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In today’s briefing:
- Piedmont Lithium: General Mosquito & “Textbook Corruption”
- Fushan Energy: 50% of Mkt Cap in Cash / ~18% Dividend Yield / Great Returns Just in Dividends
- Empire Energy Group Ltd – Another Step Closer on Carpentaria-2H Test Data
- Australis Oil & Gas Limited – Holding the Next Big Thing
Piedmont Lithium: General Mosquito & “Textbook Corruption”
- Short seller Blue Orca is alleging Atlantic Lithium (ALL LN) is seeking to obtain a Ghanaian lithium mining licence via “textbook corruption”.
- Piedmont Lithium (PLL AU) is a substantial shareholder of Atlantic, together with a co-development agreement for the Ghanaian project, in which the mining license has yet to be ratified.
- Orca reckons the license ratification will fail the corruption sniff test, which in turn will jeopardise the Tennessee lithium offtake facility, currently awaiting a DOE grant.
Fushan Energy: 50% of Mkt Cap in Cash / ~18% Dividend Yield / Great Returns Just in Dividends
- Shougang Fushan Resources (639 HK) trades at 4.5x/5.1x FY22e/23e with 50% of the market cap in cash and a 17.8%/15.8% FY23e/24e dividend yield (based on an 80% payout ratio).
- Since our call in FY21, close to 64 cents of the share price (25% of the current share price value) has been returned as dividends making it a dividend machine.
- We forecast at least another 70 cents of dividend for H2 FY22 and FY23, bringing the dividend in 3.5 years to more than half the current share price.
Empire Energy Group Ltd – Another Step Closer on Carpentaria-2H Test Data
- Empire Energy Group Limited (ASX:EEG) is an oil and gas producer/developer, with onshore Northern Territory (NT) and US oil/gas production assets.
- EEG has the largest tenement position in the highly prospective Greater McArthur Basin, which includes the Beetaloo Sub-basin.
- The NT energy basins are fast developing as strategic high-calorific gas bolsters for east coast Australia’s future domestic requirements, growing Gladstone LNG ullage and potential supply for Darwin’s expanding LNG export terminals, amid funding support from Territory and Federal governments.
Australis Oil & Gas Limited – Holding the Next Big Thing
- Australis Oil & Gas (ASX:ATS) is an oil and gas producer/developer, with a strategic and controlling position in the emerging Tuscaloosa Marine Shale (TMS) oil play, onshore US.
- The TMS is an Eagle Ford-equivalent but early-stage oil play with recoverable oil potential of around 7bn barrels – this is the next big thing.
- Australis represents a highly leveraged and attractive exposure to the transformational potential of the TMS oil play.
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