RE: Just remembered what DW said14 Feb 2021 19:18
13.47 - I think we’re getting ahead of ourselves. First we need to find commercial oil, only then can you begin to cost out extraction versus sale. (Remember we’re our assets are it’ll be a decent capex to transport to market).
This has been gone over more times than the M1, I just don’t understand the consolidation argument? Reduce the number of shares in issue, increase the price of the share but at a premium therefore you reduce your market cap....it’s nonsense. The only companies that would consider this are those that are cash generative, or they have surplus cash at the end of a period (not necessarily annually) that they literally don’t have any better investment/operational use for...so it’s like a distribution. You could give it as dividends without the consolidation cost...difference to the end holder would be a subtle difference in tax options.
Dividends, paid in cash. would be taxable at dividend tax and they would have no option but to pay it, unless you have the ability to stipulate dividends to be reinvested (script dividends), ie paid in shares. Consolidation would be taxable at the holders option, ie if they sold shares and then it would be capital gains taxable, if not then no tax would fall due, until they do.