RE: What you on about.10 Jan 2021 02:08
Like Phoenix11 in the "Current market cap 70 millions" thread, I also sold my holding recently. Have bought and sold 3 times since May 2019 between 4.8p and 12p, most recently selling 120k shares on December 29 for 10.6p.
I didn't sell because I don't like the company. I love this company. It is, without doubt, the future.
I sold for a number of reasons. Firstly, based on charts and indicators (although finding short term tops is not so reliable when a new company has very limited historical data). The market cap also concerns me, perhaps maybe there's just a bit too much premium at present. Of course I know, if one of these companies works out, ANIC's % in said company will take the ANIC share price up 5-10 times, at the very least. But, currently, all these companies have little to no revenues, yet significant daily cash burn. So, each company is likely to continue fundraising and diluting for the next year or two and, due to ANIC's relatively small size, there doesn't seem to be a guarantee they will be able to buy in to stop their dilution every time.
Additionally, it's not so long ago they wanted to take the company private and, when they decided against it, I seem to remember something about a 2 year period where they said the placings wouldn't be offered below around 5p. Which, now the price is rising, makes me wonder why they would even consider it a possibility that a placing would ever take place below 5p at some stage in the future... Of course, maybe they were just trying to instil some confidence in to cautious investors.
Alongside that, I saw a video with Jim Mellon, from November 2020, which talks of the current portfolio as $50m but he mentions "with a view to putting a lot more in" and that, by the end of 2021, he's looking at it being $500m.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DM8IDrVtKJc&t=22m33s (at 22m30s)
"Putting a lot more in" suggests to me that he is not expecting the existing portfolio will go up 900% in a year. So, does it mean there's a massive dilution on the cards that would take the price back down sub 10p? If $100m of this additional $450m were to come from new investors, how much would that dilute the share price? Would a placing always be done based on a discount of current share price or based on NAV, if the market has become over-extended? If it were a sizeable consolidation / rights issue larger than the current market cap (in the style that Kenmare Resources did in 2016 that required me to pay much more than the current value of my in-profit shareholding in order to exercise them), would I be able to afford a multiple of the current value of my 120k shareholding in order to take up my rights etc.?
I may well have been excessively over cautious and, if there's a fundraise at 20p or 45p, I'm well aware I'll likely be paying significantly more than what I sold it for.
Good luck all who still hold and I'm sure I will be holder again for much of the company's journey.