Another newcomer to the main market...anybody any idea what the production figures are ?

Nice one Cyril.

More whispers?

second bid @450 rumoured........http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/markets/article-23933395-aberdeen-is-tipped-for-promotion-after-talk-of-a-bounceback.do
while Heritage Oil again hogged its share of the spotlight, with whispers that a second approach at 450p could come at the weekend. Heritage, which reportedly spurned the advances of a mystery suitor from Abu Dhabi offering to stump up 425p a pop, rose 3.4p to 316.9p.

good stuff nice one thanks

Lovely stuff Cyril, keep em coming, anyone for 500p?.

450p BID????????


http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/markets/article-23933395-aberdeen-is-tipped-for-promotion-after-talk-of-a-bounceback.do

back to 270p soon be aware

is this as accurate as MRW being taken over imminently - at least that has some perceivable logic?
if this prognostication for HOIL is other than an inane statement without any supporting reasoning whatsoever, on what do you base your pearl of wisdom?

Yes please do tell tanker.

i willput it this way IF there was a bidder of over 400p the SP would not be 300p and falling fund managers put out these tales because they want them higher to sell.

has for MRW they will be very good for holders have no doubts about that .

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funds would be buying this at 300p IF it was true of 400p plus bid

on the other hand HOIL most assuredly have found a truly massive gas field, so the fundamentals aren't all crap either

i only stated that if there was a bidder the SP would not be at around 300p .

I don't agree with a lot of what you say but in this instance I agree. If there was a chance HOIL was going to get taken out at 400p + then the sp wouldn't be dropping now. I suspect it was a way of boosting the price to enable some to get out. Several companies have used this strategy over the past.

Fortunately I was in at the time so it did me a big favour!

IMO

Lot of crap talked about funds and their workings, policies etc.

Often more than not it comes down to their portfolio management just like the PI, I should know I worked for Shore Capital for 3 years in my earlier days and was in touch with fund managers on a daily basis.

The last broker reco of about 460p forget who it was now, its up above gave a fair some of the parts and overall of the business with the gas rather than oil included.

Nothing added in for specualtive take over talk.

By the way if nobody noticed theirs quite a bit of red around, awaiting inflation results in 10 mins.

Here we are.......

18/03/11

Brokers note from Evolution Today.


In our current sum of the parts model for Heritage we estimate that Heritages
core value is 193p/sh based on own cash on the balance at YE plus its Russian
assets based on their CPR value (in the December 2009 circular). This excludes
the cash held in escrow (61p/sh) pending the outcome of the CGT dispute with
the Ugandan government (which looks close to being resolved now Tullow has
signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Government of Uganda) and
before we factor in any risked upside from the exploration potential offshore
Malta, Tanzania, Mali or in Pakistan.

In effect, if we ignore the escrow account and risked exploration upside the
implication is that the market is factoring in just 97p/sh for Miran, implying pretty
much the most bearish case in our modelling (less we assume no monetisation at
all). If we add back the escrow account cash then the implied value for Miran all
but disappears (36p/sh). Hence we believe it is important to fully model Miran to
see the valuation implications.

Our new fair value for Heritage is 467p/sh. This is based on a core value of
193p/sh, 61p/sh for cash held in the escrow account and 212p/sh for Miran where
we have assumed a pre-development sale of the asset at a 20% discount to our
DCF valuation. Our 467p/sh target price no longer assumes any risked exploration
upside from Malta, Tanzania, Mali or Pakistan. So even with this conservative
approach to the valuation, investors still have a 64% upside to the current price.

No talk of a take over factored in to that broker report.

Surely the arbitrage guys would be falling over themselves if a bid was genuinely a possibility? I have heard nothing from them, only press speculation.