Interesting Palios family developments

To those of you unfamiliar with the Palios family, I will just say Diana Shipping (DSX), and let you get the rest of the details from the article.

At the height of the dry bulk shipping boom, 2005 - 2007, DSX was a major dry bulk player. Today, not so much. My last venture into DSX was a couple of years ago. I have very underwater DSX warrants to prove it :slight_smile:

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Just to satisfy my curiosity, I went digging into my records for DSX transactions. Turns out it was more recent that I thought.

Bought DSX in my taxable ac (three transactions - Sept 2023, Dec 2023, Jan 2024) and Roth ac (one rt bought Dec 2023, sold Mar 2024, loss -$18). I DRIPed the Dec 2023 div payout and sold the entire taxable ac position in May 2024 for a small loss ( under $90). DSX sells for ~52% of my taxable ac exit price. The DSX warrants were pitched as a “sweetener” incentive to existing shareholder. A shareholder received a DSX warrant for every X number of shares owned. The terms of the DSX warrants were, for every 1 warrant owned, buy 2 shares of DSX for a fixed price (IIRC, it was $4/sh) and get a third share free. Theoretical case of owning 100 DSX warrants. Buy 200 additional shares of DSX for $800, the shareholder would own 100 additional DSX shares with the warrant conversion. Like I mentioned in the original post (OP has a different meaning wrt DSX), I still have my DSX warrants.
To the new generation of Palios family (the two daughters of founder patriarch), two somewhat positive thoughts

  1. Standing up to George Economou
  2. Open to trying new things