RE: Results link - today28 Sep 2023 09:58
DM, good question that can be answered in different ways. Will give a reasonably full version. What's missing is to remember you're exclusively talking about existing shareholders. Those same peeps would have to think the share price is going to underperform to sell. And thats notntheir view then may as well get the interest in the meantime as well. For IIs, and many others, it boils down to an option type calc. For example they expect rkh to outperform so will keep the shares when they exercise, but accept the risk of an accident in the meantime. Not exercising till the last possible day avoids that risk; captures the option value.
It's all, including the interest element, wrapped up in the option value embedded in warrants. No point in throwing that away. You just get back to IIs, and many other tax neutral holders, not conventionally exercising warrants till last possible day.
As a PI I exercised mine earlier in the year fpr CGT reasons and to move the shares into an ISA.