Trading Volume……24 Apr 2022 15:36
is a very important ingredient towards a stock’s positive share price momentum/sentiment……
So I thought I would follow up from my post of last weekend to spend some time this weekend to review Empire’s recent trading volume data and summarise the key details I see as follows:-
1. EEE has 342,323,618 total shares currently issued (btw, that’s a pretty nice tight total share count compared to many other explorers who have share counts into the billions) and they trade on both the AIM & the “under the radar”AQUIS exchanges.
2. The weekly trading volume in the last 5 weeks (takes us back to 1 week prior to the Gindalbie drill results RNS (issued on 30th March) as shown on the AIM exchange were as follows:-
- 19/4 to 22/4 (only 4 days due to BH) = 27,834,182 shares traded (8.13% of total issued shares).
- 11/4 to 14/4 (only 4 days due to BH) = 25,907,052 shares traded (7.57% of total issued shares).
- 4/4 to 8/4 = 11,051,607 shares traded (3.23% of total issued shares).
- 28/3 to 1/4 = 57,742,334 shares traded (16.87% of total issued shares).
- 21/3 to 25/3 = 1,696,248 shares traded (0.5% of total issued shares).
So WOW! in the last 4 weeks since the Gindalbie results we can see there has been 35.8% of the total issued shares traded (AIM) and prior to this in a 4 week period we would typically of seen only 1 to 2% of the total being traded. So the trading volume in the past 1 month has grown by in the order of 20 x the normal. That’s really very impressive considering we had Easter holiday.
3. Over and above the AIM exchange data we have also seen the MMs pushing plenty of trades onto the Aquis exchange notification which keeps the true total volume size of Empire under the radar from many investors who are not aware of this secondary exchange. For example in the past 4 day week (19/4 to 22/4) there were 3,806,948 shares showing as traded on Aquis which represents a further 1.11% of total issued shares.
4. Looking specifically at volume on the recent RNS issue days, we can see that the Gindalbie RNS led to the highest trading day (AIM) of 44,395,427. Interestingly the news (6th April) of the three new Cu-Au Projects only led to 4,265,196 traded but when the Pitffeld acquisition was confirmed (13th April) it led to 16,716,770 traded. News of the MD options (20th April) only led to 2,346,077 traded.
5. The completion of the Pitfield acquisition led to 5,611,863 new shares being issued to the previous owners for which RNS advised were on the market on or around 21st April. With a total of 24,371,357 shares traded on 21/4 + 22/4 I believe these Pitfield shares have already now been sold off (I noticed a number of 500,000 sells which were likely these being processed) and was probably what stopped the SP going to 2.5p+ last week. This brief overhang is likely clear now & so the SP rise can continue next week, particularly if further positive news lands.
So in conclusion we got major justified growth in trading volume and lo