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Theo's Uranium One - A 5-Bagger in Five Years !!!


Finally, I found a bargain.It is Uranium One.To be honest, I wasn't suprised that one of us already own this stock.

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We have  reserves,mining costs and selling price of the commodity (uranium).

I think two variables are really important: mining costs and debt that company has.It is no suprise that company that has difficult mining terrain will look cheap,but in closer look at their mining costs it will be expensive.

My other mistakes were companies that I call freaks.Freaks are psychos who ,,smell,, money in the air and are borrowing money ,making aquisitions and placing risky bets.If market gets nasty they go under water.

Uranium Oe avoided debt in the past and has one of the lowest production costs,unlike other companies you can tell quite easily what is their fully diluted number of shares and what will happen if the price of uranium will go steeply down.(most contracts have floor price protection $45 per lb,but no ceiling)

MACRO facts:
1.World nuclear electricity production compound annual growth rate is 9.5% since 1971.
2.Currently there are 439 reactors with a capacity of 372 GWe of electricity.
3.16% of global electricity is generated by nuclear reactors.
4.World-wide over 338 reactors are currently under constrution,planned or proposed and nearly 75% of these are 
   located in only seven countries. (from these 338 china has 120).
5.Despite increasing uranium prices in 2006,mine production was less than in 2005
6.In 2006 supply was 39 400 tonnes U or 102.7 million pounds U3O8.Consumption was 70 000 tonnes U. 
New Supply-Where will it come from?  


MICRO  facts
Fully diluted number of shares-500 mill.
Market capitalisation- 6000 mill.
Enterprise value-5800 mill.

Proven reserves-4 100 000 lbs
Probable reserves-44 627 000 lbs
Measured reserves-10 689 000 lbs
Indicated reserves-101 867 000 lbs
Inferred reserves-283 638 000 lbs

Price of uranium-$80/pound
Cash cost (Us$ per lb)-14.5$
Cash flow- 65.5 per lb


Production (uranium lbs)
Production in 2007-2 500 000
Production in 2008-7 400 000
Production in 2009-10 800 000
Production in 2010-14 900 000
Production in 2011-17 800 000
Production in 2012-24 700 000

(Price of uranium= $80,cash costs $14.5,cash flow 65.5$)

Cash flow
Production in 2007-2 500 000*65.5$=163.75 mill.
Production in 2008-7 400 000*65.5$=484.7 mill.
Production in 2009-10 800 000*65.5$=707.4mill.
Production in 2010-14 900 000*65.5$=975.95mill.
Production in 2011-17 800 000*65.5$=1165.9mill.
Production in 2012-24 700 000*65.5$=1617.85mill.

Discounted cash flow
2007-148.8
2008-400.5
2009-531.4
2010-666.58
2011-723.93
2012-913.26

Total discounted cash flow =3384.47 + value of the company after that 9130.26= 12514 mill.

Now value of the company is 5800 mill that's 54% discount from the fair price.I think that the value of the company is much higher roughly something around 30 000 mill.(price of uranium will double at least).It gives you 60$/share.

PS:I forgot to say that the biggest jump 300% in their production will be next year-7.4 mill.lbs from 2.5 mill lbs !!!!! 


RE: UUU

Thanks pelcmarek.  I've been meaning to blog about UUU for the longest time, but, sadly, have not gotten around to it.

I agree UUU will be significantly higher in the next 5 years.  By then, the uranium shortage will be more obvious to the world as spot prices will be much higher, meanwhile, UUU will be ramping up into full production.  Hence their future cash flows will be significant.

This is, of course, if they themselves are still around.  Ian Telfer is the Non-executive Chairman of UUU and, some of us know, he was the mastermind behind the Wheaton River/Goldcorp/Silver Wheaton deal.  Everybody thought he was crazy buying up all these gold and silver assets which, at the time, seemed like high prices.  But in under 3.5 years Telfer created the 6th largest gold company and lowest cost producer in the world.  In the end, Telfer got the last laugh when Goldcorp purchased Wheaton River at a huge premium.  UUU seems to be undergoing a similar strategy of acquiring near-producing uranium assets.  So I wouldn't be surprised to see Areva or some big mining company acquire UUU in the not-too-distant future.

Theo place your bets !!!!


http://www.m-x.ca/nego_liste_en.php#optionsAction


I think somebody is betting big time on UUU.

Symbol is UUDC-call option, strike 15,expiration april 2008.
Open interest is 10 513 !!!!! Unbelievable !!! 

PS: Their South Inkai,Kharasan,Honeymoon should be open that time .Coincidence ???Laughing

Why did you sell?

Hey Theo, why did you sell UUU? Did you sell in your actual portfolio too?

RE: Why did you sell

I switched my UUU holdings for DML.  I feel DML is a better stock and since they are both beaten down 50%, I would rather own DML.  I am uncomfortable with UUU's holdings in Kazakhstan (the government has been seizing the properties of oil companies lately) and also DML insiders were buying at $8+ so anything under that is a steal I believe.

Theo,Smart move! UUU is

Theo,
Smart move! UUU is down more than 20% today. I also own some UUU, I should have done the same thing and switch to DML :(

RE: Theo,Smart move! UUU is

I'm shocked at the moment.  I can't believe my timing on that one.

I see

I see, thanks. I don't think Kazakhstan government seized any properties yet, but they have been pushing to possibly reneg some of the existing terms with the oil companies while applying pressure through other means (environmental inspections, audits, etc). By the way there was a pretty good article recently on how UUU started in Kazakhstan in the first place: NYT Article on UUU and Guistra

RE: Clinton and Guistra

Yes a perfect example of how the real bucks are made in this world.

Upset about UUU

I'm pretty upset about the incompetence and mendacity of management. I can deal with the risk of labor costs, but two estimate reductions this close together is ridiculous. I was really counting on the South Africa as a factor during my holding term. I bought when I though that the 2008 revision (announced last autumn) was priced in and then they hit me with this.

I have a lot of crow to eat. I was just bragging to a friend of mine about being up 8% on the year. This loss is shaving me down to 6%. I'm still bullish on uranium prices/producers and this announcement is probably favourable in that vein. I guess I need to consider a replacement (there's no way I'm holding UUU after this crap).

It's down another 12 percent

It's down another 12 percent as of now. Lost one third of it's value in just two days. Back to it's 2003 share price! A lot of people are very upset about UUU but this big of a drop is overreaction IMO. The metal in the ground isn't going anywhere! It will eventually be produced, and probably at much much higher metal prices.

Just venting

This is going to be brutal. Compliance won't let me out of this trade because I'm within the 30 day holding period. I guess I'm going to have to ride this one down for another 2 weeks. I'm glad I bought half as much as I originally intended.

RE: Just venting

30 day holding period for a stock?

Capital loss grace period

I think there is a period of 30 days where you can't buy the stock back that you sold for capital loss, but I haven't heard of the 30 day holding period that you can't sell it. Maybe smtkr can enlighten us on this....


No, firm specific

Our code of conduct mandates that we hold all long positions for at least 30 days--no exceptions. I bought it 14 days ago. I have to live with this one until March 9. Like I said, I'm lucky I didn't take a bigger position in this one.

I was just venting because I could have gotten out when it was down 3-5% this morning if it weren't for that ridiculous rule.

If I pass my CFA exam this summer, I'm getting the F out of here.