This reminds me of 201528 Oct 2018 13:07
RNS dated 13th July 2015 says
“In addition, the Company announces the issue of 133,333,333 new ordinary shares via a placing at 4.5p per share to raise £6 million before expenses to provide additional working capital and funding for future capital expenditure and investment.”
They also continue “The Company intends to raise additional funds prior to first oil and for Phase 2 and Phase 3 development. The additional capital expenditure for Phase 1 is expected to be financed by way of a non-dilutive debt facility. The Company is in advanced discussions with regard to such a facility and will announce details of this once secured.”
http://www.lse.co.uk/share-regulatory-news.asp?shareprice=MXO&ArticleCode=509p6uoh&ArticleHeadline=Investment_In_Near_Term_Production_Asset__Placing
Well that was complete rubbish and reminds me of the carp the are issuing now. So in just over 3 years, the SP has gone from 4.5p to 0.09p - a loss of 98% and what do they have?
Haven’t done any non dilutive funding for phase 2 and cannot afford to continue unless they now dilute the project to find additional funding partners to help continue to finance going forward.
But looking at the last report, as of 30th June they had cash of £94k with receivables of just £31k but with HUGE payables are £2,244k - these figures will now be worse 4 months later here in October.
Now in theory if wti stays where it is, the revenue should be around £1.5m for around 6 months but even though the Directors wages are to be paid in shares, this net revenue from the placing (~£920k) will not cover the last 4 months of administrative expenses or the difference in the receivables & payables showing over £2.1m short. This raise I cannot even justify it to keeping the lights on - next raise will be in January in my view much much lower. Not even worth a trade as what info can they put out to get a new spike? I cannot think of one.
Placees will be caught out yet again by SO and the BODs. They will not dilute the project in my view to any benefit to MXO shareholders. Feel with the costs involved, I feel they will struggle to find any partner but if they do, MXO shareholders will be devastated.
They hope to drill in 2019, where they still currently have no money but the Operator plans to increase production from 3,300 bopd to 8-12000. Let us assume they achieve 9,900bopd in 12 months time.
Assuming MXO can keep getting additional dilutive funding to dilute the shareholders even further to get to that stage, to find a partner to provide funding to phase 2, they may have to reduce their interest to say 2% at best.
This will generate a yearly revenue of 495bopd to the new JV where MXO will still only get 148 bopd - so worse off.
Trouble is, the amount of dilutive funding to current shareholders has not stopped here even before they dilute the project again (if they do), there will more than twice the amount of shares in issue compared to now.
This is a company in big t