TW30 Apr 2019 16:26
From TW at Shareprophets .....
"Last Thursday evening I revealed in a bit of a scoop that Audioboom (BOOM) was trying to raise £8 million at 2.5p. The next morning the company was forced into a statement and said it was trying to raise £5 million at 2.5p. That was not really true - I published the deck the wretched company had sent to potential investors showing it was trying to raise £8 million. Today it fessed up that it has raised just £2.8 million with £1.2 million of that coming from the board and the Candy Brothers chucking good money after bad. What a shower…
Audioboom had tried to secure £6.8 million of new capital from non related parties it ended up getting in just £1.6 million. Even today it insisted that it was “pleased” with the result. Like hell it is.
The company insists that the cash will be used as “growth capital”. Well up to a point. As I have noted numerous times Audioboom has a propensity to understate its cashburn in trading statements by stating changes in net cash as minimal while not mentioning ballooning trade payables and we will have to wait for its full year numbers to see if it has pulled that trick yet again. I bet it has in which case a good stack of that cash raised will simply go on paying unpaid and aging invoices. What is left will fund growth ( i.e.the vanity that is sales) but will that be enough to stop the company burning cash? I doubt it. In which case the timer is very much set for the next placing.
This one flopped. Perhaps, my old pal CEO Rob Proctor, will have better luck next time? I would nit bet on it.
The shares are up a tad at 2.5p-2.6p, a minor relief rally that the, massively scaled back, placing has not flopped completely. If you are dumb enough to own these shares, sell into that rally."