Counter proposalThis is my provocative counter proposal.
Why not tap into debt and immediately buyout Capstone at 1.5 C$ per share?
As I understand Capstone owns some 30M shares so it would take C$45M to buy them out (around US$35M).
We will then be able to repay that debt by the end of the year and we will also end up with 93M shares instead of the 123M we have today.
This will leave us in 2010 with some 0.48 C$ per share of cash flow and no debt (assumptions: production=3.5Moz, silver=US$14, 1.29 C$ = 1 US$).
With such a buyout, at C$1.5 we would be trading at only 3 times expected 2010 cashflow.
Never underestimate the powerfull effect of a buyback when shares are undervalued.