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| Share Name | Share Symbol | Market | Stock Type |
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| Capricorn Energy Plc | CNE | London | Ordinary Share |
| Price Change | Price Change % | Share Price | Last Trade
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| 1.50 | 0.61% | 245.50 | 16:35:04 |
| Open Price | Low Price | High Price | Close Price | Previous Close |
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| 238.00 | 236.50 | 242.50 | 245.50 | 244.00 |
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| OIL & GAS PRODUCERS |
| Announcement Date | Type | Currency | Dividend Amount | Ex Date | Record Date | Payment Date |
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| 17/04/2024 | Special | GBP | 0.43 | 24/05/2024 | 23/05/2024 | 07/06/2024 |
| 14/09/2023 | Special | GBP | 0.56 | 06/10/2023 | 05/10/2023 | 20/10/2023 |
| 29/09/2022 | Special | GBP | 1.15 | 16/05/2023 | 15/05/2023 | 23/05/2023 |
| 17/12/2020 | Special | GBP | 0.32 | 11/01/2021 | 08/01/2021 | 25/01/2021 |
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Posted at 19/9/2024 13:57 by plasybryn SP Angel today:Capricorn Energy (CNE LN) 230p, Market Cap £162m: Resumes Egyptian investmentsCapricorn reported average 1H24 production down 17% y/y to 26.2kboe/d generating $80.3m revenues and $62.6m operating cash flows to end the period with $40m net cash as at June 30.The Company reported receivables in Egypt have reduced from $169m to $145m in 1H24, with a further ~$20m received so far in 3Q24, and is progressing PSC amendment talks with its partner and EGPC.Capricorn announced YTD24 production of ~24.7kboe/d and reiterated the 20-24kboe/d FY24 guidance range, with development drilling operations resumed in Egypt based on a liquids focused strategy.In Senegal, start-up of Woodside's Sangomar development could lead to a potential contingent payment of up to $50m in 1Q25 if crude oil prices remain above $60/bbl in 2H24.The stock is up on the back of a solid 1H24 operational performance from Capricorn, which was boosted by the improved fiscal landscape in Egypt that has seen $34m collected against its Egyptian accounts receivable in YTD24.The Company also remains committed to returning any available proceeds of the Woodside contingent payment to its shareholders, but is first responsible for the payment of disputed taxes in Senegal arising from the sale.18M on from the leadership change, Capricorn has made good progress across its five key priorities of capital returns, cost savings, scaling back non-core operations, maximisation of value from Egypt and a corporate culture change.We think management still has to demonstrate greater value from this stand-alone small-cap Egyptian producer than was available from the merger options to create a more balanced larger player preferred by the former management. |
Posted at 03/7/2024 12:00 by plasybryn SP Angel today:-performanceCa |
Posted at 07/6/2024 05:37 by last of the mohicans The worrying bit of the article ......"The North Sea Transition Authority and Offshore Petroleum Regulator for Environment and Decommissioning have been kept appraised of the prospective holding company administrations, and have provided certain assurances to the proposed administrators. A separate secured bond with $50million outstanding has been issued by Waldorf Production UK, another group subsidiary. The main assets secured in favour of this bond are its 20% interest in the Catcher field - separate from the 20% interest in Catcher previously noted - and 29.5% interest in the Kraken field. Again, Waldorf Production UK, which owns these assets, is not in administration and will be engaging with an ad-hoc committee of bondholders in short order." ----------- In other words the old CNE assets have this $50M bond that's now in default secured against them! Looking more & more messy :( LOTM |
Posted at 05/6/2024 09:41 by last of the mohicans Oh my that could throw a spanner in the works !Could open up a lot of unknowns .............. Will they still get the Columbus field or not ? Will they still get the other $22.5M in 2025 ? & what about the $48M liability that was covered, but CNE let Waldorf use that cash in the meantime! All of that on top of the Senegal end of June deadline ............... LOTM |
Posted at 29/5/2024 12:44 by plasybryn From: share price Angel EnergyDate: 23 May 2024 at 11:02:18 BSTCapricorn Energy (CNE LN) 192p, Market Cap £177m: Improvement in Egyptian receivablesCapricorn announced average YTD24 production is in line with the midpoint of 20-24kboe/d FY24 guidance, with an update on production performance to be provided later in the year.The Company reported receivables in Egypt have reduced from $169m to $151m enabling an improved net cash position of ~$101m as at end-April, ahead of settling a $25m contingent payment for Egypt to Shell.In Senegal, start-up of Woodsideâs Sangomar development by the end of June could lead to a potential contingent payment of up to $50m in 1Q25 if crude oil prices remain above $60/bbl in 2H24.A perfunctory update ahead of the AGM, which points to the positive impact of the improved fiscal landscape in Egypt that has seen $71m of receipts during 4M24.The Company wants to see the initial results of its drilling activities before updating the market, with this yearâs development activities expected to have a greater impact on 2025 production than 2024.Capricorn believes its market capitalisation implies that the underlying net asset value in Egypt are heavily risked, but we think management still has to demonstrate greater value from this stand-alone small-cap Egyptian producer than was available from the merger options to create a more balanced larger player preferred by the former management. |
Posted at 29/5/2024 01:30 by last of the mohicans So if I look at this from the AGM"Since year end, Capricorn's cash position improved from $190m to $209m at 30 April 2024. Over the same period, receivables in Egypt have reduced from $169m to $151m, and debt drawn has reduced from $114m to $108m. Subsequent to 30 April, the Company has settled the $25m contingent consideration due to Shell related to the acquisition of the Egypt assets." Its effectively saying as of 7th June 2024. That the company has net cash of $26M ($209M - $50M dividend - $25M to Shell - $108M of debt) plus $151M of receivables its yet to receive. Its also committed to spending $57M during the rest of 2024. So in actual fact cash is going to be pretty tight for a quite a while - even when it gets a decent boost in early July for Q2 sales. I guess the share price is being buoyed at the moment by the possible $50M Woodside payment even although they wouldn't receive it until early 2025 & then distribute it after that. With 72m shares in issue we're talking roughly £0.56 per share, which is a lot of cash relative to the market cap. If there are any hiccups to the Egypt payments again, then they will have to cut-back on that cap-ex pretty darn quickly to ensure they have the cash to keep going (although they will get a little from the North Sea this time round to help sustain them & there admin costs are now much lower than before) so the burn rate will be much lower per month. There's also only $12M left to pay to Shell in early 2025 & a bit more from Waldorf to come in to help off-set it. In summary there cutting it pretty tight, I would have liked to see a little more wiggle room maybe $15 - 20M just to be on the safe side. Not sure how they are going to be able to buy any more North Sea assets, unless the EGPC makes another hefty overdue receivables payments in the coming months. Issuing equity when its only effectively at current cash value ( & doesn't take into account Senegal payment or the value of Egypt embedded in the shares) would be daft & dilutive to everyone. LOTM |
Posted at 25/2/2024 11:41 by xxnjr Hi Last of the Mohicans,Haven't looked in here for a while. Thanks for your continued analysis and running commentary. Walvis Bay was probably a tug refuelling stop + maybe a bit of R&R. BP's tug towed 'GTA FPSO' and 'Gimi' FLNG both stopped over at Walvis enroute for Senegal for hopefully a 3Q/24 start up which would be about 9 months late as pipelay vessel failed on that development. CNE production as you say seems below previous guidance. Apache, or APA as they now call themselves, are no.1 onshore in Egypt (220K boepd gross) and their 4Q mentioned some constraints in availability of workover rigs in country to perform the recompletions/workov Without more info from CNE it's difficult to say if decline is due to inherent reservoir issues or whether this is just a badly managed operation? Apache seem to be able to maintain their production fairly flat (on plateau) and have done so for years despite the in country headwinds. |
Posted at 30/10/2023 01:43 by last of the mohicans aspect100,It was a takeover target on 2022 & the 2 offers were rejected by the institutions who changed the board to the current one. I'd say its highly unlikely to be a takeover target now that it's paid out $550M in cash. If someone wanted access to such a lot of cash that opportunity is now gone. The company has down sized substantially since late 2020. There used to be 585M shares in issue its currently just 94.5M & will soon enough be under 91M, ie under 1/6th of the size it used to be. Your seeing me talk of large dividends ( & they are on a per share basis) but in reality the actual cash amount is not that much. With 91M shares a $0.10 a share dividend costs the company $9.1M (with 585M shares that would mean a cost of $58.5M). With 75M shares ( that's me assuming the 2024 Waldorf payment is paid as a special dividend & another share consolidation along with it) it only costs Capricorn $7.5M for a $0.10 dividend per share. And with the 55M number I talked of in 2025 in my last post the cost is just $5.5M for every $0.10 dividend. So I regard it as a cash cow going forward. If I'm wrong & there is a takeover offer then what sort of price are they going to offer & the directors ( or more importantly the Insto's) going to accept ? They wouldn't take £2.70 in 2022. And on my calculations the 2 share consolidation & buy-back have only enhanced the remaining value on a per share basis ( not an overall valuation of the company) since then. I currently have the figure at around £4.20 per share & growing with every share bought back below that price. However it will need adjusting depending on what's said on 30th November about Egypt & the company's oil & gas reserves. If they write down the value of the recoverable reserves then that figure will fall, conversely if they increase the recoverable reserve number it will rise. Given Capricorn is now just a 1/6th the size it once was just a small revision up or down will make quite a difference to the asset value per share. 1M barrels of oil divided by 585M doesn't even give you 2 per barrel, yet with 91M shares its 11 barrels & the inground value of that. LOTM |
Posted at 28/10/2023 17:16 by last of the mohicans Year End Prediction30th June net cash position was $176M less the Roughly $100M special dividend that has now been paid. Net receivables were $148M with $113M of it overdue. 2nd half capex in Egypt for development & production was put at $40 - $50M G&A for the 2nd half I'm estimating as $30M weighted to Q3. Share buy-back program $14M in the 2nd half (although I don't think it will be finished by year end). Net interest payable on Egypt Loan $5M after allowing for interest receivable on Capricorn cash balances. There is around $20.3M in the accounts due to be paid within 12 month's I'm guessing its payable around the end of the year / early Jan & is effectively offset by a matching cash balance, so all we'll see is a reduction in outstanding debt & a lower overall cash balance. There is also $25M payable to Shell in Jan 2024. The only other cash cost will be OPEX - I've calculate that at $13 per net boe. So on 6,000 bopd & 7,000 boed nat gas & 184 days that works out at $31.1M (1st half cost was $27.5M for comparison in the accounts) Only other thing on the subtraction side is depletion of reserves, but that's an accounting number affecting the assets of the company not a cash number. The 1st half was down as $55.1M so I'll be using $60M as my number for this. So total 2nd half cash expenditure is expected to be between $120.1M & $130.1M depending on the actual D&P number. On the income side, I've estimated Brent oil to average $88 per barrel for the half & the discount for Egypt to be $2 per barrel taking it down to $86. Thus oil income will be $95M (86 x 6000 x 184). Working out the nat gas number is sadly more complex. Capricorn use a number of 5.6 to convert there gas to boe rather than the standard figure of 6. Which means it has a higher BTU number than 1055 per MCF. After much debate I've decided to price it at 6x$2.95 rather than 5.6x$2.95 although it doesn't really matter that much as the difference over the 6 months is only $1.5M So nat gas income will be @ $22.75M This gives us a total income on paper of $117.75M I say on paper because although its earned in the current half year, payments are always in arrears. So for Oil production in Oct the cash isn't actually due to be paid until 1st Dec & Gas not until the following month. So the easiest way to think about it is payment being a quarter behind actual production. So the 2nd half would normal get the income earned in Q2 & Q3 which in this case means the lowest oil prices for the year so far in May & June being in the calculation from a cash received perspective. Bearing this in mind I'm going to use an overall number of $100M from the cash side of things with regard to income. The next important question that needs to be addressed regards the overdue amounts, has this got worse/better/or stayed the same from what happened in the 1st half of the year. I don't think they will have improved yet, so I've gone with a similar deterioration to that of the 1st half, ie a $50M increase in both net receivables & overdue amounts. Offset by a $20M increase in payables (the figures were $51M, $47M & $21M in the half year accounts). So effectively a further $30M deterioration. Now to put it all together............ Cash of $76M + income in cash of $70M ($100M - $30M) = $146M Less expenditure of between $120.1M to $130.1M Leaving us with a net cash balance of between $15.9M & $25.9M Plus net receivables of $215.75M ($148M + $50M + $17.75M) with $163M of it overdue ($113M + $50M) & net payables of $56M ($36M + $20M) Now there is a scenario on these numbers where the company doesn't have the physical cash to pay the $25M to Shell in Jan 2024 although there should be payments coming into us on 1st of Jan (or close to then) of over $20M which would alleviate the problem. However that scenario only exists if Capricorn hasn't taken mitigating action before then like reducing the D&P spend / suspending the rest of what's left of the buy-back for a few weeks etc, or borrowing $15M max for 3 month's. I'm sure they will take the appropriate action as needs be because Cheiron & Capricorn will simply not let the outstanding balances continue to build up without reducing there D&P spend or pushed it back until cash is coming in to match it, as its not in there interests to do so especially with Cherion being the largest Independent O&G in Egypt with many more licences than ours to deal with (fund) as well. Our G&A expenses will be down to just $2M a month max by then as well & there will be a large incoming payment from Waldorf before April to make the cash bank balances look very rosy again. Having dealt with the potential downside lets look at the upside of where things are. I've used the max expenditure numbers in these calculations but I've not done so on the revenue side, oil production by late December should be nearer 7,000 bopd rather than the 6,000 I've used for example. So our net position at the end of June was $186M ($76M cash + $112M net receivables [$148M - $36M of payables] ) of near liquid assets. At the end of December we're looking at near liquid assets of between $175.65M & $185.65M ( with a minimum of $15.9M to $25.9M of it in cash + $159.75M net receivables [$215.75M - $56M of payables] ) Now obviously it would be preferable for the cash figure to be higher & the net receivables number lower by the corresponding amount. In other words we're literally back to where we were at the end of June, only having spent another $40 - 50M on D&P that has increased our production rates ahead of 2024, $14M on the share buy-back & a large chunk of the $30M on G&A right sizing the business for the future. Which makes for a very bright outlook for 2024, even if we were to ignore the Waldorf payment completely. We'll have higher production & lower G&A costs, & as some of those net receivables get paid to us, they'll be a lot of room for dividend payments. In Q1 of 2024 Expense's for example will come to around $64.5M ($25M Shell, $15M D&P, $15.5M OPEX, $6M G&A, $3M Debt Int). Yet using 7,000 bopd & 6,000 boe of nat gas, revenue will come to $65.5M ( $54.75M Oil, $9.75M gas) using the same average prices of $86 for Egypt oil & $2.95 for gas. Now you're saying where's the spare cash for ordinary dividends on those numbers ! Well in Q2 Expense's will drop to $43.5M ($20M D&P, $15.5M OPEX, $5M G&A, $3M Debt Int) & that's with increasing D&P by another $5M for the quarter. While income should actually increase due to production increases from the cash invested in Q1, but even leaving it unchanged we'll be $22.5M better off, meaning that Capricorn should be able to pay an interim dividend in Sept/Oct of around $15M easily. Translating that into a per-share number depends on what happens to the Waldorf payment & whether that was used to give us another special dividend & share consolidation before then. If it was then we'd be looking at around $0.20 per share for the interim dividend rather than say $0.15 As for the final dividend for 2024, well that would all depend on what the oil price does during the year, but if it did average out at a price similar to this year's then I wouldn't be surprised to see $30M being paid out ie potentially $0.40 per share (in May 2025) & $0.60 in total in ordinary dividends for the year to 31st Dec 2024 & that's just the beginning of these significant payouts. The potential 2025 payment's from Waldorf & Woodside ahead of that final dividend announcement could have a significant bearing on the per share amount's. It will depend on the share price at that time as to how many shares would be cancelled from another consolidation, but I can see the potential for Capricorn to have just 55M shares in issue by then(90.55M end of 2023 to 75M in 2024), thus the final dividend payout would be around $0.55 per share instead of $0.40 which is a massive difference. LOTM |
Posted at 18/9/2023 19:38 by last of the mohicans I thought I'd write this for anyone new here or for anyone who wasn't paying attention back in May when the company distributed $450M via a £1.15 special dividend & 70 old shares for 33 new share consolidation.When I first looked at it the share price was around £2.25 - £2.30 a share & the share buy-back was active, which I found really strange because they were in effect over paying for the shares they were buying back! I think someone in the company eventually picked up on that & the buy-back stopped until the share consolidation was done. In actual fact they should have stopped it until the share price was below £2.177 & then continued again, why ? Well the inflection point with a dividend of £1.15 & consolidation ratio of 70 to 33 works out to be £2.177. I think examples are the best way of demonstrating it to you. So 70 shares priced at £2.177 give a total value of &152.40 You then receive a dividend of £80.50 (£1.15*70), the ex-d price of the shares should then be £1.027 (£2.177- £1.15) multiple it by 70 & you have an equity value of £71.89. You then divide that equity value (£71.89) by 33 (new shares) & you get a price of £2.178 per share. The consolidation ratio (70/33) means there are now only 47.14% of the shares in issue compare to before. So you have a large multiplier effect if the closing share price isn't £2.177. If it was £2.24 instead, then the dividend is the same but the closing equity value is not £71.89 its £76.30 & when you divide that by 33 it works out at £2.312 after the consolidation. In other words the original £0.063 difference turns into one of £0.134 Which means you really wanted to still own the shares at the ex-d date because you were better off. Conversely if the share price was £2.12 at the ex-d date, the consolidated shares should only return to market at £2.058 which makes you worse off holding them at the ex-d date you'd be better off selling out before hand & then buying them back afterwards. -------------------- This time round the dividend is £0.56 & the consolidation ratio is 3 old into 2 new ones. So the inflection point is £1.68 This time the compression ratio is 66.66% so there is a lot less gearing than the last time round. So the effect isn't as dramatic as before, but it will still make a difference to your bottom line. At an ex-d close of £1.74 the shares should return to trading at £1.77 & if its £1.62 then they should return at £1.59 -------------------- In May I expected the share price to rise ahead of the ex-d date that didn't happen & the share price was very weak on its return to trading. LOTM |
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