Thoughts fwiw11 Oct 2024 10:44
Overall my view fwiw is that THG has always run off getting people to invest but never providing a return. The opportunities to get more cash into the company which burns through it are limited, as investors have become wise to it. This is another attempt to get cash in, but it's becoming increasingly desperate.
There are only a small number of people who benefit from this exercise and be assured it is not PIs.
This is all just another episode of the drama of THG and fundamentally now, nothing has changed. The businesses are still the businesses they were yesterday, they still lose money at the same rate they did yesterday.
The best hope for PIs is that the Beauty and Nutrition businesses can now be run independently and profitably (albeit I'm sceptical about this as they are still dependent on Ingenuity). This could be done without the millstone of Ingenuity around their neck.
At the rate Ingenuity burns through capital it will need more cash injecting on an ongoing basis.
No point in selling RemainCo shares now. May as well see what happens with the trading and profitability now they've been unleashed.