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4 Sept 2015listing compliance notice▼ BadMajor
Magnum Hunter's common stock fell out of compliance with the NYSE's $1.00 minimum average price rule (30-day average was $0.99) and was tagged with a ".BC" deficiency indicator, with six months to regain compliance - the clearest signal yet, after a year of asset sales and covenant waivers, that the market had priced in serious distress.
Relational Investors, LLC, Relational Investors Mid-Cap Fund I, L.P, Relational Investors Mid-Cap Fund II, L.P, Relational Fund Partners, L.P, Relational Coast Partners, L.P, Relational Investors IX, L.P, Relational Investors XV, L.P, Relational Investors XVI, L.P, Relational Investors XX, L.P, Relational Investors XXIII, L.P, Relational Investors XXIV, L.P, RH Fund, Ralph V. Whitworth, David H. Batchelder reported a MAGNUM HUNTER RESOURCES CORP shareholding of 10,204,080 shares (4.90% of votes) in a periodic institutional filing.
Magnum Hunter and Morgan Stanley's infrastructure fund extended the deadline for Magnum Hunter to fund its roughly $18.7 million pro-rata share of a March 2015 capital call into Eureka Hunter Holdings, after Morgan Stanley had already put in its $37.8 million share - Magnum Hunter increasingly unable to keep pace with its own midstream subsidiary's capital needs.
Relational Investors, LLC, Relational Investors Mid-Cap Fund I, L.P, Relational Investors Mid-Cap Fund II, L.P, Relational Fund Partners, L.P, Relational Coast Partners, L.P, Relational Investors IX, L.P, Relational Investors XV, L.P, Relational Investors XVI, L.P, Relational Investors XX, L.P, Relational Investors XXIII, L.P, Relational Investors XXIV, L.P, RH Fund, Ralph V. Whitworth, David H. Batchelder reported a MAGNUM HUNTER RESOURCES CORP shareholding of 13,039,848 shares (6.26% of votes) in a periodic institutional filing.
Magnum Hunter's lenders eliminated the $65 million cash-raise requirement, let the company stretch payables from 90 to 180 days, and waived key leverage and current-ratio covenants through the end of 2015 or until it sells its Eureka Hunter stake - a full-blown liquidity crisis now being managed through covenant relief rather than growth financing.
Relational Investors, LLC, Relational Investors Mid-Cap Fund I, L.P, Relational Investors Mid-Cap Fund II, L.P, Relational Fund Partners, L.P, Relational Coast Partners, L.P, Relational Investors IX, L.P, Relational Investors XV, L.P, Relational Investors XVI, L.P, Relational Investors XX, L.P, Relational Investors XXIII, L.P, Relational Investors XXIV, L.P, RH Fund, Ralph V. Whitworth, David H. Batchelder reported a MAGNUM HUNTER RESOURCES CORP shareholding of 17,699,168 shares (8.50% of votes) in a periodic institutional filing.
Facing a lender-imposed requirement to raise $65 million in cash, Magnum Hunter closed the Antero acreage sale for about $33.6 million and had raised roughly $55.6 million total toward the target; its bank lenders extended the deadline to meet the full $65 million to July 10, 2015 - a liquidity squeeze now driving asset sales rather than growth.
Relational Investors, LLC, Relational Investors Mid-Cap Fund I, L.P, Relational Investors Mid-Cap Fund II, L.P, Relational Fund Partners, L.P, Relational Coast Partners, L.P, Relational Investors IX, L.P, Relational Investors XV, L.P, Relational Investors XVI, L.P, Relational Investors XX, L.P, Relational Investors XXIII, L.P, Relational Investors XXIV, L.P, RH Fund, Ralph V. Whitworth, David H. Batchelder reported a MAGNUM HUNTER RESOURCES CORP shareholding of 21,894,670 shares (10.51% of votes) in a periodic institutional filing.
Relational Investors, LLC, Relational Investors Mid-Cap Fund I, L.P, Relational Investors Mid-Cap Fund II, L.P, Relational Fund Partners, L.P, Relational Coast Partners, L.P, Relational Investors IX, L.P, Relational Investors XV, L.P, Relational Investors XVI, L.P, Relational Investors XX, L.P, Relational Investors XXIII, L.P, Relational Investors XXIV, L.P, RH Fund, Ralph V. Whitworth, David H. Batchelder reported a MAGNUM HUNTER RESOURCES CORP shareholding of 27,492,687 shares (13.20% of votes) in a periodic institutional filing.
Triad Hunter agreed to sell undeveloped, deep-formation leasehold acreage in Tyler County, West Virginia to Antero Resources - a sign of Magnum Hunter selling down even its core Appalachian acreage, a stark reversal from the aggressive Appalachian buying of 2013-2014, as the 2014-2015 oil price crash squeezed the company's finances.
ICS Opportunities, Ltd, Cognizant Holdings, Ltd, Integrated Assets, Ltd, Millennium International Management LP, Millennium International Management GP LLC, Millennium Management LLC, Israel A. Englander reported a MAGNUM HUNTER RESOURCES CORP shareholding of 770,508 shares (0.40% of votes) in a periodic institutional filing.
Eureka Hunter Pipeline expanded its ABN AMRO-led credit facility from $117 million to $225 million, adding lenders and lowering its interest rate and commitment fee - a sign of continued lender confidence in the midstream business even as parent Magnum Hunter kept restructuring its own balance sheet.
Magnum Hunter refinanced into a Fourth Amended and Restated Credit Agreement with Bank of Montreal on similar terms, but with a much lower starting borrowing base of $50 million (against a $250 million ceiling) - reflecting the company's shrunken, more concentrated asset base after selling off Eagle Ford, Canadian and much of its North Dakota acreage over the prior 18 months.
Bakken Hunter agreed to sell its remaining non-operated Divide County, North Dakota interests to SM Energy for about $84.8 million cash - the largest of the North Dakota divestitures yet, effectively completing the exit from the Williston Basin position built up in 2012.
Morgan Stanley Infrastructure's purchase of ArcLight/Ridgeline's Eureka Hunter stake closed, and Magnum Hunter, MSI and Eureka Hunter's other members executed the new LLC agreement governing the pipeline company - completing the swap of Eureka Hunter's outside institutional backer from ArcLight to Morgan Stanley.