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10.28
Sucessfully IPO Old Line Commodities Help Stock Market Rally
Written By mine on Selasa, 05 Juli 2011 | 10.28
The most successful IPOs from the fourth quarter were primarily old-line commodities businesses sold by governments rather than venture capitalists. More recently, Internet companies have garnered the most attention in equity capital markets. LinkedIn Corp. shares doubled on May 19, their first day of trading.
A total of $127 billion was raised globally in IPOs in the fourth quarter, more than in all of 2009, helped by a stock market rally that lifted the MSCI World Index as much as 86 percent above its March 2009 low.
The third-best performer, after Coal India, was Malaysia?s Petronas Chemicals Group Bhd. (PCHEM), which was spun off by the state- owned oil exploration and production company. Its shares gained 39 percent through May. In fourth place, Australia?s QR National Ltd. (QRN), a coal-train operator that was sold by the Queensland state government, returned 35 percent.
Money manager William Fries went to India in the summer of 2010 in search of investments for his Thornburg International Value Fund. Visiting companies in Mumbai and Delhi, he found they kept diesel backup generators on hand for the power interruptions that are common as the country struggles with an inadequate electricity supply.
That led Fries, four months later, to buy shares in the $3.5 billion initial public offering of Coal India Ltd. (COAL), the state-owned coal producer. He reasoned that sales of India?s main power-plant fuel would grow as more generation is added, helping the company?s earnings.
The bet has paid off. Coal India shares soared 67 percent through May 31 from their price in the IPO on Oct. 25. That?s the best performance for any initial share sale that raised $1 billion or more in the fourth quarter of 2010, the busiest quarter ever for new share issuance.
Returns were positive for 11 of the 14 sales in this ranking, Bloomberg Markets magazine reports in its August issue. The average gain was 15 percent.
Fries, a managing director at Thornburg Investment Management Inc. in Santa Fe, New Mexico, continued buying Coal India as the shares climbed after the IPO. ?The demand for their product is going to be there,? he says. ?India has a big shortage of electricity, and they?re going to be building lots of power plants over the next decade.?
A total of $127 billion was raised globally in IPOs in the fourth quarter, more than in all of 2009, helped by a stock market rally that lifted the MSCI World Index as much as 86 percent above its March 2009 low.
The third-best performer, after Coal India, was Malaysia?s Petronas Chemicals Group Bhd. (PCHEM), which was spun off by the state- owned oil exploration and production company. Its shares gained 39 percent through May. In fourth place, Australia?s QR National Ltd. (QRN), a coal-train operator that was sold by the Queensland state government, returned 35 percent.
Money manager William Fries went to India in the summer of 2010 in search of investments for his Thornburg International Value Fund. Visiting companies in Mumbai and Delhi, he found they kept diesel backup generators on hand for the power interruptions that are common as the country struggles with an inadequate electricity supply.
That led Fries, four months later, to buy shares in the $3.5 billion initial public offering of Coal India Ltd. (COAL), the state-owned coal producer. He reasoned that sales of India?s main power-plant fuel would grow as more generation is added, helping the company?s earnings.
The bet has paid off. Coal India shares soared 67 percent through May 31 from their price in the IPO on Oct. 25. That?s the best performance for any initial share sale that raised $1 billion or more in the fourth quarter of 2010, the busiest quarter ever for new share issuance.
Returns were positive for 11 of the 14 sales in this ranking, Bloomberg Markets magazine reports in its August issue. The average gain was 15 percent.
Fries, a managing director at Thornburg Investment Management Inc. in Santa Fe, New Mexico, continued buying Coal India as the shares climbed after the IPO. ?The demand for their product is going to be there,? he says. ?India has a big shortage of electricity, and they?re going to be building lots of power plants over the next decade.?
10.47
India Coal Import Increase China South Africa and Japan Down Asia Purchases Coal
Written By mine on Selasa, 19 Oktober 2010 | 10.47
Coal commodity market - India purchases in the first nine months of this year from South Africa rose 16 percent to 15.2 million tons from a year-earlier period, mjunction said. Chinese imports climbed to 4.8 million tons through September as lower freight rates boosted shipments, compared with 1.52 million tons it imported for the entire 2009.
South African coal exports to China plunged in September while shipments to India increased from a month earlier. The Baltic Dry Index, the main measure of shipping costs for commodities, has declined 14 percent this year, reducing costs to send coal and iron ore to China and India from Africa.
Asia?s coal purchases from South Africa fell 26 percent to 3.32 million tons in September from August because of a decline in Chinese and Japanese purchases while European imports rose 60 percent to more than 1 million tons led by France and Italy. Purchases by Asia until September was about 32 million tons and Europe?s imports were 6.8 million.
South African coal exports to China plunged in September while shipments to India increased from a month earlier. The Baltic Dry Index, the main measure of shipping costs for commodities, has declined 14 percent this year, reducing costs to send coal and iron ore to China and India from Africa.
Asia?s coal purchases from South Africa fell 26 percent to 3.32 million tons in September from August because of a decline in Chinese and Japanese purchases while European imports rose 60 percent to more than 1 million tons led by France and Italy. Purchases by Asia until September was about 32 million tons and Europe?s imports were 6.8 million.
08.01
Australia Coal Improving Global Market India Interest Coal Asset
Written By mine on Rabu, 22 September 2010 | 08.01
Australian coal companies are takeover targets amid improving global markets and despite the bulk commodity being included in the federal government's planned new mining tax. Bowen Energy is yet to respond to Bhushan's offer. Brisbane-based Bowen Energy is also searching for uranium in Qld and in far north Western Australia. On Wednesday, Bowen Energy's largest shareholder Bhushan said it had made an unconditional 10 cents cash per share on-market takeover bid for the exploration minnow, which is exploring the Qld basin after which it is named.
Bhushan is listed on India's Bombay and National stock exchanges and has a market capitalisation of about $500 million. Bhushan said the cash offer would commence on October 7 and end a month later, but may be extended. Other Indian firms have joined entities from China, the US, Korea and Thailand in the hunt for Australian coal assets.
Bhushan said its offer represented a 79 per cent premium to Bowen's closing share price of 5.6 cents on Monday.
"The offer price is well above the preferred value of the shares (five cents per share) determined by Deloitte Corporate Finance Pty Ltd, the independent experts engaged by the company in October 2009," Bhushan said in its bidder's statement on Wednesday.
"The offer price represents a generous premium, having regard not only to the company's share price and preferred value, but also to the fact that Bhushan already owns 59.64 per cent of the company.
"The company (Bowen) owns coal exploration tenements and represents a risky investment."
Bhushan said it would de-list Bowen from the Australian stock exchange and continue the target's exploration activities if its bid was successful.
These include India's Adani Enterprises, which last month agreed to buy one of Linc Energy Ltd's non-core coal tenements in Queensland for $3 billion.
This has been the largest single investment by an Indian firm in Australia, Linc said at the time, according to Linc which said the companies could work cooperatively on underground coal gasification projects in the future.
New Delhi-based Jindal Steel & Power Ltd earlier this year failed to take over Rocklands Richfield Ltd, which is exploring for coal in Qld's Bowen Basin.
Jindal was vying with China's Meijin Energy Group to take over Rocklands, but wound up with a stake in the target, a seat on its board and a joint venture over three coal projects including a novel proposal to manufacture house bricks from coal waste.
Bowen's shares closed up 4.9 cents, or 87.5 per cent, at 10.5 cents - eclipsing the offer price and suggesting the market expects a higher bid, although the share trading was on low volumes.
"After completion of the acquisition of the company, Bhushan will conduct a review of the activities, assets and employees of the company in light of the information then available to it," Bhushan said.
Bhushan is listed on India's Bombay and National stock exchanges and has a market capitalisation of about $500 million. Bhushan said the cash offer would commence on October 7 and end a month later, but may be extended. Other Indian firms have joined entities from China, the US, Korea and Thailand in the hunt for Australian coal assets.
Bhushan said its offer represented a 79 per cent premium to Bowen's closing share price of 5.6 cents on Monday.
"The offer price is well above the preferred value of the shares (five cents per share) determined by Deloitte Corporate Finance Pty Ltd, the independent experts engaged by the company in October 2009," Bhushan said in its bidder's statement on Wednesday.
"The offer price represents a generous premium, having regard not only to the company's share price and preferred value, but also to the fact that Bhushan already owns 59.64 per cent of the company.
"The company (Bowen) owns coal exploration tenements and represents a risky investment."
Bhushan said it would de-list Bowen from the Australian stock exchange and continue the target's exploration activities if its bid was successful.
These include India's Adani Enterprises, which last month agreed to buy one of Linc Energy Ltd's non-core coal tenements in Queensland for $3 billion.
This has been the largest single investment by an Indian firm in Australia, Linc said at the time, according to Linc which said the companies could work cooperatively on underground coal gasification projects in the future.
New Delhi-based Jindal Steel & Power Ltd earlier this year failed to take over Rocklands Richfield Ltd, which is exploring for coal in Qld's Bowen Basin.
Jindal was vying with China's Meijin Energy Group to take over Rocklands, but wound up with a stake in the target, a seat on its board and a joint venture over three coal projects including a novel proposal to manufacture house bricks from coal waste.
Bowen's shares closed up 4.9 cents, or 87.5 per cent, at 10.5 cents - eclipsing the offer price and suggesting the market expects a higher bid, although the share trading was on low volumes.
"After completion of the acquisition of the company, Bhushan will conduct a review of the activities, assets and employees of the company in light of the information then available to it," Bhushan said.
