RE: Here are reasons why an investor might hesitate31 Dec 2024 10:21
JP, I invested here after doing a tonne of research (much of it posted here if you look back a few years), and lost a fair bit of money, so when people say just do the research and you'll be fine, unfortunately that is not correct. Or, to be more specific, there's research that useful for investing decisions and research that is interesting but not useful for investing decisions.
When I invested I was warned that the share price had gone down over 95% since listing. I ignored it for the same reason you wrote, that it's the future that counts not the past. What I did not appreciate back then was that although in theory the past doesn't affect the future, in practice the past does indicate what the future will likely look like, because the same factors are in play. Now the sp has gone 98% since then (overall it's down 99.8% since listing) and there's no indication that anything has changed.
I sold out because of two things. One is the RNS https://www.lse.co.uk/rns/ORCP/green-hydrogen-project-offtake-mou-p626t7y766toiot.html that said they expected to sign an offtake agreement in December last year. That didn't happen and not a word has been said about it. Instead they appear to be distracting investors with lots of updates about NZ, which is my second reason. NZ is almost certainly worthless because the grades are below what is normally economically viable to mine. It doesn't matter how much gold there is if the grades are so low that it will cost too much to mine and process it. She did placings at over 1p and all the way down to fund NZ and then effectively sold 80% for less than she spent on it. So, the idea that ORCP is a project development company was shattered in my eyes. If she can't get a decent deal on a small asset against a small company, how on earth will she get a good deal for the much larger GH project against billion dollar companies, (if it ever gets that far)?
So I've learned that research can't just be about the size and potential of the projects, but financing and the effect this has of the share price. If anyone invested £10,000 at IPO on the basis that Thar is huge they have £20 now. Suppose Thar works out in the end, and it turns out they were right after all and Thar goes ahead and id huge, will they be pleased with themselves? The sp would need to be 500 bags from here just for them to break even. So you might think, well good job I didn't invest back then, I'll invest now and get the full rewards. But it doesn't look like anything has actually changed, so imo it's likely that anyone investing now is still way too early (at best) and will suffer from so much dilution that even if the projects do work out in the end, they still won't make much if anything.
It is of course just possible that GH will be financed soon and nebwie investors will do well. I'm not a prophet so I can't say anything for sure. But based on the information to hand as of today, I would consider that a fluke, not a solid investment decis