"I note from the filing SUIP is (albeit slowly) paying down debt and there is this interesting tidbit...
Supplement disclosure of non cash investing and financing activities:
Reduction of note in connection with share recission
$500,000
My hunch is either he is looking to do exploration OR! he is prettying up the shell to flog it. Hard to tell yet."
SUIP management has been pretty shareholder friendly from the perspective of a shell investor, IMO. Debt and expenses have been kept relatively low up to this point. The only significant amount of debt the shell had in its history was a $200K loan (convertible at 10 cents per share) from the CEO when the shell was spun off. The CEO decided not to make the conversion, which helped maintain the low share structure.
That "$500,000" you referenced was the $500K convertible investment/note that SUIP purchased a couple of years ago.
For historical/background purposes: Back in 2008, the CEO invested $1.5M and 2 other people each invested $750K (total of $3M) in SUIP. Part of the new business plan was for SUIP to make investments in other companies. The first investment was the purchase of a $500K convertible note in an electronics-related company. Unfortunately the timing of the investment turned out to be particularly bad -- about 3 months or so before the global credit markets collapsed.
This is a snippet of comments I had about this from post #36.....
Part of the reason why I accumulated a large position in SUIP goes beyond its attractive valuation and management's handling of a difficult situation. That $3M investment and attempt at starting a new business direction was a little bit of an eyebrow raiser for me because, IMO, it showed that management may have some pretty interesting connections.
If you look through SUIP's filings you will notice that one of the individuals who participated in that $3M investment was "Xuding Jiao". I'm fairly confident that this person is in fact "Jiao Xuding", who is Chairman/Founder of Copower Enterprise Group (involved in financing/investments and oilfield services in China), and Chairman of SCP Oilfield Services.
He is a picture of Jiao Xuding last year at a conference in Europe, discussing natural resources in China.....