RE: Supply and Demand4 Aug 2023 20:03
My assumption is that they sought advice before doing this. They must have said "we've got loads of good news coming and we don't want the news to fall flat because there are constant fears of funding issues." So they've either chosen this a way to fund personnel whilst waiting for the other funding to come through.
So who's advising them? Surely they are not winging it? This is why it sounds like desperation because surely the advisor would have said "so you could choose this option that's known as a 'death spiral'" because they had no choice and figured it was the best of a bad situation. If that's no true and the advisor convinced them this was perfectly fine they they need to be fired.
I reckon they also have offers on JV but the evidence they've provided so still warrants too much risk, and so the offers are probably small at this point to take into account that risk. Otherwise acceptance of lowball offers would also impact the share price and shareholder sentiment.
So, either it was a last resort, in which case keep calm and carry on. Or the board need to find an advisor or a better one. I'm inclined to believe it was the former, last resort.
The share price seems to have bottomed and if that Canadian money comes through they can proceed for some time and hopefully this will be a distant memory. They do have to do something to ensure the share price doesn't drop on news and it all depends on what options they really have. The market is just not normal and hasn't been for a long while now. It might require some extreme measures to stay afloat