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Sudden bounce!!
This has been very flat during all the recent termoil.
It is said to be in play. This is old news.
Todays move is dramatic compaired to very recent flatness between 38c and 39.5c
Wot? Only a 1.5 cent increase to a high of 41 cents?
Was down 17% or so at one point.
Couldn't help myself!
So I did!
Selling does seem a bit overdone... COK near it's 52 week lows, lots of buying in at 26-27c. It managed to close at 28c on Tuesday. Don't think it'll stay at this price for too much longer?
According to the age:
Failed equity bid ruffles Cockatoo
Author: PADDY MANNING
Date: 24/04/2012
Words: 273
Publication: The Age
Section: Business
Page: 4
COCKATOO Coal will need to raise fresh equity by the end of the year to develop its mining projects, after Korean shareholder SK Networks withdrew from a planned $313 million placement.
The placement would have lifted SK's stake in Cockatoo from 5.5 per cent to 40 per cent but, at 53.5? a share, was priced at a steep premium to the market. Cockatoo shares dropped 2.5? or 7.25 per cent to 34? yesterday, compounding heavy falls since February.
Cockatoo is expanding its producing Baralaba mine in the Bowen Basin, and has a number of other Surat Basin development projects to fund, including Woori. Cockatoo sold 49 per cent of Woori to a subsidiary of Japan's Mitsui Coal in March for $37.3 million.
Asian utilities and steel mills own 32 per cent of Cockatoo including POSCO (13.3 per cent), SK, Kores (4.1 per cent), Indonesia's Harum Energy (4.1 per cent), Korea East-West Power (2.9 per cent) and Kepco (2 per cent).
Wilson HTM analyst Andrew Pedler said these shareholders were "genuinely committed" to Cockatoo and its projects and said the company had a "reasonable prospect" of raising equity as it was in a better position than other emerging coal producers without cashflow.
Cockatoo said SK cited "prioritisation of investment opportunities . . . and the ongoing uncertainty in global markets".
Mr Pedler said Cockatoo would need to raise "less than half" the amount of equity SK was to have contributed.
CLSA analyst James Stewart said the announcement was negative for Cockatoo, which could move to sell down Baralaba, expected to produce 750,000 tonnes of PCI coal with plans to expand that to 3.5 million tonnes by 2014. He said it was most likely an Asian steel mill would inject capital and secure offtake from Baralaba.
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