Olam: Muddy Waters Initiating Coverage With Strong Sell.
27 Nov 2012 14:12
Muddy Waters rates Olam International shares a Strong Sell. In this latest report Muddy Waters highlights how Olam runs a high risk of failure. Its "asset heavy" strategy appears to be an off-the-rails CapEx and acquisition binge. Management talks about the "gestation" of these projects, but our research makes clear that they are marred by incompetence and perhaps significant misconduct. The vast majority of the acquisitions we have researched are of low quality assets that appear to bring little more than cosmetic benefits to Olam. In short, these projects are "pie in the sky" that we strongly believe are destroying substantial amounts of capital...
http://www.muddywatersresearch.com/research/olam/initiating-coverage-olam/
Olam Bonds Slump for Fifth Day as Yields Surge Past 10%
2012-11-28 02:16:54.657 GMT
By Ven Ram
Nov. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Olam International’s bonds trading
at 83.5 cents on the dollar
* Yield on 5.75% U.S. dollar notes due September 2017 surges
60 bps to 10.18%, according to BNP Paribas prices; that is
highest level since security began trading in September
* Olam says it faces ‘no risk of insolvency’; refutes Muddy
Waters’ allegations as false, misleading