WHC 0.28% $7.16 whitehaven coal limited

A buyback doesn’t necessarily float the share price.There are a...

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    A buyback doesn’t necessarily float the share price.

    There are a range of reasons to do a buyback, sine being
    - the funds are excess
    - share price is under valued (whatever that really means)
    - to show investors management won’t blow out their brains on growth projects / M&A

    It could be a mix of all 3.

    A standard buyback arguable makes 1/10th of 1% of stuff all difference to the share price, WHCs may be a bit more meaningful as they will eventually be buying back 35% of the company.

    It is quite possible WHC will end up paying more than the trading range when the buy back is done. If so I am completely fine with that, tighter control over a scarce high quality coal asset is fine with me.

    Going a step further I’d be fine if they put debt back into the capital structure once the growth projects were executed. Again, better to have concentrated ownership.


 
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