Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Leucadia Files 13-d on AmeriCredit

Leucadia (LUK) just disclosed in an SEC filing updated holdings in AmeriCredit (ACF)

From the filing:
"As of February 27, 2008, the Reporting Persons may be deemed to beneficially own collectively an aggregate of 30,361,440 shares of Common Stock, representing approximately 26.5% of the shares of Common Stock presently outstanding. All percentages in this Item 5 are based on 114,599,921 shares of Common Stock outstanding as of January 31, 2008, as set forth in the Company's Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended December 31, 2007."

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4 comments:

Lamar said...

How do you figure this buy?

What do they see here?

Todd Sullivan said...

lamar,

ACF deals in auto loans. people are far more willing to walk away from a home now than a car. they can rent and apartment, they need their car to get to work..

Anonymous said...

I'm not so sure that people are more willing to walk away from a home loan than a car loan.

Entering the repossession lane
Default rate soars on auto loans in pattern likened to mortgage crisis

http://tinyurl.com/39k2lw

Paul T.

Todd Sullivan said...

paul,

the article says 11% of subprime auto loans are in some form of defaults while 20% of subprime mortgages are...

translation: a greater percentage of folks are going to lose homes than cars...

i have not checked it out but i believe ACF has very little exposure to this market....

 

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