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LIT Litigation Capital Management Limited

105.50
-3.00 (-2.76%)
11 Dec 2024 - Closed
Delayed by 15 minutes
Share Name Share Symbol Market Type Share ISIN Share Description
Litigation Capital Management Limited LSE:LIT London Ordinary Share AU000000LCA6 ORD NPV (DI)
  Price Change % Change Share Price Shares Traded Last Trade
  -3.00 -2.76% 105.50 373,266 16:35:02
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105.50 106.50 107.00 104.00 106.00
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Posted at 05/12/2024 12:16 by nchanning
I think there's really one explanation that makes sense with the share price reaction here - there were some institutions very eager for stock at 119p last week but there was no liquidity, so they've taken advantage of the temporary surge in liquidity to gobble some stock even after the bad news
Posted at 04/12/2024 08:25 by riskvsreward
It is not just the loss of capital investment. It is also expected gain from a win built into the share price.
Posted at 04/12/2024 02:58 by warno01
Queensland energy class action dismissed by judge overnight. Massive win porential gone. Interesting to see if there is any share price impact
Posted at 02/12/2024 16:37 by mtioc
The new facility is certainly an improvement and appears to be a more conventional corporate facility (e.g. no profit participation). The facility is important for the obvious cost of capital benefits, but it may also allow LCM to mitigate any adverse realisation periods.

The reduced cost of capital is described above. Undrawn debt will usually have a commitment fee 50% of margin or c. 2.75% but with no associated cost of funds. When drawn, the interest is the relevant interbank rate by currency (probably c. 4% blended down from 5% a year or so ago) and the margin 5.25% vs 8%. So, cost of debt c. 9.25% vs 13% historically.

While leverage is not a major driver of returns, if LCM wishes to maintain its 25% Balance Sheet share per investment, I believe the facility also provides LCM with insurance against an adverse period of realisations versus commitments/investments. The facility appears to have the ability to grow with the asset base. I suspect that additional facilities are a commercial intent rather than a firm commitment (that would cost LCM).
Posted at 18/11/2024 14:14 by someuwin
I wonder why LIT never seem to mention new cases to the market? i.e putting out an RNS to say they are funding a new £3bn claim against Apple would surely be beneficial to their own standing and could provide a good boost to the share price as well. I'm sure they used to announce such deals, why have they gone so shy?
Posted at 22/10/2024 09:51 by makinbuks
Gallamar, the buy back is totally ineffective. LIT does not have surplus capital and therefore should not be seeking to return cash to shareholders. It is a misguided attempt to support the share price. Different if they win some big cases, pay off the debt and genuinely have cash left over in excess of their commitments re fund 2 and their plans for fund 3 and a USA expansion. They are doing buybacks only because they are pressured to by their expensive London advisors
Posted at 23/9/2024 14:26 by maddox
Hi NChanning,

Yep that's the way I see it and if we're able self-fund the 25% commitments, avoiding expensive debt, then we'll be growing the profitability very nicely as the overheads decline as a proportion of revenue.

There is no escaping the variability in financial reporting - driven by case conclusion timing - so share price volatility is a given. It would be good to see this addressed by an explicit policy on buy-backs to discourage too deep a discount to NAV.

I'd also like to see a return to case conclusion reporting. This newsflow was a great shop window into the business model performance and maintaining shareholder interest.

Regards Maddox
Posted at 08/6/2024 11:11 by mtioc
I read the Zeus note.

Anything that raises LITs profile and explains an unusual business to a wider audience should be welcome.

Robin Savage is an experienced analyst who has been at Zeus since 2015 and was formerly at Canaccord (LIT’s current broker). Given that, I was a bit disappointed. Most of the note, if you are being polite, was a “representation” of previously provided company information. There appear to be typos and inaccuracies: 1999 instead of 2019 for third party funding, Exhibit 1 FV error and Exhibit 27 duplication etc.. Lawyers are proudly pedantic, and I wonder if LIT “proofreadR21; in advance.

Zeus positions LIT as an emerging fund management business that should be valued on a NAV rather than earnings basis. As the company can control the quality of its assets, but not the timing of realization, I suspect this is correct in theory, but most will always look at the earnings too. Initially, I was confused by the “algebraically” reference, but it seems to be sub-11+ maths: if the NAV is £100m and ROE is 10%, the earnings are £10m and, if the valuation is 1.2x NAV (£120m), the implied multiple is 12x.

For me, the new or interesting bits were:

• Commitments: 2023-£140m, 24-£150m, 25-£167m and 26-£173m
• Realizations: 2023-70, 24 – 40, 25 – 33 and 26 – 42
• Tax rate: 25% versus 10% for Guernsey listed Burford
• First North American investment (suspect Canada)

I agree with Citiwolf: the assumptions seem very conservative or pedestrian. I wonder if these were sense checked with the company. All recent company presentations have anticipated a significantly increased deployment rate over the next few years.

The potential tax rate gain from moving offshore is far more material than shaving a few basis points off of a low debt quantum.

The analyst was a bit disparaging about the LCM balance sheet business, but appeared to fail to realize that it funds all the admin costs because the funds do not have a management fee. As CW points out (and is noted in the note), the legacy assets held at cost are not valued. The analyst did not comment on the fund management quality of earnings where it is all derived from enhanced performance rather than management or other fees. The analyst also did not appear to appreciate the uniqueness of a successful litigation operation/franchise. These take longer and cost more to build than most other private capital businesses (e.g. you could create a profitable private credit fund in year but would take at least five to create a profitable litigation funder).

Overall, while helpful, it could have been much better. Like others, I suspect we will need to wait a while for the share price to reflect underlying value.
Posted at 03/4/2024 08:03 by mtioc
Over the last few days, I reviewed the latest LIT release and materials. In particular, the appendices of the last investor presentation provide an excellent summary of the firm’s current position. Parts have been presented before, but, as far as I am aware, not with summaries and durations. This is a tricky business to understand, but the team cannot be accused of being opaque.

This led me to reflect on my valuation. While inexact, I would discount my conservatively estimated future value to a present (net asset) value. I had a go, but this was nothing better than an electronic “back of an envelope,” which will inevitably have omissions and errors. My guestimate (lots of assumptions on assumptions etc.. so DYOR), after opex deductions, was broadly as follows:

• Deployed capital (own and 3rd party fee): £1.20/share (currently c. £0.9/share)
• Committed but not deployed (as above): £1.60/share (I included the whole of Fund II, which should be committed this year)
• “Expected̶1; capital (recycled LCM capital and Funds III and IV): £0.0/share (too speculative, but relevant to next point)
• Asset manager/LP: £0.3/share (Cost of hiring/retaining team in 3 jurisdictions, track record/reputation, proven “blue chip” fund raising ability. Others are struggling to replicate. This could be a material undervaluation)

The “Committed but not deployed” is possibly aggressive, but even if that was discounted/“chopped,” I suspect a medium sized private capital organization would pay £2.50 a share for LCM. If LCM remains “misunderstood” for a year or two longer, the management team and material shareholders might accept.

I would be interested in others’ views on valuation approaches, particularly re Burford. I think LCM differs, positively and negatively, due to scale, matter diversity, lack of US presence and narrower range of activities (e.g. no enforcement). Sometimes analysts have referred to multiples of NAV, which I do not understand. Litigation funders should all now have FV models, with cash flow for each investment, which could be adapted to provide projections, using pro-formas for future investments.

With apologies for repetition, but I do not think we should be guessing about how the management view their business’s intrinsic value. They are using shareholders’ funds to buy back shares, so they should articulate how they are valuing those purchases. This would include the prices at which they believe the shares are cheap and those that are too expensive, together with the basis of valuation. It is not enough to simply say the shares are "obviously cheap". Simon Wolfson (CEO of Next) is the best UK example of a clearly expressed buyback policy. They should also get their financial adviser to review and to publish their own valuation. Valuation clarity and guidance would do more to drive the share price than some other initiatives.
Posted at 21/9/2023 12:55 by someuwin
A robust outlook makes this legal stock a buy

A cash-rich provider of litigation financing has reported record results and could deliver another year of growth

September 19, 2023
By Simon Thompson

* Net profit up 145 per cent to record A$21.8mn (£11.3mn)
* EPS of 29.5ยข (15.4p)
* NAV up 27 per cent to A$124.3mn
* 2.25p a share final dividend declared

Litigation Capital Management (LIT:117p), a provider of litigation financing, has reported record results buoyed by settlements from its directly held portfolio as well as bumper fees earned from third-party funds.

The performance of both the group and the fund interests made for a good read. The third-party funds delivered A$70.2mn (£36.5mn) of post-tax profit and a hefty $24.6mn of performance fees for LCM, which receives 25 per cent of profit on each fund investment over a soft hurdle rate of 8 per cent. The group also earns an outperformance return fee of 35 per cent over an internal rate of return (IRR) of 20 per cent, so providing an attractive income stream to complement realisations from its own directly held portfolio.

Over the past three years, LCM has delivered a cumulative return on invested capital (RoIC) of 208 per cent and internal rate of return (IRR) of 76 per cent, a key reason why outside investors want a slice of the action. Earlier this year, the group’s second Global Alternative Returns Fund (GARF) raised A$291mn of commitments. The outlook for deployment of the capital is increasingly positive.

Strong trading outlook

Chief executive Patrick Maloney predicts a significant rise in the number of appointments of external administrators and liquidators in insolvency, which will translate into increased litigation funding applications in the future. That is of particular benefit to LCM given its long history of funding disputes arising from insolvency and restructuring.

Maloney also highlights a tightening and contraction of the competitive landscape in the litigation finance industry across several markets, including the UK, US and Canada. Having built LCM's expertise and capacity in the London market, as well as having access to capital through its funds management business, the well-funded group is well-placed to capitalise on tighter industry conditions.

In addition, Maloney pointed out that LCM is “seeing more opportunities in the market and expects to materially achieve commitments in the second fund”. This will position LCM well for launching its third fund, aiming to exploit the high-quality investment opportunities that underpin generations of value and cash to both fund investors and LCM’s shareholders. Furthermore, as the group continues to grow, the operational leverage of the business means that it should deliver even greater profitability and cash generation given that higher activity levels will not need to be matched with proportionate increases in overall costs.

It’s a positive narrative and one well-supported by a raft of successful case settlements in the past year that led to bumper profit for both third-party fund investors and LCM shareholders. It also explains why the board has announced a A$10mn share buyback programme alongside a 2.25p-a-share final dividend, and is planning a fixed-income investor roadshow to attract investors for a London-listed sterling retail bond to take advantage of investment opportunities.

Re-rating set to continue

The news has been well-received with LCM’s share price hitting a 12-month high around 121p post results, up from 87p when I last suggested buying over the summer (‘Litigation funders LCM and RBG digest court ruling, 27 July 2023).

House broker Investec is working on new forecasts to take into account the group’s transition to IFRS-9 fair-value accounting, but analysts had previously forecast a 66 per cent rise in adjusted pre-tax profit of A$47.7mn. Trading on a 12-month trailing price/earnings (PE) ratio of 7.5, offering a 2 per cent dividend yield and an delivering eye-catching return on invested capital, the shares remain a buy."
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