RE: Weird Time22 Apr 2023 21:03
The results RNS was issued at 18:03 hours.
That is not a sign of a company holding onto results to put them out after the close. When companies do that, the RNS appears just a few minutes after the close, not 1 hour and 33 minutes later.
18:03 indicates staff working overtime to get the results out that day, having received the requested advice from the Auditors, and in the knowledge that the AGM is on Thursday next week, and that the NOMAD has advised them to release the results immediately they are completed.
The loss was already known and expected, as AFC announced in RNS on 4 April "The Company continues to operate as expected and had cash of c.£40.2 million as at 31 October 2022." so clearly it would be totally pointless to try and hide that now with a late RNS, as it's already in the market and thus priced in.
Nothing else in the results indicate any reason to hold the RNS back until after the close, in fact it's all very bullish, so definitely looks like a case of working late to get the results out ASAP.
What the market does on Monday doesn't determine whether the results are good or bad, as there's loads of scum out there willing to short anything and everything and try to blame the RNS using baseless claims, hoping a lot of investors don't fully read and understand the implications and value in the RNS.