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After nearly hitting $44 a week ago on promising news of clinical trials, Portage (PRTG:NASDAQ) yesterday dropped 25% from their overnight price to $25.95 on news of a public offering of 1 million new shares at $23.
Portage intends to use the gross proceeds of $23,000,000 before deducting underwriting
discounts and offering expenses (without giving effect to any exercise of the underwriters’ option
to purchase additional ordinary shares, if any), for the acceleration of its PORT-2 and PORT-3
clinical programs, to prepare the next products to enter the clinic, and for working capital and
other general corporate purposes.
Quite a bombshell with the offer price discounted so heavily.
https://www.portagebiotech.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Portage_Pricing-6.24.2021-FINAL.pdf
Encouraging results of preliminary trial has sparked a rise on NASDAQ.
Has risen from a low of $26.54 (since listing on NASDAQ) on 25th May 2021 to close at a consolidated $39.00 last night (up 48.7% for the period).
We can expect some profit-taking before the continued rise upwards on promising results of trials ... $50+ is easily possible and expected.
Our only problem with selling is it is still by matched bargains, so the spread can be very large, but once volume increases there is the possibility to state a minimum realistic price for bids for larger packages of shares and hope they are bought.
With regard to the delisting, anyone else having the following issue:
Shares are showing in my account (ii) with the prtg price/value attached, but if I try to sell any it's showing my holdings as zero instead of the shares I actually hold.
I assume it's a quirk due to the delist that will correct itself eventually, just wondering if it's affecting anyone else
thanks.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/portage-biotech-highlights-first-patient-130000034.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAFusa_aApTmEHWGxIrryguR5XSs6qr6B0fVm5sx8To6nXZ6r31V7jAVV9yFl6Jk-aANdw7v7sp4jpewUeqS9-fwL-yQkLb50bj3cTrCnsBmL-I8R3jscY_Ie9pxHgB2zNZNBn5w3SczNLufrQis9OCgpUVIqc_evX_t4Mwy6bM6T
"Precious-01 Study Trials" ... First posted on 8th April 2021
https://investingnews.com/news/biotech-investing/portage-biotech-announces-voluntary-delisting-from-the-canadian-securities-exchange/
Voluntary delisting from CSE on 21st April 2021 to concentrate on Nasdaq.
All CSE held shares will be consolidated on Nasdaq under the ticker "PRTG".
I have been informed by "Etoro" that they cannot deal Portage Biotech (PRTG) shares on NASDAQ as there is no specific bid and ask at the current volumes. As has been said before, they are mainly an over the counter share with matched bargains so is something Etoro are unable to do (at present) ... that is, until they issue more stock and become a fully-fledged share like Biohaven (BHVN) has become, with high daily liquidity.
Most of the recorded transactions so far for PRTG on NASDAQ are for parcels of 100 shares, but there is no indication of whether they are buys or sells.
SALV hopefully will re-list as soon as is practical. Rumor has it that an unlisted company is lined up, just a waiting game really.
Yes SALV has got value as pointed out of approx. 30p a share.
Not quite on Nasdaq topic but can someone clear my confusion please? I sold my Portage shares some time ago, but I also bought about 1800 SalvaRx shares . What happens to them.? Do they have any value at all? Would be grateful for help.
Many thanks
This shell has to be worth around 30p a share in Portage right now. Got 50k of these and very impatient now..lol
I am exploring the possibility of being able to deal in PRTG on NASDAQ via the "Etoro" trading platform with low expenses and easy transfer of proceeds to UK ...
Currently, "Etoro" doesn't recognise the newly listed PRTG ticker on NASDAQ, but shouldn't be long now before they update their system.
Then it will be possible to buy and sell PRTG, providing the spread isn't too large.
Whatever happens, you must download the W8-BEN form and submit it, to be able to realise proceeds to UK exempt from higher US tax charges.
https://investingnews.com/news/biotech-investing/portage-biotech-divests-portage-pharmaceuticals-limited-to-juvenescence-ltd/
Reasons for the listing on NASDAQ starting to take shape.
Could be the start of the big moves planned by Jim Mellon & Co. ... leading to an IPO for Juvenescence on the NASDAQ and/or London market.
No that quote was actually $36 to buy $23 to sell and only up to 100 shares. HL and AJ bell.
It’s still so hard to sell our Portage shares from Salvarx. Those shares which are still on CSE. Tried to sell 1k. No luck. 500. Might take several days. 250 with a spread of $33 / $24. Crazy. Then they got back and said they could only quote for 100. Anybody else tried to sell ?
Portage Biotech opened at $37.50 on NASDAQ
https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/stocks/prtg/real-time
If you want to buy American shares you need to send a completed W-8BEN form to your broker (normally they will be able to provide the form and show you how to complete it). If you don’t then your dividends and interest will suffer 30% withholding tax, rather than 15%, and some overzealous brokers may even keep back 30% of any sale proceeds if they haven’t got a W-8BEN.
You can reclaim the excess tax but be warned. This means dealing directly with America’s Internal Revenue Service so I’d recommend completing the W-8BEN to avoid having to make a reclaim. W-8BENs remain valid until the first 31 December that occurs after the third anniversary of you signing the form. So a form signed on 1 March 2021 would remain valid until 31 December 2024, and so on.
I hold the paper share certificate issued for the original number of shares I received in the sale to Portage, but this was before the 1 for 100 consolidation last Autumn. I take it I now have the reduced digitalised holding that will apply to the NASDAQ listing. The shares are normally held within a nominee account.
Apparently, should I wish to trade (sell) the shares as a UK investor, I will need a W-8BEN form to be completed and lodged with a stockbroker who deals in USA markets for which there is a registration fee to be paid (around £595).
Hopefully, we expect the SP to fly on admission, so would be prudent to have the necessary paperwork completed in time.
I think it will be done automatically by your broker. The previous conversions etc. have all been done by the broker, though I expect it might take a day or two to show in your account.
So will our Canadian shares be automatically replaced by NASDAQ registered ones come Thursday?
At current price of Portage and at last known number of shares the value is around 30p for each Salv share. There was only around £50k in cash so I imagine that’s gone. Though they did say they would only pay the BOD a token £10k a year.
What cash other than the Portage Holding did the company end up with. Cant remember the number of shares in issue to try and work out value. Chuffed with Portage and hanging on to them.
Let’s not forget that the value of Salv rises inline with Portage. This shell is currently worth $17m and will be a lot more next week. Let’s see whether we get Portage shares or if an asset is on its way. Whatever happens you can guarantee that with a few people holding massive % it will be in all of our interests.
After the public holiday on Monday (Canadian National Flag Day) th CSE markets have reopened with Portage Biotech nudging US$28 ...
More to come after the NASDAQ announcement ... expect it to fly once listed on a main market.
FFWD who has Jim Mellon involved is also rising on AIM, it has a small percentage in Portage amongst other promising acquisitions it has made (in the gaming and medical cannabis fields).
.... In the long term this is about turning cancer into a chronic disease.”
So, 5 years on, SALV is no longer listed on AIM, but the science was sold to Portage Biotech, who are now seeking a listing on NASDAQ.
What is there to say that SALV will be resurrected as a vehicle for Portage Biotech to be also listed on the main London market at many times the value it was last seen ... Jim Mellon has a history of engineering this sort of thing, as can be seen from what happened with 3Legs Resources.
Interesting to see how far we have come from the RTO of 3Legs Resources to obtain a listing on AIM:
This is what Wiseacre posted on ADVFN 21/03/2016
wiseacre: An experimental cancer drug discovered at Oxford university is the focus of a new UK biotech company to be listed in London this week led by two veterans of Bristol-Myers Squibb, the large US pharmaceuticals group. SalvaRX has been set up with backing from Jim Mellon, the Isle of Man-based investor, as an incubator for early-stage cancer drug developers. More On this topic Call for tighter controls for drug trials Anjana Ahuja Ditching your birth identity Immune cell breakthrough in cancer fight Bioelectrics industry is one to watch IN Pharmaceuticals Valeant is the latest troubled roll-up to unravel Witty’s tenure at GSK divides opinion Analysts bullish as Valeant struggled Witty defends GSK strategy to the end Its first asset is iOx Therapeutics which is working on treatments using so-called natural killer T-cells to attack tumours. SalvaRX’s chief executive, Ian Walters, and its chief scientific officer, Robert Kramer, were both senior members of the team that put BMS at the forefront of a new class of cancer drugs called immunotherapies. These medicines, which harness the immune system to destroy tumours, are widely seen as the most important cancer breakthrough for decades and have been tipped to generate tens of billions of dollars in annual sales for the pharma industry. SalvaRX will scour academia and the biotech sector for novel immunotherapies and deploy capital and expertise to develop them. The company’s shares are due to begin trading on London’s junior Aim market on Tuesday after a reverse takeover of 3Legs Resources, a shell company backed by Mr Mellon which was previously engaged in a failed search for shale gas in Poland. Mr Mellon, whose wealth was estimated at £850m in last year’s Sunday Times rich list, made his fortune in mining but also invests in life sciences. SalvaRX raised just under £2m in a share placement as part of its reversal into the Aim shell and Dr Walters said the company planned a more substantial fundraising with institutional investors in due course. See Today's FT: The company owns 60 per cent of iOx with the rest held by Oxford university and Ludwig Cancer Research, a global network of leading cancer scientists. IOx’s so-called iNKT agonist drugs have shown promise in animals and Dr Walters said the first clinical trials in humans would start soon, financed by Oxford. Dr Walters acknowledged that cancer immunotherapy had become a crowded field but insisted there was still plenty of untapped science — especially in Europe — beyond the “checkpoint inhibitors” that have attracted most investment so far. “Eighty-five per cent of the industry is focusing on checkpoints and antibodies. We are focusing on the other areas where there is a lot of white space,” he said. “The science is advancing exponentially so there is so much more to come.....
PORTAGE BIOTECH PROVIDES RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT UPDATE AND ANNOUNCES NASDAQ LISTING APPROVAL
NewsfileFEB 11, 2021 08:00 AM EST
-- Company to advance three clinical-stage programs in pipeline --
-- Portage has received approval and is preparing for NASDAQ listing --
Toronto, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - February 11, 2021) - Portage Biotech Inc. (CSE: PBT.U) (OTC Pink: PTGEF) ("Portage" or the "Company") today announced its 2021 research and development goals, including advancing three of its pipeline assets through clinical trials during the upcoming year. Portage also announced that it has received approval from the NASDAQ Capital Market ("NASDAQ") to list its common shares on the NASDAQ exchange, and expects to commence trading February 25, 2021 under the symbol "PRTG."