RE: What's Happening?3 May 2023 10:43
Buy back appears to have stopped or paused. Makes no sense, as they can buy up to £2.8M from 29 March 2023 and ending no later than 30 June 2023, yet they are on average buying £30k worth. They wont even make a dent at the rate they are going. So far, MBH hold 604,000 shares in treasury, having bought about half of those since recommencing the BB. Numbers in thousands: 27,28,29,30,32,36,38,39,40,9,14 = 322k.
Hopefully they buy a similar amount in May and June, that would get near to 1.2M shares in treasury, which still wont be much over 1% of the company. It doesn't feel like they are trying to increase shareholder value IMO. I expect they will buy little and slow all the time the market is lackluster, this could go on for the rest of the year?
Lets not forget that yesterday they have issued 985,407 options, 30% more than they have managed to buy back so far.