Industrial Services of America: Tiny Liquidation, Assets Sold to Nucor Sub

Another small personal account type idea:

Industrial Services of America (IDSA) is a nanocap ($9MM market cap but trades on the NASDAQ) metal recycling and auto salvage business headquartered in Louisville, KY doing business as ISA Recycling.  On August 19, the company announced the sale of substantially all of their assets to River Metals Recycling, a subsidiary of the large steel producer Nucor Corporation (NUE), for $23.3MM and following the sale, the dissolution of the company with proceeds being distributed to shareholders.  IDSA's balance sheet is a bit of a mess and the company was facing de-listing, but following the liquidation, IDSA expects to distribute $1.15-$1.35 per share, with the stock trading at ~$1.10 that's an attractive 13.5% spread to the mid-point.

The sale is expected to close late 4th quarter or early 1st quarter 2020, IDSA will likely need to reserve some cash following the sale to handle any final wind down expenses and other contingencies but I would expect the bulk of the distribution to happen alongside the asset sale with River Metals.  River Metals is a subsidiary of The David J Joseph Company which is Nucor's scrap metal recycling business, they're in the same business as IDSA so this deal makes plenty of strategic sense, clean tuck-in transaction.  IDSA is heavily owned by insiders including over 20% of the shares owned by the former CEO's family trust, perhaps the family was disinterested and wanted to cash out?  IDSA shareholders will need to approve, but again, it is a fairly tightly controlled company.  It's worth mentioning there is also a closing contingency around a storm-water drain, hard to handicap that.  Anyway, seems like an attractive situation, any thoughts welcome.

Disclosure: I own shares of IDSA