Stock price when the opinion was issued
This has been a pack of cards falling through. There is kind of an option value building into this company because of its whole macroeconomic play with its geographic location close to some of the basins in India. Fundamentally the balance sheet looks really stretched. They would need a lot of help on the capital markets side in terms of financing alternatives. Trades at a Price to Book of about 6 times.
He would stay away from this. Highly speculative because there is so much debt. There is talk that after the election in India, there will be a price increase in the gas that this company and their partner get out of the D6 block. Not sure that will happen. If they don’t get that price increase, this equity will probably not be around in 2 years.