SB1M og Jonas Meyer har akkurat sluppet en oppdatering på REC hvor det ser ut til at det er bekreftet at tollen forlenges. De sier følgende:

REC (Sell tp NOK0.4): Another year of import tariffs in China

Conclusion
We downgrade our recommendation on REC to Sell from Neutral and maintain our target price of NOK0.4 per share. The Chinese Ministry of Commerce (Mofcom) announced this evening that it is prolonging the import tariffs on polysilicon to January 18, 2020. Thus, combined with a weak polysilicon market and a limited cash position, we see a high probability for a shutdown of Moses Lake and a need for external funding within 12 months. There are three events that may accelerate the need for external funding, including an indemnity loan of USD25m, a tax claim of USD30m and a change in working capital from USD-32m. The tax claim may in a worst-case scenario result in a payment of USD250m, which could bankrupt the company. Even in a best-case scenario where China cut the import tariff on polysilicon (which it prolonged only hours ago), we believe REC may need external financing to ramp up capacity.

Our analysis
12 months liquidity runway at best. REC had a cash position of USD41m at the end of Q3 2018 and the minimum operating cash is estimated to c.USD20m. We estimate that the liquidity runway is approximately 12 months in the current market, but the aforementioned indemnity loan, working capital and tax case may accelerate the need for external financing. The tax case may result in a payment of USD250m due within two weeks after final decision, which most likely would result in bankruptcy. Thus, we argue that the company deserve a very low valuation, at best.

又一年的关税 – Another year of tariffs. REC’s last straw of hope is that China remove its five-year-old import tax of 57% on polysilicon, which it just decided to prolong for another year. Given the latest trade talk between the US and China, we would never say never, although the case looks weaker. According to a google translation of an announcement from Mofcom, six Chinese companies including GCL-Poly applied for continued import tariffs. The announcement was published in Chinese only minutes before the Oslo Stock Exchange closed today, and we argue that the share should trade down on Monday morning.

Valuation. We value REC on a scenario based SOTP approach, which gives an equity value below zero in several of the scenarios.

Analysts
Jonas Meyer"

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