Aqui os pongo un post que Sleepless ha colgado en Yahoo, para hacer numeros y pensar un poco cual sería nuestro objetivo de recuperación para las comunes, si la propia FDIC decia que WMB valía $26,4 Billones en el momento de la intervención, no me imagino lo que podría valer realmente, las cifras que salen abajo son muy jugosas.
Washington Mutual Bank Statement of Operations, from FDIC, dated Feb. 18, 2009.
WASHINGTON MUTUAL BANK
Fund Number: 10015
Statement of Assets & Liabilities in Liquidation (unaudited)
(Rounded in Dollars)
HENDERSON, NV
Inception Date: 09/25/2008
For Period Ending: December 31, 2008
Run Date & Time: 02/18/2009 1:04:52PM
This is a three page pdf document titled "Statement of Assets & Liabilities in Liquidation". It is the FDIC's accounting of the financial state of the WMB receivership as of 12/31/08, as compared to the same at the time of WMB's seizure and sale to JPM, 09/25/08, the "inception date" of the receivership.
Yahoo doesn't allow attachments, but if you are Ghost board member you can view screenshots of pages 1 and 2 there, and also download the pdf file.
The inception date is given as 09/25/08, or in other words the date of WMB seizure. On page 1, the right hand column is titled "Inception Balance". It lists the following totals at inception:
-- total assets = $298,791,522,367
-- total liabilities = $272,361,413,177
-- total net assets = $26,430,109,191
From Note 3, page 3:
"3. Valuation of Assets/Loss Allowances: Assets of the receivership are shown at values representing cash on deposit or the book value of amounts invested; the principal balance of loans, notes, other debt instruments or receivables (note that interest on these assets is not accrued after failure but is recognized when received); the foreclosed value of real and/or personal property or the book value of assets (cost less depreciation or amortization through date of the institution's failure); and the historical cost of the net investment in subsidiaries, partnerships or joint ventures, adjusted where appropriate to reflect the receivership's portion of the underlying net earnings or losses."
The FDIC's own books show that, at the time of seizure, WMB had a book valuation of $26.4 billion.
Book value is not the same as going concern value.
Bopfan on valuation, 3/21/09:
"I have been saying for five months that this will all come down to the value of WMI's equity in the seized assets. There will be an intense battle of experts to set a value on this property which, according to WMI's last 10-Q before the seizure (6/30), set the value of WMI's interest in those assets at about $25 billion.
That's book value, only: it is very likely that if WMI had sold (i.e., liquidated) those assets it would have got several times that figure. As I have been saying for months WMI would be entitled to a bare minimum of 1x book value, and very likely several times that. I also reassert my view that the court may determine that some other valuation method (such as a perpetuity model) -- which might yield a figure higher than whatever is the standard market multiple for sale of a bank (another poster suggested some months ago a multiple of 1.5-2.5x -- would be $37.5 - $62.5 billion) would be more appropriate."