Daily analyst comments
Mostotrest to hold IPO by summer ‘11
29.06.10 10:52
Mostotrest board chairman has publicly pledged to hold an IPO no later than in spring 2011. Investors are likely to offered newly issued shares. We are upbeat on the news and believe it is to drive up company stock valuations.
On June 28, Mostotrest board chairman and primary owner, Mikhail Abyzov affirmed the company’s plan to hold an IPO. No specific dates or details are known so far; however, according to Abyzov, the offering could be arranged for in late 2010 – early 2011 and be comprised of both Mostotrest new and existing shares. We note that an issue has been placed on the agenda of the company AGM, scheduled for June 30, about amendments to company charter concerning the 1,241,200 authorized shares, which is to enable the company to regard the placement of newly issued shares together with the existing ones as a base-case scenario.
In addition, Abyzov noted that Mostotrest had already made several steps towards an IPO; in particular, it has released an IFRS report and is finishing the restructure process.
We are upbeat on the news and expect the IPO to trigger growth in company stock valuations. Apart from the 2009 dividend payments, expected at RUB 645 per share, Mostotrest AGM is to consider splitting up company equities in a 1:200 ratio, which is bound to exert a positive impact on the security’s liquidity in the run-up to the IPO.
As before, we consider company stock as the best investment opportunity in the infrastructure sector on the risk/return ratio and reiterate our BUY rating for Mostotrest common shares (RTS: MSTT) with a target price of USD 1423 and a 47% upside.