The BOD of the new co. will have the authority to issue 5,000,000 preferred shares with an unknown face value and dividend. I'm thinking that this offering will be used to raise capital. Now just think about this for a minute. A $1,000 FV on 5,000,000 preferred shares equals a capital raise of $5 billion. Now the new companies book value is approx. $5.2 billion. And now more doors are unlocked...
Leed bien esto:
5B in capital raised less 7% is still 4.65B after one year. The key is being able to use the 5B to generate profits greater than the 350m in annual interest. If you buy company X with the 5B and that company is making 600m in annual profits, you have a net gain of 250m. If you gave company X half of the outstanding shares (another 200m), you still have the 5B in cash and the 5B other company making 250m in profits (after deducting preferred holders interest.) Now, you take your 10B company with 400m shares outstanding and 5B in preferreds outstanding and buy 5B company Y with 3B in cash and issue 80m more shares taking total to 480m outstanding. Now, you have a company worth 15B less the 3B cash or 12B in value (with 5B in preferreds outstanding). If company Y is making 750m in annual profits, you now have a company generating 1B in annual profits (tax free thanks to NOLs). That would equate to a little over $2 per share with 480m shares outstanding and I am already deducting the annual interest for the preferred holders at 350m per year.
PE of 10 equates to a stock at $20 per share and a company with net worth of 12B with 5B in preferreds and no debt (assuming that the companies bought were debt free.)
Hopefully, this gives you an idea of how the equity raise through preferreds could make a significant difference to Newco. If it took 5 years to accomplish the above, then I would be more than happy to wait. That provides a recovery of 40% for old preferred holders or $400 for each P. Enjoy the ride.
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As some have theorized.....that the HFs are already the major owners of the equities for the WMI Holdings subsequent to their converted holdings of oldWMI then it would be quite simple for them to capitalize WMI Holdings Corp with the purchasing of the 5mil prefers at a $1k face value thereby allowing them to increase the new company's capitalization to the $5.2bil level making the common share value worth move up accordingly..... This is all very very curious......since it seems it was only at the last minute that this measure was added in WMI Holdings being able to offer the 5mil in prefers .....that news was disclosed at the same time that it was announced that the common equity outstanding amount was raised from the initial 200mil shares to now 500million...... And there is a reason behind all this.....which is known by the insiders ......leaving us to sit and guess......but seems very possible.....
My pessimism now .....starting to roll over to cautiously optimistic..... and will provide us with some positive in all the negatives that we have incurred....
Now, BODs of WMI Holdings Corp...needs to provide a PR in the next few weeks to see if this thinking is correct or not.......
The 5mil prefers did catch my attention couple of weeks ago.....I just could not put the picture together like kyle has
Again, this is totally hypothetical, but just there to give you an idea of what may be possible. Even if this only resulted in 500m in profits, you are still looking at a significant PPS for Newco shares that is more than most can foresee at this point in time.
I primarily held because I was sure that the SNHs had a big plan to make use of the NOLs and create a super-sized tax free entity.
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