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Mentor Capital, Inc. reports developments as an OTCQB public energy company focused on classic energy assets, including oil and gas, coal and uranium. Company updates commonly address acquisitions of royalty interests, including West Texas Permian Basin oil and gas participations that provide revenue interests without direct operating-expense responsibility.
Recurring news also covers Mentor Capital's balance-sheet positioning, gold bullion holdings, Series Q Preferred Shares, common-stock repurchases, insider open-market purchases, and cash deployment following completed asset sales. The company's releases frame its public-market structure as a vehicle for adding energy assets, supporting royalty or operating partners, and managing capital through cash, gold, preferred stock, common stock, debt or other securities.
Mentor Capital (OTCQB: MNTR) has successfully avoided the new 39% Swiss gold tariff announced by President Trump through its prior strategic gold investments. The company's gold position represents approximately 80% of its total stock market valuation, while its cash-like and energy assets account for an additional 100% of market capitalization.
CEO Chet Billingsley has increased his personal stake by 340,000 shares in 2025, noting that the company's book value per share is 248% higher than the current market price. The company uses gold as a temporary placeholder for Series Q Convertible Preferred Stock investments, which have appreciated from $10,000 per share in 2018 to $20,843 per share as of March 2025.
Mentor Capital (OTCQB: MNTR) announces that its Core Holdings supporting issued Preferred Shares are now 100% backed by gold bullion, valued at $100,928 per kilogram. The company's Series Q Preferred Shares, initiated in June 2018, have delivered an average 11.03% compound annual return over nearly seven years.
The gold backing serves as a transitional holding, allowing for strategic rotation into energy assets. When suitable energy projects are selected, they will replace gold in the Core Holdings through ledger transactions. Currently, Mentor's safety-focused asset allocation includes:
- Gold: 10%
- Short-term treasuries: 10%
- Oil and gas commodities: 42%
- Cash: 4%
The Series Q Preferred Shares feature a 5% conversion fee to Mentor Common shares, with the current conversion rate set at 10.5 cents per common share for September 17, 2024. Since announcing the Mentor Classic Energy Index in May 2023, the company's common share price has more than tripled.
Mentor Capital (OTCQB: MNTR) has expanded its Permian Basin oil and gas portfolio by acquiring eight additional royalty interest lots in an all-cash transaction. The purchase increases Mentor's classic energy sector assets by 27.5% on a cost basis. The company now participates in three major Permian Basin pooled projects, encompassing approximately 131 producing wells plus development opportunities.
The royalty streams provide revenue from oil and gas production without responsibility for production expenses. The wells utilize advanced techniques including multi-leg horizontal and directional drilling with lateral lengths of 2-3 miles. Following this acquisition, Mentor's classic energy assets (oil, gas, coal, and uranium) amount to 10.92 cents per share, with 21,686,105 shares outstanding.
Mentor Capital (OTCQB: MNTR) has acquired 25.127 net royalty acres in a 71-well pooled project located in the West Texas Permian Basin through an all-cash transaction. The purchased royalty stream equals 12.5% of oil and gas revenues with no expense obligations.
Current production from Mentor's portion averages 10 barrels of oil and 24,000 cubic feet of natural gas per day, based on six-month records. The overall pooled project generates approximately $1,000,000 in daily oil and gas production.
The project includes 16 undeveloped well locations in the Dean and Wolfcamp formation, pending development by Diamondback E&P These wells are expected to utilize multi-leg horizontal and directional drilling with 2-3 mile lateral lengths. This acquisition increases Mentor's classic energy assets to 8.1 cents per common share, with 21,686,105 shares outstanding.
Mentor Capital (OTCQB: MNTR) reported Q3 2024 results with a closing share price of $0.056. The company received a post-quarter subsidiary divestiture payment of $0.048 per share, bringing total cash holdings to $0.121 per share. The company's book value stands at $0.135 per share, down from $0.159 at 2023 year-end. Mentor Capital is focusing on classic energy sectors including uranium, coal, oil and gas, seeking partners who could benefit from up to $2M cash investment. The company has completed significant share repurchases, retiring 2,855,712 shares at an average price of $0.058 during the first nine months of 2024.
Mentor Capital, Inc. (OTCQB: MNTR) has announced a significant stock repurchase program, buying back 2,855,712 shares, which represents 11.6% of its previously outstanding stock. This marks the company's third stock buyback, aimed at returning cash from operations and business sales to shareholders. Notably, Mentor Capital is debt-free and holds net cash and equivalents approximately double the combined share price of all remaining outstanding shares.
The company is actively seeking to invest its funds in profitable private fossil fuel, uranium, and related companies or their royalties. Mentor Capital encourages owners of such energy ventures interested in public market participation to contact their senior management directly.
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