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Bullboard - Stock Discussion Forum E-L Financial Corp Ltd T.ELF

Alternate Symbol(s):  T.ELF.P.H | ELFIF | T.ELF.P.F | T.ELF.P.G

E-L Financial Corporation Limited is a Canada-based investment and insurance holding company. The Company operates through two segments: E-L Corporate and Empire Life. E-L Corporate segment represents investments in stocks and fixed income securities held directly and indirectly through pooled funds, closed-end investment companies and other investment companies. The investment strategy is to... see more

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Post by Malpeque2 on Sep 11, 2023 7:39pm

Method

There is not much method to the madness here.   ELF is not going to access tha capital markets and  raise capital at these current prices.    The public market listing is a liability,   not an asset.    It does cost $$ to stay public year in and year out.    

The accreation to NAV is very very small IF you are already controlling 70-80-90 percent of the float thru friends and family,    and the buybacks are only 1% of the float in any one year.      I can do the math,  if you buyback 1% of the floar at 50% of NAV in any year ,    you have added exactly  .05% accreation,  per year,   to the NAV.

It's public just as a Canadian Joke really.    Like that movie Canadian Bacon.    A quaint joke.
Comment by Method on Sep 11, 2023 10:25pm
I gave you the short answer but the longer answer is I think they want to close the discount.   I think I have some insight given I had the chance to speak to Duncan and hear him answer other questions at the AGMs from 2015-2019 and have had a few conversations with the CFO & CIO the last few years. I think I'm the only one who sent questions in for the first two pandemic AGMS. I ...more