RE: Let's see what tomorrow brings.12 May 2021 08:14
Personally, I think it’s a carp announcement which is currently being reflected by todays SP and the current 3 to 1 sell/buy ratio.
1. Why on earth would they put Venturex as the first item??? It may be doing well, but given the company's strategy since 2015 as a Life Science investment vehicle is to offload legacy investments and move forward concentrating in the new and different sector, it is certainly sending the wrong message regarding the BOD/CEO/chairman's abilities as experienced business people to existing and prospective shareholders since they cannot keep to their trumpeted values and strategy.
2. That said. they now also intend to take up the offer of further investment in a legacy stock which is in total contrast to the company's vision "To be Hong Kong’s leading healthcare and life sciences investment enterprise. Its aim is to build a portfolio of late-stage healthcare and life sciences-related investments and commercialise them through ‘out-licensing’ to other strategic pharmaceutical partners". Surely if they are considering making further investments, they should be taking part in ANIC’s yesterdays announced placing? What on earth is the purpose of changing the company name to distance itself even further from the legacy investments at the end of the month if they continue to invest in legacy investments ?…. WTF. It certainly makes the paragraph within the YE results appear to be nothing less than complete and utter BS.…
“The Board considered that the change of name from Regent Pacific Group Limited to
Endurance RP Limited reflected the evolution of the Group’s business from the Company’s initial public offering in 1997 through to the present day. Since 2015, the Group had become increasingly focused on healthcare, life sciences and wellness, punctuated by the acquisitions of Plethora on 9 March 2016 and, more recently, DLI on 14 December 2020. Endurance RP Limited was, in the Board’s opinion, reflective of the Group’s current and anticipated investment focus and business, and the Board considered that it more accurately conveyed the current and future direction of the Group’s business, being in the healthcare, life sciences and wellness sectors. The new name would provide the Company with a more appropriate corporate image and identity which, the Board believed, would benefit the Company’s business development”
3. And yet still no ref to the ATO payment which Venturex was announced as being earmarked for. Still no explanation why the ATO allowed for the deferred 50% payment. Surely this in itself attracts interest payments. The ATO wouldn’t be doing their job properly if they were not charging any???
4 Amazing, but not unexpected, yet further delay of the Taiwan launch, which is now a couple of years after a license agreement had been made. It’s very easy to blame C-19 for the total incompetence for something that should be a relatively simple for a company like Orient..