Further to my Seahawk Drilling, Inc. (NASDAQ:HAWK) liquidation value post, I set out below the slightly more optimistic valuation of HAWK’s rigs if they can be sold as operating rigs. Here is a guide to the second-hand market for rigs (click to enlarge): I’ve combined it with the list of HAWK’s rigs and their operating status from the July [...]
Archive for the ‘Liquidation Value’ Category
HAWK rig market values
Posted in Liquidation Value, Seahawk Drilling (NASDAQ: HAWK), Stocks, tagged Liquidating Value, Seahawk Drilling (NASDAQ: HAWK) on July 6, 2010 | 4 Comments »
HAWK liquidation values
Posted in About, Liquidation Value, Seahawk Drilling (NASDAQ: HAWK), Stocks, tagged Liquidation Value, Seahawk Drilling (NASDAQ: HAWK) on June 30, 2010 | 7 Comments »
Seahawk Drilling, Inc. (NASDAQ:HAWK), which I’ve posted about before, has taken a pounding over the last few days, down over 11% just yesterday to close at $9.61. It seems crazy to me. HAWK is cheap as a going concern, but with its market capitalization at $113M, it’s now at a hefty discount to its liquidation value. Here’s [...]
Guest post: Kerrisdale Capital on Coventree Inc. (TSXV:COF.H)
Posted in Liquidation, Liquidation Value, tagged Coventree Inc. (TSXV:COF.H), Kerrisdale Capital on June 2, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Sahm Adrangi and Jeff Borack of Kerrisdale Capital have provided a guest post on Coventree Inc. (TSXV:COF.H). Kerrisdale Capital is a private investment manager that focuses on value and special situations investments. Here’s their take on COF.H: Coventree Inc. is a liquidation-oriented investment. When it was operational, the company was a Canadian specialty finance company that [...]
Guest post: Michael B. Rapps on WGI Heavy Minerals Inc (TSE:WG)
Posted in About, Activist Investors, Liquidation, Liquidation Value, Stocks, tagged Activist, Net Net, WGI Heavy Minerals Inc (TSE:WG) on April 16, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Michael B. Rapps of Geosam Capital Inc has provided a guest post on WGI Heavy Minerals Inc (TSE:WG). Michael recently joined Geosam Capital Inc., a Toronto-based private equity firm that focuses on small-capitalization activist investments and distressed debt investments. Prior to joining Geosam Capital Inc., he practiced law for 3 1/2 years at Davies Ward Phillips [...]
Oozing Alpha
Posted in About, Activist Investors, Liquidation, Liquidation Value, tagged Activist investment, Liquidating Value, Liquidation Value on April 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Farukh Farooqi, long-time supporter of Greenbackd, founder of Marquis Research, a special situations research and advisory firm (for more on Farukh and his methodology see The Deal in the article “Scavenger Hunter”) and Greenbackd guest poster (see, for example, Silicon Storage Technology, Inc (NASDAQ:SSTI) and the SSTI archive here) has launched a blog, Oozing Alpha. Says Farukh: Oozing Alpha is [...]
Forward Industries Inc (NASDAQ:FORD) position exited
Posted in About, Activist Investors, Forward Industries Inc (NASDAQ:FORD), Liquidation Value, Stocks, tagged Activist investment, Forward Industries Inc (NASDAQ:FORD), Liquidation Value on April 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve exited the position in Forward Industries Inc (NASDAQ:FORD) at yesterday’s $3.23 close. I opened the position at $1.44 on July 20 last year. The stock is up 124.3% on an absolute basis and up 98% relative to the S&P500. Post mortem We started following FORD (see the post archive here) because it was trading at a discount [...]
Marty Whitman on value and corporate governance
Posted in About, Liquidation Value, Net Current Asset Value, Stocks, Value Investment, tagged Activist investment, Liquidation Value, Marty Whitman, Net Current Asset Value, Net Net on March 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The superb Manual of Ideas blog has an article by Ravi Nagarajan, Marty Whitman Reflects on Value Investing and Net-Nets, on legendary value investor Marty Whitman’s conversation with Columbia Professor Bruce Greenwald at the Columbia Investment Management Conference in New York. I have in the past discussed Marty Whitman’s adjustments to Graham’s net net formula, which I [...]
Cheap Stocks 21 Net Net Index results
Posted in About, Liquidation, Liquidation Value, Net Current Asset Value, Net Quick Stocks, Net Quick Value, Stocks, tagged Liquidating Value, Liquidation Value, Net Current Asset Value, Net Net, Net Net Stock on February 26, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Jon Heller of the superb Cheap Stocks, one of the inspirations for this site, has published the results of his two year net net index experiment in Winding Down The Cheap Stocks 21 Net Net Index; Outperforms Russell Microcap by 1371 bps, S&P 500 by 2537 bps. The “CS 21 Net/Net Index” was “the first [...]
Net current asset value and net net working capital back-test refined
Posted in About, Liquidation Value, Net Current Asset Value, Net Quick Stocks, Net Quick Value, tagged Liquidating Value, Liquidation Value, Net Cash Stock, Net Current Asset Value, Net Net, Net Net Stock, Net Quick Value on February 19, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Jae Jun at Old School Value has updated his great post back-testing the performance of net current asset value (NCAV) against “net net working capital” (NNWC) by refining the back-test (see NCAV NNWC Backtest Refined). His new back-test increases the rebalancing period to 6 months from 4 weeks, excludes companies with daily volume below 30,000 shares, and introduces the [...]
Back-testing the performance of net current asset value against net net working value
Posted in About, Liquidation, Liquidation Value, Net Current Asset Value, Net Quick Stocks, Net Quick Value, Stocks, tagged Liquidating Value, Liquidation, Liquidation Value, Net Current Asset Value, Net Net, Net Net Stock, Net net working capital, Net Quick Value on February 18, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Jae Jun at Old School Value has a great post, NCAV NNWC Screen Strategy Backtest, comparing the performance of net current asset value stocks (NCAV) and “net net working capital” (NNWC) stocks over the last three years. To arrive at NNWC, Jae Jun discounts the current asset value of stocks in line with Graham’s liquidation value [...]

