RE:RE:RE:RE:Bernd MilkereitI agree about it being a great place to park money right now.
TLA appears to be in a very enviable spot. They have this mountain of cash just as asset prices in many areas (especially those NOT oil-related) are in free fall. (Not to mention their business should be booming--unless supply chain issues are so bad as to mess up everything.)
I recall Galvanic Applied Sciences (run & mostly-owned by the same crowd) did very well plunking some of their cash pile into what I think was an Alberta utility stock (?). Trans-Alta? Not sure. The moment for getting into something like that might be approaching. (It was more or less the same idea when TLA lent the $5 million to Bri-Chem 5 years ago.)
TLA might consider an NCIB, Normal Course Issuer Bid--i.e., a share buyback. Though shareholders tend to love share buybacks, especially if the stock appears as cheap as TLA currently is, I can see where the board might be less enthused. The reason: while it improves underlying value PER SHARE it would also have the effect of shrinking this (already tiny) company viewed in its entirety.
Or they could look to make some sort of acquisition. I think a few years ago there may have been talk in an MD&A about looking to buy a company. More recently it was about buying a process or product line or technology. Done right, and at a compelling price, that could be great, especially if it could help pivot the company away from its dependence on oil prices.
I don't know if Nick Forbes has any experience with making company acquisitions. But he'd be able to get excellent guidance from Chair Grant Reeves--who, among other things, has overseen the largely successful acquisitions at Circa Enterprises for many years.