The market doesn't KNOW if they're close to sales yet - that's only impatience in the market.idribble said:The market doesn't agree that NEO are getting close to sales. In fact the market seems to be sayiong the exact opposite.
mime said:The stock is slowly moving up. Fingers crossed
Doc j - In the interests of fair play and not wanting mis-information quoted, I emailed your post to Anthony Kain this morning, and received a reply early this afternoon.doctorj said:A couple of people have messaged me about NEO in the past few days, I thought it'd be good to post a couple of quick points here.
- At the cash burn rate as per their last quarterly, they were going to run out of cash some time this quarter. They've sinced raised $1.2mill @ 3.5cps which should see them most of the way through next quarter.
- NEOO expires on 16.2.05 with an exercise price of 5cps. The 280mill odd options at this price would see NEO with $14mill to play with.
- NEO closed today 4.4cps ie out of the money. Either way, NEO needs a placement to fund its operations. Options exercised at 5cps is preferable to further placements at 3.5cps for current holders - less dilution.
- Between 2-13 and 3-13, JackHammer is producing at 2.9mmcf/d. Assuming that gas prices remain above USD$14 (unlikely), they'll nett USD$12.50 per mcf or there abouts once they get the pipeline. NEO has a 37.5% share, which works out to be just under USD$5mill per year to NEO or an EPS of only about 0.6cps (fully diluted).
- Assuming a P/E of 8 (about what these Junior Oilers like to sit on), this puts NEO on a valuation of about 4.8cps. Remember, this is assuming that gas prices remain at record highs for the foreseeable future.
- NEO and their partners don't plan to complete the pipe required to begin selling the gas until they've proved up the field. At the moment, these two producing wells are being burnt off.
- Given that they will not complete the pipeline required to make money for a while yet, option holders are facing the inevitability of time. NEOO should continue to be sold down as we near expiry.
- Even if NEO do pull something from their nether regions and get the share price above 5cps before expiry (perhaps they connect the pipe early or get another well producing at 1.5mmcfd) expect the share price to suffer from a horrible overhang. They are attempting to increase their shares on issue by more than 50%. People will find they have over extended themselves and will sell FPO's to fund their exercise.
In short, the next 3 months or so will not be pretty for NEO. Even in the best case scenario and they get the sp above 5cps and the majority of people exercise their options, I wouldn't expect the share price to get too far away from 5cps for a month or so after the expiry (enough time for people to rebalance their portfolio or sell to enter better trading stocks in a reasonably orderly fashion). NEOO is going to get pretty ugly soon. This may also drag down the FPOs. In short, if you like the look of Jack Hammer, look at OPL which offers far stronger cash backing and diversification without the option overhang. Failing that, wait till after feb 16th where its likely that even if 'good things' happen, the share price will be under valued anyway.
In the slew of annoucements I read last night prior to the post, I must have missed they had been shut in. Either way, the pipeline is not complete, they're not selling gas and simply can't sell gas until the pipeline is complete. Whether its being burnt or has been shut in, isn't quite the point.The most blatant mistake among many is that we are burning off 2-13 and 3-13 gas now after we have repeatedly told the market we have shut these wells awaiting connection to the pipeline which we will be doing asap.
I'm not sure where he took the 'better leverage' part from. There is no doubt that NEO, with 37.5% of the project and a 30mill market cap has better leverage to success than OPL with a $120mill market cap. My point was that OPL is involved in more projects, has better cash backing and doesn't have to go through a large option expiry (ie. capital raising) which in my experience tends to depress the share price for a period post-expiry.If this person thinks OPL gives better leverage to Jack Hamar than NEO with current prices I disagree
doc - I'm quietly confident that we'll have great things happening before year end - and hopefully enough to get the oppies into the money.doctorj said:I'm still not sure. Acquiring more land is great news on face value, but my main concern remains - what is going to happen between now and expiry. I still believe the options are going to get a little messy.
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