Daejan – sold in 16 days for a 50% profit

I bought Daejan (LSE:DJAN) on 5th February at £52.90 per share. My expectation was that this property company would continue to increase net asset value over the next five years. I would hold during that time, while the share price discount to net asset value would fall from an exceptional level of 56% when I bought to a more normal 20% to 30%.

I was quite content to settle down to receiving a regular dividend of 2% of the purchase price while the company advanced and the share price moved up over a number of years.
What I didn’t know was that the Freshwater family had been planning for a weeks to buy the 20.5% of the shares they don’t already hold. Honest, I had no inside information.

So 16 days after my purchase the shares rocketed to just shy of the offer price of £80.50 and I sold at £79.41 after broker costs, a 50.1%.

In early February I was pretty confident that the enormous gap between NAV and share price would close, but can’t take any credit for the speed that it happened.
(Previous newsletters describe the rationale for investing in Daejan: 7th – 13th February)

Is it a good thing?
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