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Q: Hi Team,
I am a shareholder of IAE for only a month ,bought it on weakness and feel that investors are impatient about the final testing on the platform and ship coming out of the Polish shipyard in regards to Stella. I feel that this selling is more emotional ,could be profit taking.Should I buy more on weakness or hold on and wait for the final tests to be completed? What are the possibilities of a takeover offer and what would be a fair price for IAE shares?
thank you,have a good day,
Jean C.
Read Answer Asked by Jean on July 20, 2016
Q: Hello Peter et al.

I am finally starting to see the bounce back in my Ithaca Energy investment. My average cost is now at $1.38 so I am still down on my original investment. As you probably know based on my previous question history I have been invested in this stock for a long period of time. I have been burned by the two delays in the upcoming Stella FPU start-up. The company has been wise with its hedges over the years and I know that this has prevented certain bankruptcy of the company in this oil industry downturn. Some hedges come off in July of this year and the remainder (6600 bbl/d) come off in July 2017. They have reduced their debt over the last year, currently at $670M and have survived their RBL redetermination at the end of Apr/16 with $100M of headroom. The production of Stella is said to add an additional 16K boepd to the production portfolio in late Sep/16. With the oil price now hovering around $50/bbl do you think there is still a huge risk to this stock? There has been a lot of rumours to a Delek take-out since they own about 10% of IAE at $1.05. I worry that they will take it out before Stella or after Stella start-up at a low premium and I will not get my potential return for waiting. It has been up approximately 85% YTD which is nice to see but I am hoping to see a $2.50 to $3.00 price after a full quarter of Stella production. This I would expect in 4Q 2016 results. My other lottery ticket Iona Energy never paid off. It went bankrupt in the end. What is your viewpoint on IAE-T? Seems to have a lot of volume in the UK but very low volume in Canada and I am surprised by this compared to past history. It use to be covered highly in Canada before the delays with Stella and when it was trading in the $2.50-3.00 range. Any possible reason for this in your opinion or is it still in the doghouse by Canadian oil analysts?

Thanks in advance

Brendan
Read Answer Asked by Brendan on May 30, 2016