A case of ..........20 Aug 2020 10:36
Warrant holders performing a risk free monetisation of their placing shares ?
For example, 400,000 placing shares at 6p per share is equal to an investment of £24,000.
SP is let to rise above 17p, at which point the warrant holder sells 200,000 shares at 17p, netting £34,000, whilst at the same time retaining 200,000 shares.
Essentially this equates to them having 200,000 shares for free, and £10,000 profit in their pocket.
Why do I perceive this to be risk free ?
Well, if the share price remains above 15p for 5 consecutive days, and the warrants vest, then they can utilise £26,000 of their £34,000 to replace the 200,000 shares that they sold at 17p at a guaranteed price of 13p, the end result being still the holder of their original 400,000 shares with the added bonus of them now having £8,000 in their hip pocket.
However, if the share price doesn’t remain above 15p for 5 consecutive days, and the warrants don’t vest, then the current share price will drop to an indeterminate lower price.
This matters not to them, as they now can replace the 200,000 shares they sold at 17p at this now lower price.
At an SP of 14p that would mean that they still had their original 400,000 shares plus a bonus of £6,000, at 13p with a bonus of £8,000, at 12p with a bonus of £10,000, etc. etc.
Selling 50% of their original placement holding, whilst the sp has been above 15p, has been a no risk transaction for them, and they have been guaranteed to make money on it.
They would have been fools not to have availed themselves of that guaranteed money making option.
IMHO