RE: Help21 Jun 2024 17:37
Market cap = no of shares x price per share, so is decided by market.
Book value is agreed between auditors and board, in accordance with accounting standards.
In this case, the directors had been previously arguing the project was worth $8.898mm. The auditors will have argued that because the project had gone nowhere and had not attracted funding (without which it could go nowhere) then it was currently worth nothing. Of course if tomorrow the board secures funding, it will be written back in at at least $8.898mm, and probably more than that.
So really it’s a paper entry on the balance sheet that doesn’t really change much in the real world.
As to your last question about penalties, it has been announced that the AGM is in just over 3 weeks, at which point you and any other unhappy shareholders can vote against the re-election of the retiring board member, which is presumably our Chairman (the rest of the board being executive directors do not have to retire)