Worst Pricing Mismatch I've Ever Seen

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Worst Pricing Mismatch I've Ever Seen By Nick Hodge | Wednesday, July 25th, 2012 You need to capitalize on this pricing mismatch right away. If you remember, earlier this year I was pounding the drum hard for graphite miners... Prices for graphite were some of the last to respond to the commodity supercycle. Copper had run, gold had run, rare earths had certainly run... But graphite — essential for making both steel and the batteries of tomorrow — lagged behind. Advertisement This is the New Rare Earth The rare earth run of the last few years... will be nothing compared to this next resource crunch. Prices for this material have already climbed 300%. And the U.S. and UK have declared it a "critical supply mineral." Now meet the only company with the world's biggest deposit of the stuff... Click here.  Gold ran from below $400 to over $1,800 an ounce and copper went from $1.00 per pound to almost $5.00 — both increases of several hundred percent. But graphite prices remained relatively flat, trading between $1,000 and $1,500 from 2005 until the last couple years. Once the world realized graphite was in the same position as rare earths (that demand was and will continue to rise, but supply was controlled by the Chinese), prices took off quickly. Graphite prices tripled in short order: It was when the price for the commodity was rising that I started telling you to buy graphite mining stocks. And You Still Should Be Whenever the price of a commodity rises as dramatically as it did with graphite, inevitably companies try to find more graphite to mine. Makes sense, right? If the price is flying, why not mine it and sell it? Well that's exactly what happened. Before graphite prices took off, there were only a couple graphite companies outside of China. Now there are 36. But the one to buy is still the one I went to visit late last year, when this bull was just getting started. And that's what I want to tell you about today... 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And it's closer to new graphite production than any other company outside of China. In fact, the company just released a bankable feasibility study for the mine. It's a third party evaluation of reserves and potential profitability. This is the document on which the National Instrument 43-101 will be based. That's the document that Canadian public companies must file to ensure they aren't lying to investors. And the official numbers for this graphite mine look terrific... The conservative estimate is that this company has at least 470,000 metric tons of high-quality graphite. So to put a total value on the mine, we have to multiply that by the current price of $2,600 per tonne. Right now, if graphite prices remain unchanged, this company is sitting on AT LEAST $1.22 billion. And it could be much more than that if the price of graphite rises, as expected. And that's why this is one of the worst pricing mismatches I've ever seen. As I write, this company's entire market cap is only $46.9 million, or 26 times less than the graphite it's proven to own. And get this... A major securities firm just ranked every non-Chinese graphite mine in the world. There were 98 mines owned by 36 companies. This one was ranked number one in terms of size of the deposit, graphite flake size, purity, and progress of the mine. It was rated as a Buy with a 12-month price target of $3.00 — yet it's currently trading for a buck. See why. Call it like you see it, Nick Hodge @nickchodge on Twitter Nick is an editor of Energy & Capital and the Investment Director of the thousands-strong stock advisory, Early Advantage. Co-author of the best-selling book Investing in Renewable Energy: Making Money on Green Chip Stocks, his insights have been shared on news programs and in magazines and newspapers around the world. 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