RE:RE:Book value and goodwillNo supposition, seems likey you are just projecting.
Paradigm's Jan. 25, 2022 report on XBC shows hydrogen generator companies p. 3) at a 22X EV/S (used as an approximation to P/S as diff is net debt) based on 2021 estimates and after the cleantech correction.
The purchase price and rev for HyGear is public info. From the XBC prospectus in Dec. 2020, where HyGear was purchased for closer to shares at $6.
"HyGear generated €11.4 million of revenues, €3.4 million of EBITDA and €2.5 million of operating profit in 2019. HyGear is expected to experience annual revenue growth and to maintain positive EBITDA and operating profit margins in 2021."
"On December 31, 2020, Xebec announced the completion of its acquisition of HyGear Technology and Services B.V. (“HyGear”), for aggregate consideration of EUR82,000,000 (approximately $127,300,000) and the assumption of EUR18,400,000 (approximately $28,600,000) in net debt. The purchase price for the acquisition was satisfied by way of a cash payment in the amount of EUR42,000,000 (approximately $65,200,000) and the issuance of 10,014,364 common shares of Xebec." I provided detailed info here for the general audience, I'm sure you know where to get these answers if you have not already.
As for VFF, this report raises adequate flags so it's not investable, just my opinion. Common management still exists. It's been marked as a pump and dump in the highly competitive MJ market, it's a tomoato producer which has embarked to cash in on the MJ craze, they've acquired a bunch of companies and have over $100M of goodwill. Legalization of MJ in the U.S. will help the share price.
Cheers
https://citronresearch.com/village-farms-will-the-sec-halt-this-pump-dump/
ferret_ca wrote: incase you hadn't noticed, since int rates started raising valuation metrics ( like price x sales for 1) for tech companies have imploded , even worse for small caps, valuations of private tech companies have cratered. so your suppositions on valuations of 22 x sales etc are totally ridiculous imho, so far out to lunch there is no lunch.
also your belief that what they paid for hygear at 9x sales was great, I disagree they paid a lot at the time, it looks better now that xbc s/p has tanked as they used a good portion of the buy by issues shares at $9/sh. I'm sure hygear mgmt are just thrilled with this, lol.
the point of pointing out the good will on the balance sheet was to show it is a fair chunk of their net book value, it you think that's great then good for you, looks to me like mr market doesn't like it much though. they have chunks of goodwill from various companies they bought ( obviously hygear was the highest) .
keep an eye on VFF haha, btw did you know they have a renewable energy division and power their whole delta facility with green energy which they produce from waste from the vancouver organic land fill next to them and selling the excess energy to fortis whom they have a 20 yr contract with (and a 5 yr add on option after the 20 yrs) oh and their partner on the rng unit is not xbc, lol.
cheers ferret