Correction8 Jul 2018 11:35
Morning all
I posted something about the amount of shares David Fraser bought last week but when questioned by someone on Twitter about it my maths I was a little out and it did not really do him full justice. Here's the correct maths:
*) Annual Salary = 75,330 Euros = £66,636
*) Shares bought on Wednesday = 2,000,000 @ 1.3 pence = £26,000
*) Shares bought by exercising options on Friday = 2,666,667 @ 0.5 pence (granted in Jan 2017) = £13,333.34
*) Total = approx £40,000 shares bought versus an annual salary after tax of £47,000
So he has actually committed more than I suggested to the company if you look at this as a percentage of his annual salary. In my estimate, now knowing anything about his financial interests away from the company, he is pretty much working full time only for stock for a year which has got to be a massive show of support. This is also ignoring the other directors who have also committed cash to the stock on Friday.
Let's see what next week brings but I am very much looking forward to the next few announcements as David Fraser and the other directors did not need to buy stock / cash in options last week and whilst they can't know the full results they clearly know more than all of us and I don't believe they would have parted with the amount of money they have relative to annual salary if they did not expect some very good news.
I also have an email from the chairman saying "Until we have fully achieved our objectives I would not expect any board member to sell a single share...." So that should tell you something too.
Let's see what the stock supply looks like this coming week as Fridays late tick up suggested that we were about to move upwards. As you know I felt the placing price was too low but I bought some more last week on the market in addition to buying stock in the placing.
We have been waiting a long time to hear about ST and also the M2 results where we got the initial assays 2 months ago. It's only a few weeks until we find out and I can't wait!