such a small stake that doesn't even register on the substantial share holder list so they give them a bit of walk down the garden
The whole of the bank loan facility of $144.6M has an expiration date of 3 January 2009. That now shifts the liability from Non-Current to Current. With the share price collapse and the problems in credit markets at present, one would now think that CCP will have a major hurdle in re-financing this facility when it falls due. If covenants are broken in the meantime, then this could bring forward this problem.
My calculations on the latest figures released reveal a slide in revenue collection at the rate of 36.5% pa whilst available for sale financial assets are growing at the rate of 33.3% pa. This is a real crunch.
CCP intends to cut back on ledger acquisitions in order to handle the cashflow problem. This whole affair is going from bad to worse. Expect more bad news, especially when the $5M review gets underway!
On the 27th February “Veduta Estates” and “Vahivi P/L” of Northbridge, NSW bought a total of 2,010,014 plus 313,139 (+2,323,153) shares in CCP. This makes the transactions total about $1.5M. The 2007 annual report shows Veduta having 2M shares, so this new purchase gives them a total of about 4.3M and thus a 10% stake in the company (current shares on issue are about 43.3M).
Veduta Estates have previously had large interests in CCP. In early 2005 they had 33% of the issued shares which were subsequently reduced to 23% and then 13% in late 2005.
The “Sole Proprietor” of these two companies (Veduta Estates and Vahivi) is a Mr Henry Calleia. Now Mr Simon Calleia is currently a director of CCP and was previously managing director of CCP. Presumably Henry Calleia is a close rlation of Simon?
Conclusion is that Mr Calleia is an astute purchaser with an intimate knowledge of the company and is risking his own capital to buy shares at a time when other investors with less knowledge are abandoning it.
This is not a time to give up hope!
Nevetheless, the notes provided by meglas are useful and should be kept in mind.
CCP intends to cut back on ledger acquisitions in order to handle the cashflow problem. This whole affair is going from bad to worse. Expect more bad news, especially when the $5M review gets underway!
Yeah it's really hard to envisage any good news coming from these guys in the short to medium term. We've had two rapid downgrades in succession, what is the likelihood of any positive news coming out of their review? Will things magically appear to be better than they were? A purchase of CCP currently has more to do with speculating than investing.
That said, battiwallah makes an interesting observation about the insider buying of Mr Calleia. The so-called smart money may be getting in.
And Geoff Lucas in outta there. Hard to tell if that's a positive or negative at this stage. Looks like we'll have to wait until the end of March.
Maybe it's a good thing, bring back Simon Calleia, don't know why he hand over the job to Lucas a couple years ago got to find out.
Simon is doing a good job up until then, I'm not sure who else apart from Lucas lead alot of people down the garden path about CCP earning, so maybe some of these guys need to go too.
Date: 15/2/2008
Author: Brendan Swift; Peter Wells
Source: The Australian Financial Review --- Page: 70
A profit warning by Australian-listed debt collection agency Credit Corp Grouphas led to a share price decline. On 11 February 2008, it closed $A3.08 lower atjust $A0.91, with immediate unfortunate consequences for CEO Geoff Lucas. Thedrop in value triggered a margin call, and he was forced to divest 235,000 ofhis total holding of 655,000 shares in Credit Corp. The entity is looking toconduct a review of both board members and management, and new directors orexecutives could be appointed soon. Similar margin calls for leading personnelhad recently also affected MFS Limited and Allco Finance Group
Up 25% because the managing director resigned?
This market is insane!
SDG is the weirdest of the lot!
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