EBT: "Undiluted" Confusion; Milestone Share Price Targets23 May 2026 19:56
I am somewhat baffled as to why the word “undiluted” has caused confusion this time but not when the last EBT milestones were announced in the RNS on 26/08/25 which also contained the same word. Never mind. Anyway I have sought and received clarification from 80M which, hopefully, will put to bed any confusion on this matter, and here is the explanation.
“Undiluted” in this context means measuring the market cap using the total number of shares CURRENTLY in issue, and by completely IGNORING (or EXCLUDING) any ADDITIONAL shares that might be created in the future. The number of shares that will be in issue on 27/05/26 is 5,305,076,045.
Excerpts from the RNS 22/05/26:
"Application will be made to the London Stock Exchange for admission of a total of 237,000,000 EBT Shares to trading on AIM ("Admission"), which is expected to take place at 8.00 a.m. on or around 27 May 2026. The EBT Shares will rank pari passu in all respects with the Company's existing Ordinary Shares. Following Admission, the total number of Ordinary Shares in the capital of the Company in issue will be 5,305,076,045, of which 4,878,076,045 have voting rights. Shareholders may use the voting rights figure as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, the issued share capital of the Company."
Based on current share price of 0.82p (the closing price on day of the EBT RNS 22/05/26), and the number of shares in issue of 5,305,076,045, the CURRENT market cap is circa £43.5 million. I have therefore used this as the base figure for calculating the milestone share price targets as follows:.
£100 million market cap (undiluted) = 1.88p [(0.82 ÷43.5) x 100]
£125 million market cap (undiluted) = 2.35p [(0.82 ÷43.5) x 125]
£150 million market cap (undiluted) = 2.82p [(0.82 ÷43.5) x 150]
So, 1.88p, 2.35p and 2.82p are the EBT milestone share price targets, regardless of any dilution in the future of the number of shares in issue. In a nutshell, the three milestone share price targets are set in stone.
Digressing somewhat for the moment. The RNS had this statement which sets out the share price targets for options: "The Company has today granted two tranches of options over a total of 210,000,000 new ordinary shares of the Company, 105,000,000 exercisable at £0.10 per share and 105,000,000 exercisable at £0.12 per share, for a period of four years from the date of vesting to directors, employees and consultants of the Company ("Options")."
£0.10 per share = 10p per share
£0.12 per share = 12p per share
The current share price is 0.82p. So, to achieve the levels of 10p or 12p for the options, the share price has to rise by a multiple of over 10!