RE: RE : 29p Fair Value13 May 2022 00:21
I think many people are simply missing the point. The wording of the RNS is: "Although the Company has no immediate intentions to use this authority, this resolution is proposed by the Board to offer additional flexibility in the structuring of potential future transactions as part of the Company's global drive to seek value accretive opportunities."
"...flexibility in the structuring of potential future transactions...as part of the Company's global drive to seek value accretive opportunities." It may well be that as part of a transaction that is majorly beneficial to JLP and by proxy, us, the company from which the benefit is being acquired wants to have a share in the future upside of JLP by taking part of the payment in JLP shares. Plainly if they wanted to build a significant stake in the market this could be challenging to do and more costly. Yes, you can argue that everyone else (us) has to buy in the market and yes, that is what drives the price upward. But we as individuals have no benefiiclal assets to provide, only cash, and any organisation with such assets is in a different position to us. The RNS is NOT saying we wish to issue shares to raise working capital to carry out already proposed expansion because we are not generating enough cash to do so or can't raise finance against the balance sheet to do so, it specifically says for future transactions to execute the stated strategy of global expansion. These are two very different things and those taking a totally negative view are I believe allowing their emotions to to drag them back to the good old bad old days when we issued paper just to survive and that is explicitly NOT the case here.