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Magmanus_49,
There is no way the placing shares were sold forward. This is an absolutely huge placing because of the ridiculously low price. Just for comparison terms the overhang from the placing is now twice the size of the overhang from Kibo. The directors have managed to completely land themselves in the mire, and are now struggling to get themselves out of it. It looks, with the value of hindsight, that they failed to do sufficient due diligence on their prospective JV partners and wasted probably 9-12 months, and no doubt plenty of money in the process. No doubt they are considering their position on what to do about the alleged breaches of contract, and it wouldn't surprise me at all (based on what happened at Katoro) if they hoped if they said nothing everyone would forget about any compensation and the problem would go away..
This may be a situation where any shareholders that held prior to the placing will eventually get some of their money back, but it's going to take a considerable time. Buyers from the placing are nominally in profit now, so that's 162,500,000 shares potentially available to go as the price eventually rises.
I hope that some investors living locally will attend the AGM and ask the directors some of the awkward questions they deserve.
Another good RNS, 8M+ share buy, over 3%.
Some are mad they bought high, and can't buy more
MKT cap is low, so 3% is damn good buy
placing shares forward sold i suspect.
plenty of updates to follow now they have funding, mkt cap is low.
THE BOARD SHOULD BE ASHAMED. I HAVE VOTED MY 8M SHARES AGAINST RESOLUTION 3 (TO RE-ELECT MR TRAYNOR). I WOULD ENCOURAGE SHAREHOLDERS TO VOTE AND CONSIDER DOING THE SAME.
Apologies for my absence a little birdie gave me the potential heads up 2 days before the placing - regrettably it was my sell’s that dropped the sp in the run up, I didn’t say anything because I couldn’t be even 25% sure, but back in now with 2% (May take more) and feel blessed, while mindful to others less fortunate
I really think that the actions taken are for the best, and now give this worthless priced to fail £0.5 mil cap at least time and space to pull this together and allow the phoenix to rise from the ashes, MAST could well now prove to be the stock of 2024
Yes for good reason RF more or less in control, I’m personally very happy with that, buy or sell, ramp or deramp as you wish
GLA - DYOR
New TR1 holdings in company
Sinking here
Absolutely nothing to see hear!!!
Move along quietly please!!!!
30 May 2024
You were warned about LC and took no notice. Still, no doubt he will start another business with end of the rainbow type rewards which you will pile into. Remember the pied piper, Goatzee is probably that same man.
I dont doubt that RF have their fingers in many pies and some of those Pies went badly.. But..
The one big difference I see here is that MED was already on its knees in terms of the MCAP prior to RF getting involved. The MCAP is already almost "nothing" and after todays SP placing and the full RF loan is now ~5 x the current value of the company !! .. the risk / reward ratio for RF is very bad indeed.. its a terrible deal for RF should PyeBridge fail
This is what leads me to thinking that with a glass half full that if MED could get PyeBridge going at full capacity then the current MCAP has to be incorrect. For RF to extract / make a return here then MED has to succeed because the NAV wont be enough to cover the loans or the interest.
I just dont see RF wanting to liquidate MED as i think they will lose..
They might take a big chunk of MED.. but only if it succeeds !!
I feel for you guys having gone through the RF turmoil with SAR for many months now ...
In brief with SAR when they took on the funding arrangements the SP was 103.5p .... at which point we picked up a number of doomsters spouting 'death spiral' and watch this plummet ... most of us considered their spouting to be complete BS .. to our detriment .. I now wish I had listened when they started their negative rants ...
Initially RF drip-fed into the market and the SP seemed to stabilise at 80p ... but once they started offloading in larger chunks the SP really started to collapse and in the end the LTHERS and HNWI came in and bailed out the SAR BOD from their naive or incompetent RF funding decision .. but by then the placing was at 10p which also reset RF's warrants from 143p to 10p and all future shares picked up from SAR at 10p also .... so they have made a killing on SAR and have just today requested over 1 Million warrants at 10p, originally 143p
I am completely dumbfounded how any Companies still consider RF as a funding option after seeing the companies they have destroyed prior to this educational lesson;
PS : At one point many thought that RF were attempting to decimate the SAR SP in order to take over the company with a funded loan for a few pence a share ..... all just speculation but stranger things have happened
So my advice would be to look back at the SAR BB from the days when PUMA was spouting DEATH SPIRAL and look at the trend from that point and make up your own minds on what next to do .. hold or sell etc
Good luck to all and apologies that you have become entangled with RF
Regarding the other sites they may be after a site specific agreement with similar terms to riverfort/pyebridge. As the true cost of the engines and infrastructure for the site will certainly run into the millions. They won’t be cheap.
The loan is being released in stages so interest charged is only on moneys owed, not the full 4 million.
This is already priced to fail with a mc of 0.5 million. There is know sugar coating it, it doesn’t look great for the likes of me and others invested here.
But one things for sure there will be many upward spikes in the future. Until some more positive news on electric generation from pyebridge and/progress from other sites.
Kibo to cease selling for 6 months and there reduction to around 20% is positive, if your clutching at straws.
Ilovesushi,
Most investors have negative feelings about Riverfort because they usually end up creating a downward spiral in the share price of the companies with which they are involved. What investors tend to ignore is that they are a business with their own needs to create a profit. For many companies I suspect they are a lender of last resort, as they couldn't do any better elsewhere. The reason for the downward spiral in share prices is that the companies involved don't perform, and so have no alternative.
I may be unfairly critical but the balance of the original loan, which has so far not been drawn down, is around £2.4M. If Bordersley is classified by MAST as "early construction", why aren't they doing anything to get it operational. Is it not possible to do more than one thing at a time. Is the problem the MAST management, or is the problem Riverfort. Given that the company's most urgent need is the maximum revenue at the earliest possible time, it seems strange that relatively little, in terms of their overall portfolio, seems to be on the radar. As interest will be accumulated from the start of any draw down, the company may have concluded that getting Pyebridge up and running gives them the best cash profile, rather than a development that will take 9-12 months to revenue.
The problem for investors, as ever, is that the company haven't provided sufficient specific information on their plans going forward.
"Why is the loan from Riverfort only being released in stages. Don't they trust the management"? Normal logic will say one thing but reality points to another. Riverfort seems to be a specialist in giving loans then converting those loans at lower and lower prices. This seems the essence of a downward spiral and this company no doubts makes money even though supposedly they do not short. In this case they are locked up for a time. Not sure what Rivfort is up to. What I do know most of what they get involved with is company`s that have a downward spiral. Yet they benefit. AVOID any company they are financing or hold shares in. I saw this one coming when the price was double this and I suggest it was a sell, and hinted at Riverfort doing a usual diluting everyone. This place is a cesspit. DO NOT AVERAGE DOWN IN A DEATH SPIRAL. YOU COULD LOSE ALL YOUR MONEY.
Explains why the PS was held back low over the last 2 great RNSs
At least they have the funding now to progress to fair price.
Its business. happy days ahead, its oversold and under priced which is great to see.
plenty of scope of here now.
getting interesting now, was not much in , good things comes to those who wait. :)
I dont buy into the idea that Riverfort are the villans here.. clearly its the Management and companies like Riverfort take a large risk and finance dog companies like MED..
Ask yourself.. if you were asked to stump up £4M to run an almost bankrupt company with no liquid assets and a pile of debt what would you do ?
Who wants to end up trying to sell a load of old Gensets and wires..
Believe me I dont love Riverfort.. but I dont blame them either.. they will want a significant say in what happens.. they will also want their money back + change ASAP..
If MED survive and eventually dig their way out of this Mire then it was all worth it..
Like I say.. for me its still 50/50 win or lose gamble.. but if PyeBridge gets going full speed by the end of Q2 then MED has a punchers chance..
Look at SAR as a recent example of what the riverfort effect is. SP completely decimated and only now starting to recover once they are out.
@David, personally i dont expect Mast to recover quickly if at all - it still looks like a binary play to me.. but clearly "the Plan" is to get its current primary asset into play ASAP.. Pyebridge.. this is the fastest route to revenue and in my book is common sense if the company are to survive in any form.
For the record I do agree that Riverfort are likely calling the shots to some degree, as they would not take on this risk without some form of control. Is that a bad thing ? im not really sure yet.. clearly they will have their own interests first and foremost over the shareholders of Mast. (thats obvious from todays placing)
The path to any kind of recovery beyond Pyebridge will require more detail which you would hope is now being worked on in parallel to the current activities..
It is a bit of a sh*t show right now effectively a ‘back door’ placing, more dilution, warrants oh and hello btw Kibo can you stop selling for a moment so we can sell our stock we have into the market thanks. Yet again it is the loyal shareholders who get the kicking. Nice work BOD! A completely devoid of common sense deal and approach here! IMHO DYOR
3 Years since the IPO. 8p down to 0.2p. Riverfort in the mix. Are they really that much further on that 2021? Another LC special.
Normbeef,
It doesn't feel as if the company has any plan. It actually feels as if Riverfort are controlling the company rather than the directors.
Why was such a disastrous placing (for existing shareholders) necessary.
Why is the loan from Riverfort only being released in stages. Don't they trust the management?
Bordesley is in "early construction" according to MAST. There is a large balance on the loan. What are they doing?
Rochdale and Hindlip are "construction ready". Again, what is the plan.
Everything here seems to be very restrictive, and for the benefit of Riverfort rather than the existing shareholders. If it is too restrictive then MAST will not be able to advance as rapidly as shareholders expect.
Sell in May and go away. And don't by back, MAST is down and out
Agree with that, no comments from TV or Eg, perhaps looking for their rose tinted specs
Ha
Now that Riverfort is on this only one thing to expect. Steer clear of anything with Riverfort. They seem to get into companies that are on a downward spiral. Saw this coming.
Ilovesushi
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Strong Sell
Fundraise any day now26 Apr 2024 10:58
Dilution cant be far away.