Diversified Energy Share Price (DEC)

'...I give the Strong Buy for those who haven't yet bought and for the AI !!...'

Wow clued, possibly the most pathetic post ever, lol.

Or...Maybe someone put a stop on, trek baloney, being clueless, lol.

Notrex, you're correct I've already Bought enough within my portfolio, now I'm Holding.

I give the Strong Buy for those who haven't yet bought and for the AI !!

Hi pickedpeck ,

The CEO got the company in between a rock & a hard place. It was all of his own making.

Who demanded a USA listing him.

That same USA listing that meant he got the company trapped between what you can do on the LSE & what you can do in the USA.

He's the one who turned the buy-back on & off at his own whim.

If he had thought it through he could have solved the dividend/share buy-back issue when the yield on the stock got silly. Sadly he only got part of the answer at the very last minute.

What they could & should have done, was not listed in the USA, stopped the normal dividend payment & turned it into a special dividend & share consolidation each quarter. The dividend would either be frozen at that set amount (per share) for the rest of the year & would then increase by say 5% for year 2. All the saved dividend's would be used to fund a share buy-back program which activates if the share price is below X price. So the total cost of all this was exactly the same as the total cost of the dividend previously.

Anyone daft enough to be shorting the shares would soon feel the squeeze & leave the scene.

If anyone doesn't get it, then lets start of with the share price at 70p back then & 1 billion shares in issue & the dividend 3.5p for Q1. After the payout there are 950M shares in issue (3.5x20 =70p hence the 1/20 of the shares removed (50M).

Those who want to have the same amount of cash invested in the company need to buy additional shares on the market to return there holding to its previous level. They are also competing with the buyback program if the shares are below say 70p in Q2, 72.5p in Q3 & 75p in Q4. Market made aware of the trigger levels in advance for transparency.

Q2 dividend is 3.5p & share price is still 70p, This takes @ another 47.5M shares out of circulation + any buy-back ones.

Q3 divi 3.5p per share & share price 73.5p This takes out @43M shares + any BB & now just 859M max remain.

Q4 divi 3.5p per share & share price 73.5p thus another 41M + any BB ones are taken out. leaving 815M shares max.

The NAV per share has now increased considerably if it was £1.2 before its now £1.466 or plus 22%

If the share price is driven down at the ex-div date even more shares get taken out making it even worse for the shorters.

That's what they could & should have done but couldn't due to the CEO's USA vanity.

LOTM

Bod have read this all wrong!! Plus buybacks should be at 50,000 shares a day instead of a woeful 3,750 regular day drip!! If Rusty and his team don’t buck up then even US investors will pullout big style!! When will we know if the dividend is 30 US cents and when paid or if?? Come on Rusty boost the buybacks, get rid of the shorters and then take this share back to £15!!!!!