RE: FE29 Mar 2018 18:32
Odey shareholdings....
As basic maths seems beyond capability....
- prior to the OO they held 10,577,466,582 shares
- the OO gave them a Basic Entitlement of 23,800,421,021 shares
- however, only 9,409,823,635 of the Basic Entitlement were not taken up allowing those who wanted to, to obtain an Excess Allocation
- this Excess Allocation was 7.9x over subscribed meaning that applicants only received 12.68% of their requested amount
- even if Odey had requested the maximum amount of Excess available (ie the difference between there Basic Entitlement and the Total Number of Shares Available 21,703,821,262) at the above allocation rate they should've got an additional 2,752,421,011 shares
- this would give Odey 37,130,311,614 shares (original holding + Basic Entitlement + Excess Allocation)
- however, they ended up with 41,604,912,988 sharers or 4,474,601,374 more than they should've. To do this would've required them to obtain ca 77% of the available Excess shares
So either the 11th January 2018 RNS is incorrect, not all shareholders are equal or Odey acquired these additional shares from someone else - I would be interested to know which applies (and if they bought them who from).