re: Ann: ADE: Beach declares its offer price ...
BPT now holds around 65% and the offer remains open for another month. Declaring it final shuts up some of the talk that a higher price will come along, as this cements the 20c ceiling till after this offer closes. My guess is we will see an ongoing trickle of a percent or two per day, unless there is a big down day across the board, when we might see some extra take up. If the market is in the same range or lower come the close date, I expect we'll get to over 90%. If the market is up strongly, we might take longer to get there. Holding ADE on the 23rd becomes pretty risky, the price could easily drop 20%-30% when BPT stops buying, with no liquidity and about to get a new board amenable to Beach. If I held ADE, I'd be pleased with the 40% spike, but a little annoyed that the future potential of the company was sold out. It's a risk we have here with BPT too. The last thing I want is to see this get taken over for $2 a share, I reckon it to be a $20 stock (yes, $20b mkt cap) in 5 years. Fortunately, Reg seems to be a cannier operator than the ADE management.
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BPT Price at posting:
$1.26 Sentiment: LT Buy Disclosure: Held