Gresham House Energy Sto... Share Discussion Threads

[dickiehh] 24/4/2024 10:21

Thanks Nickrl - the communications seems a bit of a shambles though - which is also why the share price is so volatile. After last week's vague update, the share price goes down by 10 percent on Thursday (at one point) before recovering a little. Now it's up 20 percent this week, based on the same information except this time they bothered to put it in an RNS. As you say, a monthly update is needed with full transparency on what's going on

[cc2014] 24/4/2024 10:07

I heard that too Nick but I'm not sure it will wash with the major institutions. It certainly doesn't hold any sway with me.

I think what he said was something like the directors of Gresham House, Gresham House and Gresham House clients own 10% of GRID. What, like what have Gresham clients got to do with it?

Anyways I think Gresham House would be wise to throw us shareholders something. It's the right thing to do.

[nickrl] 24/4/2024 09:42

@CC2014 re above i did ask that very question last week but Rupert xxx MD of Gresham House told me "Ben and quite a few of us have skin in the game so are feeling the effects as well" but he did intimate that BoD always have it under consideration.

[cc2014] 24/4/2024 08:45

Nice. Now all they need to do is for Gresham House to cut their fee to the average of the share price and the NAV like they have already done on the property fund they are running which I can't quite remember the name of. (might be RESI?)

[cruelladeville] 24/4/2024 08:44

Encouraging update this morning? Presumably a direct read across to others in the business too.

[dickiehh] 24/4/2024 08:03

Why didn't they provide this information in their update last week?

[cc2014] 24/4/2024 07:56

Transparent update today. They must have been listening to you hpcg

[ghhghh] 24/4/2024 07:55

The old replacement cost argument. Companies are valued on their future income versus enterprise value and replacement cost doesn't factor in that.

I'd argue that mid term, it's all about replacement cost since a function of supply demand. Currently oversupply but this will reverse if new investment decreases?

[hpcg] 23/4/2024 23:09

The old replacement cost argument. Companies are valued on their future income versus enterprise value and replacement cost doesn't factor in that. What any buyer is banking on is an improvement in trading conditions. Weaker sterling might be a factor as it puts up hydrocarbon prices, but political pressure is more likely. That doesn't make a buying opportunity IMO, but it could ultimately turn out profitable. Having genuine trading information obfuscated doesn't help, and, as ever, if there were good news it would be told.

[nickrl] 23/4/2024 18:09

@specto its below replacement cost because insufficient money can be made from them. Stifel say they reckon a nett 40k/MW is income which is way below what GRID need to break even let alone payout a dividend.

[cc2014] 23/4/2024 12:14

Recovering nicely. Price moving up strongly and very few sellers coming out.

[cc2014] 23/4/2024 10:21

Thanks SpectoAcc.

The article confirms my view that the share price bears no resemblance to what is going on in the real world.

it's also interesting that the market has no interest in HEIT, but that's another story. HEIT is covered in red flags and for once a number of participants seem to have noticed.

[george stobart] 23/4/2024 10:04

Are the news regarding the ponzi scheme and the undeclared relationship with the CEO's secretary legit?

If so, that practically means that NAV falls to 11.69p

[spectoacc] 23/4/2024 09:52

"Below replacement cost".

[cc2014] 22/4/2024 16:37

Excellent. I'll have another 8.5% rise tomorrow please Mr. Market.

[newbold120] 22/4/2024 08:02

I wonder how the newer NEDs of SONG would deal with this situation?

[nickrl] 19/4/2024 19:57

@CDV they never uploaded the previous presentation when the divi was cut which is a shame. Best we pester them as i would like to have listened to the analysts ones as well.

[cruelladeville] 19/4/2024 17:37

Does anyone have a link to a recording of today's investor presentation please? Nothing on the GRID website or YouTube. Thanks.

[cc2014] 19/4/2024 16:05

#811 That's stretching my imagination.

GRID is the largest in the UK by some margin and that includes everyone, not just the quoted funds.

[cruelladeville] 19/4/2024 15:42

I think there's a window of opportunity open for a predator. Both GRID and HEIT are too small to stay as independent businesses in my opinion.

[jane deer] 19/4/2024 14:36

Gresham House has been really poor at communicating. For years an excessive focus on NAV - too little useful data beyond that. Now they are beginning to give a bit more operating data (but still restricting that with claims that things can not be disclosed because they are commercially sensitive). I have not really followed HEIT that much - but I went to AGM yesterday (as I hold a handful of shares for monitoring purposes) and management were open and readily discussing operational issues (positive and negative). That was an eye-opener, as well as their RNS being more informative. On the call today, Gresham House I think realised they have got the level of disclosure badly wrong and, if I read the tea-leaves correctly, you can expect more disclosure when the FY23 numbers are released on 29 April.

Having said the above, I have bought GRID this morning. I see its market EV (proforms for completing the 1,072MW build out at c£375k/MW vs HEIT (preforma for its c395MW build out) on c£575k/MW. Both comfortably below replacement costs of £700-800k/MW. HEIT (despite its higher leverage) arguably demands a premium for the better disclosure and all the batteries being 2hours. But GRID's discount to replacement cost just seems too big.

[cruelladeville] 19/4/2024 14:26

Thanks. That's a great peg in the ground. Regarding affordability of future dividends.

[willywonka12] 19/4/2024 14:10

Was very tempted to take a big loss but it started to rise. I will wait and see .hopefully all.bad news is out .now