RE: Share Price Action15 Dec 2017 23:22
Pom,
With regard to the increase in batch size and reducing the price point, I draw your attention to the below extract from the summary at the front of the announcement made on the 28th March this year:
"additional manufacturing process development at PSNW will be undertaken with the goal of increasing the commercial batch size for Fortacin™ by approximately threefold, with a view to lowering the unit price and meet the anticipated increase in demand following the EU commercial launch in 2017 by Recordati@
It clearly states "with a view to lowering the unit price". And as I wrote previously. In my opinion, which may not be held by others, I feel part of the reason for the delay in EU Launch was so Recordati could take advantage of this. There would be no point in them launching in Oct-Nov 2017 at one price then suddenly lowering it in March 2018, however. They are obviously banking on the EU approving the larger batch size, although I would guess in their experience, they are pretty confident this will happen since I understand it is the normal process once product approval has been given.
With respect to the discussion on SP at EU launch, as you have stated currently it is very difficult to understand the workings of the HKSX and this company. If what you have stated previously is true and many large positions were taken last year at the time of the UK launch, one could conclude that there is even less free stock available and as such the price movement could be a lot larger. Although one can also argue that the initial EU launch market size could be 5 times larger than the UK market size, given the way this share has been traded, I'm not that convinced that the traders who jump in and out of the stock will pay too much attention to this. One thing is for sure though and that is the Stock will start to be viewed a lot differently. It will no longer be considered a tradable stock but more of a long term investment with huge growth potential. That is also not forgetting, and one has to believe this time the content of the previous announcements will be followed, that the other 6 EU countries, one, two or even 3 ROW licenses will be agreed and the Macau and HK launches all happen during the course of the remainder of 2018. If all this happens, the share price should go from strength to strength and settle at a much higher level come the end of 2018. (and I mean multiples of what it is today). Then, at the beginning of 2019, it will adjust (could go either way) as actual sales figures are provided in the end of year results..... Just my opinion of course.