RE: steve15 Aug 2021 15:36
Stevebt
EBITDA is, earnings, before, interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation.
If and when the ROM doubles, which I believe it will once we are working 24/7, then our production of concentrate will increase, hopefully by more than double, as we will be working on a higher proportion of the high grade ore in the mixture of low, medium and high grade that we feed through the plant.
If you read back through the RNS’s it tells you how many staff we have now and how many we will have when fully recruited for 24/7, the latter figure is 130, but we already had 90 staff as at 30th June, so our staff costs will not double, and neither will the rest of our opex.
Shard forecast earnings of $12 million this year, and we are on track to meet that forecast, next year they forecast $34 million, that’s over £24 million and if, as I expect us to do, we reach that forecast (which by the way is for la parilla alone) we will not have a market cap of £9 million - the average metals mining Price to Earnings ratio is approx 10, so if we only achieved half of that then 5 x £24 = £120 million and with 116 million shares in issue that’s a lot per share compared to the current 7.25p