The latest Investing Matters Podcast episode featuring Jeremy Skillington, CEO of Poolbeg Pharma has just been released. Listen here.
I was referring to their Twitter page coming alive with regular posts being made when it hadn't been touched for years.
I believe this is a decent company and I believe it is undervalued, even factoring in political and geographical uncertainty. The problem is, the market is broken.
I'm not arguing that the company is bad, or that it isn't undervalued currently, I was just speculating as to what the board could be up to taking into account their recent communication to the market.
Relatively speaking there was a lot of PR compared to what went before. Didn't you find the 26p target at least slightly rampy?
I wouldn't be surprised to see the company raise funds around the 2p-3p level. The PR machine was in overdrive leading up to the RNS which got me a bit suspicious. Now they're having a behind closed doors call for the brokers clients. I could be wrong but it all seems a bit fishy to me.
They could of course secure funds via other means but the fact they were so interested in pumping the market the last few weeks makes me wary. The 26p target was a bit of a shameless ramp, let's be honest.
Not knocking the company by the way, they've done fairly well all things considered, and I think they could do much better in the coming years but I've been burnt too many times not to read the red flags when they're sent up.
Big news and profit is always 3-5 years away in this game, especially with characters like AS, unfortunately 3-5 years is like the speed of light in that as quick as time flies you never seem to catch up to it in this game.
A lot of us knew how this would go after the "offer" announcement. We all predicted the discounted placing and now it slips further with no more updates about the "offer".
The whole of AIM has become one big joke. No wonder people are investing abroad or in other assets now.
I must say, it's extremely curious how they got an unsolicited offer just before they ran out of cash.
Maybe the company that made the offer is one of those fine upstanding companies oozing with a good Christian business ethics. It's so gracious of them to put themselves at a huge disadvantage by making an offer for a company that was weeks away from being stony broke. They could have waited a month until RENX was up for grabs for next to nothing but they went ahead and did them what was moral and righteous. (For people who didn't quite pick up on it, I'm being sarcastic)
Unlike Updg02 I recommend shareholders fight tooth and nail here. What has happened to this stock is not in any way normal.
The more of you that report this to the necessary regulators the better.
What has occurred is nothing short of disgusting and the rules of this asylum deny me the right to use more suitable words to describe all the parties involved in this farce.
I for one will not give up, and I for one will not be sitting here for a few years waiting for the crumby board, the brokers and various other parasites to finish playing us.
Kick, scream and shout until the swine's either listen or or someone else is. WE HAVE A LEGAL CASE HERE, DON'T FORGET THAT.
It's a total disgrace.
The dirty dealing couldn't be more out in the open and nobody cares. A filthy rotten world we live in now.
I have plenty of words but I can't use them here.
HL are trying to absolve themselves of responsibility. They chose to use HSBC for this process and that has cost shareholders a lot of time and money. As the shares have not been delivered in a timely fashion, shareholders now have a case for legal action and compensation in my estimation. I suspect it is a case that shareholders would likely win if they are willing to see it through.
Strange how the brokers and the company have no desire to elaborate on what "complicated" means. Almost as if they have no justification for any of this without incriminating themselves.
I share your astonishment at what has been allowed to occur here Ollie.
Remember that supposedly responsible parties signed off on this deal. The terms of the deal have not been met at any point as far as I can tell which you would think opens the door to a potential legal challenge from any party with enough grit and determination to follow through. Brokers also have a duty of care to protect holders and do what is best for their clients which has not happened either, not to mention the behaviour of the board itself.
It would be the ultimate tragedy if shareholders were expected to shoulder the brunt of the damage brought about by such a blatant disregard to reasonable business practices and market etiquette.
What has happened here is beyond being just a bit naughty in my honest opinion and as you say Ollie, it deserves serious investigation by the authorities at the very least.
It all depends who's manipulating it and whether the manipulation is coming from the inside, outside or both. The current situation suggests we may have invested in gross treachery.
What did you ask him?
So from that we can gather they are probably still working on something which is likely what's causing the collapse in share price.
More chance of bouncing a wet bag of dogshzit
We had relatively high volume yesterday and the share price was dragged all the way back down to where a never ending supply of shares want it to be. Hmmmm, now let me think. It's almost as if once it gets down to a certain level, the selling stops altogether. It's almost as if there is a massive amount of shares being sold all the way down to the price they were bought at. If that's the case, it's as if they were purchased lower price than this stock has ever traded at. Now what could cause such a thing I wonder?
Saying this offers a great opportunity involves taking the company at there word and only concentrating on what they are telling us and showing us. You'll recall we all did that a few months ago and have since discovered there were a few things they weren't telling us. The exact same thing is happening again, but you think they're not hiding anything this time as the SP does the exact same thing it did in the UK after they announced a deal that should triple investors money back in April?
Ignoring what's going on and only choosing to believe what news the company wants you to hear while there is massive selling yet again, is like opening a door with a sign on it that reads "All Good Stuff In Here" whilst ignoring the blood seeping from beneath it and the screams of agony emanating from the other side of it.
A company that requires holders to keep averaging down every five minutes, not through unforeseen circumstances but through sheer greed and self important decision making is a company that will never benefit shareholders. If they are willing to do this on day one to loyal shareholders, imagine what they're willing to do in years to come.
The company is indeed in danger of diluting. Why do you think the share price is where it is?
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