Forum Topics AAC Australian Agriculture Company
Scot1963
Added 9 months ago

Remember those heady days a short few years ago when China resolved to punish Australia for its abject rudeness in suggesting there should be a UN investigation into the origins of covid. And by spreading the unofficial word they effectively halted imports of Australian beef, lobster, wine, wood and other commodities. Well, the US is facing a loss of $3B of exports of beef and other meats to China as licenses for import to China by meat processors are not being automatically renewed, as historically has occured. By the end of this month Australian meat producers will be the new flavour of Chinese imports. Companies like Australian Agricultural Company, whose share price has already risen 10% since mid February, will benefit.

It means of course as export values increase domestic prices will follow, so best restock your freezers if your in South East Queensland and you lost power these last few days.

Thank you President Trump if your running cattle for a living in Australia. Good times are upon you.

If only I had listened to the prophecies I might have had some spare cash to consider a response!

Not held in RL and SM.

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Karmast
Added 3 months ago

@Scot1963 I had the intersting experience of attending the AAC AGM a few weeks ago. Having attended and asked questions at dozens of AGM's over the past few years, I have to share that this was one of the most memorable...

The Chair was less than pleased with one intelligent and well spoken former Rothschild banker, who is now an activist type shareholder. He bristled at the accurate assessment of the terrible returns for shareholders over the past decade (no price growth or dividends) and in turn questionable capital allocation of the current Chair and Board for many years.

There is one large UK based shareholder who owns 50% of the company (and has been challenged by the SEC for insider trading in a different company overseas). Then an entity run by Twiggy Forest owns 19% and the Chair owns a few percent himself. So, given this type of registry and the fact the Board seemed less than enthused about having an AGM for smaller shareholders I asked the question "What's the motivation to even be a public company?"

I was expecting a prickly answer but instead he basically said "Good question and if it was up to me it wouldn't be, but years ago someone made the decision to go public."

So, there you go folks - if you were under any illusions about getting a fair go as a small shareholder in AAC, you no longer should be...

On the plus side they served some great beef rather than tea and cookies after the meeting!

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Scot1963
Added 3 months ago

@Karmast thanks for the "on the spot" reporting. Glad you enjoyed the beef because as the former banker suggested it doesn't feel like it's done much in any direction over the couple of years its been in my general watchlist. I'm glad to report I didn't chuck any funds in its direction over that time. And so it seems this condition will continue!

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