Stock price when the opinion was issued
Had owned this years ago, but had his head handed to him on a platter. This was perceived to be a gem of a company with a great, great future, but unfortunately they didn’t have revenues. They have a lot of financial backing with the Québec government behind them. They would have to be further along in their process for him to be interested. At some point this could be a good play, but the question is, when is a good time to get in. He is not interested.
Had owned this 7-8 years ago and it was a major lesson. They had talked about coming into production a few years ago, and didn’t quite make it. Then they went through massive dilutions, and he lost a lot of money. He now doesn’t buy into any company that doesn’t have revenues. Doesn’t follow this closely anymore.
It is the usual issue with any new mine. Let’s see how the ramp-up goes. There are always issues. He always likes to discount things at least 25%. It is going to take longer and cost you more and take longer to finally get to economic production, and he assumes this will be no different. Thinks the stock is sort of pricing in that expectation.
Good momentum characteristics. He exited late last year. They are one of the few diamond mines. It is a quality cyclical stock. They have chunky cash flow because of the way they sell diamonds at auctions.