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Nov 20, 20231 min read
Energy Value - Regional Deep Dive
This week, we build upon the energy & power valuation stack analysis of last week. By undertaking a more regional focused analysis, with...
Oct 31, 20233 min read
Energy Values
To accurately evaluate the relative ranking of cost for energy commodities, one needs to understand not only the constituent drivers of...
May 4, 20221 min read
Alternative Fuels Update - Vol & Rho
The current macro-economic climate indicates inflationary price pressures on option values according to the mechanics of option price...
Apr 25, 20221 min read
A Jones Act Waiver Case Study
This week at MOIC, we analyze a possible "waiver" to the Jones Act with respect to economic viability, ignoring the political scope of...
Mar 30, 20221 min read
LNGC Building & Competition
This week, MOIC looks at the recent denial of a merger between two materially impactful firms in the Large LNG Carrier segment by the EU...
Mar 9, 20221 min read
Lending Risk Margins
This week MOIC looks at building a simulated model for senior lending in the current dynamic macro-economic and monetary policy...
Mar 9, 20221 min read
Investment KPI's - The Prudential Ratios
This week at Maritime Opportunity Investment Corp. we look at investment return KPI's for various asset classes and seek to understand...
Feb 28, 20221 min read
Testing Variable Significance - Aframax Tanker Case Study
This week we look at the EV/EBITDA multiple of an Aframax through time to determine if there are any logical and causal inferences from...
Feb 14, 20221 min read
Market Structure- How Does it Impact Investment Choice
The market for both shipping investments and maritime asset management is highly volatile given its explicit (and implicit) connectivity...
Feb 7, 20221 min read
Russian Bond - Revisited!
While we published a commentary to this paper in November 2021; it was originally written in 2019, amidst a much more sanguine era, both...
Jan 31, 20221 min read
LNGC Emissions - We demand efficiency!
This week we look at a theoretical multi-stage game model, where a shipowner seeks to maximize their payout (EBITDA/NOIC) with respect to...
Jan 23, 20221 min read
Emissions - How to internalize a public good?
This week we look at emission exposure on a per day basis for the tanker segment of international commercial maritime shipping. A segment...
Jan 13, 20221 min read
Shipbuilder's Cost-Push Inflation
In this weeks' analysis by MOIC, we look at inflationary effect of different cost-input variables of shipbuilders in the Republic of...
Jan 3, 20222 min read
Maritime Asset Prices & Inflation - Causality?
In this weeks analysis we review the effect of maritime asset price relative to inflation over the last 20 years. At first glance one...
Dec 20, 20213 min read
Alternative Fuels, Increased Complexity
In this, our last weekly analysis of 2021, we highlight the discussion around LNG and other alternative fuel sources for usage in the...
Dec 13, 20212 min read
Deriving Alpha from Operating Rents
In our most recent weekly analysis, we look at the public equity segment; specifically tanker companies. By using a sample of recent...
Dec 7, 20211 min read
Inter-Asset Opportunity Ranking - "The Best of the Best"
The newest article by Maritime Opportunity Investment Corporation investigates the relationship between market risk, underwriting risk...
Nov 29, 20211 min read
Price of Risk - Corporate Beta or Asset Volatility?
A recent piece from MIT Sloan School of Management demonstrates the improper pricing of risk when using the CAPM Model "beta" adjuster...
Nov 23, 20212 min read
Fair Market Value Adjustment
When looking at maritime investment, we often see the business cycle across the segments impacted by a myriad of different variables such...
Nov 21, 20211 min read
Oil Price Volatility and the Effect Upon Russian Risk Premiums
A working paper from 2019 is particularly relevant amidst today's energy supply crisis, inflationary and expansionary fiscal policy...
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