North American Palladium Ltd (USA) (NYSEMKT:PAL), a Canadian precious metals producer, crashed by 50.73% yesterday with a huge volume of 47 million against the daily average of 4.5 million only as the news of the company entering an agreement with Brookfield to recapitalize the company, or in other words, to enhance the company’s liquidity and reduce the debt by a significant measure.
CIBC World Markets Inc. has been retained by North American Palladium Ltd (USA) (NYSEMKT:PAL) to acts as the financial advisor regarding this recapitalization. A planned review process will be conducted too, to solicit interest in a sale of the company. June 30, 2015 is the last date by which the company can obtain a superior proposal to the Recapitalization.
Technically, the stock has been in a bear market for the last 5 years and there is no sign of any bottom yet. In the last 12 months, the stock dropped from $0.38 levels to the lows of $0.12 before trying to bounce back. It recovered almost all the yearly loss before the bears took control back again and the price action yesterday drove the stock down to a new lifetime low of $0.10.
The accurate context of the price action in the last 5 years can be understood if the logarithmic scale is applied, which shows the downward channel containing all the movements very clearly and discloses the internal structure. The long term trend reversal level comes at $0.40 levels and until that is overcome; the stock will keep hitting new lows. The volume pattern suggests a lot of scared investors dumping it all and running away from the stock. This kind of situation frequently leads to a key reversal day but the price is far from showing any signs of that scenario. Investors may well stay away from this one.
