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Friday, August 25, 2006

Things are Beginning to Add Up

Today we were shocked when we looked up a quote on the Toronto Stock Exchange for SXR. We were forced to refresh the page and then begin investigating how at 10:30 the stock had already traded 4 million shares and not moved significantly in any direction. We have watched in awe over the past few weeks as it seems that all volume has dried up for nearly all uranium stocks and new that 400,000 shares per day was the 3-month average, however recently it has been at about 180,000-380,000 and generally on the lower end of that range. So naturally when we saw this, we were confused. This is significant because someone dumped a block of nealry 3.7 million shares (10x average volume) in one swift trade that was not only absorbed by the market, but successfully absorbed! This is a positive sign where we now know that the stock has had low volume and it is not a lack of buyers, but rather a lack of sellers! Apparently there are some out there who want these shares, and when available they will buy.

My hypothesis here is that all the current investors who are in these stocks understand the fundamentals and have the financial heft to have survived the past downturn. Remember, I have said all along that we could not have another significant upturn until we shook all the weak hands out of the market. We think this explains what now appears to be the suckers rally that took place nearly 2 months ago, the subsequent fall and now the lack of trading in these stocks. We do not believe that the stocks will go up dramatically just through these smart investors buying, but rather through the masses rushing back into the very same stocks that they rushed out of soo quickly and abandoned trading in for the past quarter.

We also have been going through some papers that have been sitting around for some time now, and decided to act upon these 'leads'. We had an interview with Neal Froneman, who happens to be the CEO of SXR, saying that his company was very interested in another aquisition that made sense in the United States. We found this interesting as it supports our thinking that Cameco and SXR and those future producers group would become major players in the uranium patch. However, we were intrigued to see that he seems almost more interested in adding good managements teams and, much more importantly, good geologists. UR Energy and Strathmore were mentioned as potential buyout targets, which make sense as it seems that SXR is interested in adding ISR capable teams to its line-up. SXR is a traditional mining company and seems to possess the knowledge in open pit mining, but it is my opinion that they realize that they will need highly capable ISR knowledgeable individuals to bring Honeymoon online. What better way to do that through an aquisition that also adds some great properties that will soon be producing in the near future? I cannot think of one and if you can please leave a note in the comment box, because that could be the next big 'thing' in the uranium industry. We are not sure about the possibilites surrounding this, but we will be looking into this further and shall revisit the topic at a later date.

2 Comments:

  • At 6:43 PM, Blogger -theinvestar said…

    As far as the difference in valuation between PDN and SXR...the market has a tendency to overprice some securities and underprice others. We think that SXR and URE are the best value on the barometer of shares per pound. URRE is a company that we owned shares in so briefly we don't even think about it. We bought in and then there was a reverse stock split, and supposed to be a listing on the Nasdaq. Well I am not sure what happened with all of that, but type in URRE to any finance site and its not a Nasdaq stock. Also, although the company has production and makes money...if they cannot come through with the equity and stock exchange part of the equation then they really aren't going to create any value over the long-term for anyone. Think like this...even if they have the best assets in the world and drag their feet on certain objectives, it's not going to help anyone in the longrun, and certainly only cause trouble. Just be careful (as I have previously warned) about companies, their pumpers, and who their management teams are.

    Well thank you for the kind comments doey to start off with. But they are and they are not consistent with the management teams estimate. Overall management underestimated the TOTAL amount of reserves as they only measured out 600 meters from the drill hole I believe. Norwest measured 1000 meters out. However, Norwest has an underestimate per meter as is my understanding. That would mean that management overestimated what is located in that 600 meters closest to the hole. I want to say that it does not matter, however it REALLY does. But you cannot compare apples and oranges, and that is what is being done. In my opinion both estimates are conservative, but the parties seem to think that the saturation levels are different closer to the hole. The experts have the last say and today that is Norwest. But to simply answer your question they used different distances.

     
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