NeoSunTzu
36 minutos hace
Ackman and the warrants: it should be clear why and what Ackman is trying to do, at least ostensibly, with the warrants conciliation offer, but this is just not a good deal for shareholders given all that's known about what the government did to screw shareholders in this fiasco, surreptiously try to kill this business, AND the growing consensus and voices that see and openly state the obvious that we all know (competently expressed by Fiderer, Howard, Rosner - just to list a few of the big names). One has to wonder if Ackman has had any contact with Rosner, Fiderer, or Howard, or if Ackman's team has delved deeply into this entire mess beyond just the financials.
It is entirely possible to analyze this strictly from a financial/future earnings/change in business risk/change in business operations (guarantee business replacing former portfolio holdings) prespective and view the twins as profitable enough now to support billions more shares, but I think this is banking too heavily on future economics that just CANNOT be foreseen or predicted. Furthermore, it looks like begging big daddy government to give us back our toys if we promise to be good little boys and girls, and not tell anyone about the m o l e s t a t i o n. But most importantly, it is totally sanctioning the government's now well-known deceptions, its on-going corruption, will forever damage conservatorship law, weaken shareholder rights and protections, and poke in the eye a plethora of other fundamental market, legal, economic, financial, and social contracts and concepts in the name of making a deal. This has the smell of fatigue, capitulation, and hide the government potato (corruption) which SHOULD NOT NOR EVER BE tolerated. These companies and shareholders have legal justification for being allowed to repurchase these illegally obtained warrants.
Yes, yes, we all know the "Art of the Deal" - more like the "Fart of the Deal" as far as shareholders are concerned. I am hopeful Ackman's opening move here is some well-thought out poker - you NEVER show all your cards. There must be some way to assure Ackman has the Fiderer, Rosner, and Howard bullets in the chamber. If a deal MUST be sanctioned, it must not be JUST in the interest of expediency nor due to capitulation, especially if full exposure of the fraud, elimination of the FHFA, and other means we are legally entitled to are pursued to the most reasonable extent.
primewa
47 minutos hace
The 47th POTUS will liberate F&F out of the Cship from the current crook regime. The time for the crooked regime is numbered. Hold the F&F SH hostage for the last 16 years. When the hedge started talking, especially like Akman, it was not taken lightly, and social media spread so quickly all over major news networks. I love the sounds of it, and it is the music to all F&F SH ears. Again, congratulations to F&F SH . The mm know it, and it is a matter of time before F&F will be back to private SH, and these 2 mammoth SPs will be more than $100 since they control 80 percent of US housing. Akman only average for $34 I believed will be triple. Relax and enjoy the ride and let your sorrow from the last 16 years behind. If you can afford the heat simply get more share from F&F while you still can. Thank you again, DJT, the 47th POTUS, and MAGA, and God bless America.
Semper Fi 88
4 horas hace
Tim Howard on AcKmans tweet. : I’ve noted before Treasury Secretary Paulson could not legally put Fannie and Freddie into conservatorship—only FHFA could do that—but he did it anyway, relying on what in his book he termed “the awesome power of the government,” and he did it when the companies did not meet any of the twelve criteria in the Housing and Economic Recovery Act under which FHFA could have put them in conservatorahip. More to the point, Treasury would not be “forgiving” the senior preferred; it would be recognizing the realities that had it not made the senior preferred repayable only with its permission, and subsequently imposed the net worth sweep (which it did not consider to be a repayment), the companies would have paid off the senior preferred, with its 10 percent annual dividend, long ago. So, no, I don’t give any credence to the notion that it would be illegal for Treasury to cancel the senior preferred.
navycmdr
5 horas hace
Ackman Predicts IPO for GSEs Under Trump
December 31, 2024 - Dennis Hollier - dhollier@imfpubs.com
This assumes Treasury exercises its warrants
for 80% of the common stock & sells that stock off
over the next FIVE YEARS !
Hedge fund billionaire Bill Ackman predicted Monday that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
will finally be freed from their conservatorship during the second Trump administration.
The enterprises stock spiked 18% following his post on X.
Ackman, whose firm Pershing Square Capital Management is a major stockholder in
the enterprises’, said the potential exit from conservatorship was made possible by
the steps taken during the first Trump administration when then-Treasury Secretary
Steven Mnuchin and then-Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Mark Calabria
agreed to end the net worth sweep and allow Fannie and Freddie to begin to
retain capital.
Since then, the GSEs have socked away a combined $168 billion in capital. This is
more than sufficient to cover the type of risk faced by the enterprises, Ackman said.
It’s worth noting, though, that these retained earnings are still completely offset by
an equivalent increase in Treasury’s liquidation preference.
The Pershing leader estimated that the re-privatization of the enterprises will generate
more than $300 billion in profits for the government. This assumes Treasury exercises
its warrants for 80% of the common stock and sells that stock off over the next five years.
Ackman claimed ending the conservatorships will also remove $8 trillion of liabilities
from the federal balance sheet.
In Ackman’s scenario, the Trump administration will agree to write off its senior preferred
stock. Next, the capital ratio of the enterprises will be reduced from more than 4.0% today
to 2.5%, the same level required of mortgage insurers, but for a much less risky asset.
At this level, Ackman says, Fannie and Freddie would only need to raise a combined
$30 billion in capital.