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The following section was excerpted from this fund letter.
Calumet Specialized Products Partners ( NASDAQ: CLMT)
We just recently started a financial investment in Calumet in the event-driven portfolio. Calumet fits strongly within the “moderate threat, high benefit” container of our portfolio for factors that will be obvious.
Calumet is a refining and specialized chemical business with 3 difficult drivers anticipated to play out in the next year. Initially, the business is preparing to monetize its renewable resource service through either a straight-out sale or an IPO. Second, CLMT is transforming its business structure from an unknown master-limited collaboration (” MLP”) to a Delaware C-Corp. Lastly, the business remains in the procedure of re-financing its capital structure with inexpensive financial obligation from the Department of Energy. If these drivers play out as anticipated, I think Calumet’s shares might be worth over $30 vs. the present share cost of $16; although there are significant threats to accomplishing that result.
I invested a considerable quantity of time investigating Calumet’s renewable resource service and the more I found out about this possession the more I got delighted about what it might be worth. The business invested ~$ 550 million over the previous 3 years to reconfigure a filthy refining plant into an inexpensive manufacturer of eco-friendly diesel and sustainable airline company fuel. With an extra growth task prepared for 2025, Calumet is poised to end up being the leading supplier of sustainable airline company fuel (” SAF”) in The United States And Canada.
SAF is a sustainable jet fuel that presently represents the only feasible method for the airline company market to decarbonize over the coming years. SAF is a tested innovation with countless industrial miles flown and currently has a recognized market in Europe. North American airliners are likewise excited to mix SAF into their existing jet fuels. While jet fuel is a commoditized market, SAF remains in brief supply and Calumet will have among the very first scaled operations when its Montana plant growth task is total in 2 years. The very first phase of the eco-friendly plant’s production came online in 2015 and is anticipated to create over $200m in EBITDA in 2024.
Due to a number of special qualities of the plant including its physical area, access to inexpensive transport, and access to inexpensive inputs, I think Calumet’s renewable resource service is a crown gem possession that deserves more than the present market cap of the business. Calumet’s management means to benefit from the present hunger for premium eco-friendly jobs by monetizing this possession. The business has a continuous sales procedure and I think unitholders will get a premium assessment for business at the end of this procedure.
The 2nd driver is the conversion of the legal structure from an MLP to a C-Corp. LVS Advisory has actually had previous success investing in business going through C-Corp conversions. MLPs and other odd legal structures can not be bought by the majority of institutional financiers due to tax factors. MLPs are likewise not qualified for addition in a mainstream equity index. As an outcome, lots of sub-scale MLPs end up being orphaned securities with restricted trading liquidity. On the other side of a C-Corp conversion, there is a wave of purchasing from active and passive funds that are all of a sudden able to own the stock. This better trading liquidity can assist re-rate a stock’s assessment greater and unlock to other tactical alternatives consisting of a merger. Handling a C-Corp conversion triggers the General Partner and management group to lose some control over the business; for that reason, Calumet’s C-Corp conversion shows the General Partner’s severity in recognizing the amount of its properties for minority owners.
The last driver discussed is the prospective re-financing of CLMT’s capital structure with inexpensive financial obligation from the Dept. of Energy (” DOE”). This is necessary due to the fact that Calumet has a dreadful balance sheet with high-interest financial obligation. A low-priced DOE loan in combination with the increased capital from the renewables task will serve to enormously de-risk Calumet’s monetary position over night. This is where I see the most run the risk of in the Calumet setup due to the fact that the DOE funding looks appealing however isn’t ensured at this moment. Nevertheless, if the DOE loan were to fail, there are most likely other, albeit more costly, sources of funding readily available.
It is uncommon to discover a business like Calumet with a number of difficult drivers and such a clear course to opening worth for minority financiers. In my experience, having numerous methods to make money tends to increase the chances of success in an event-driven scenario.
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