RE: Todays trades on HK roll-out21 Jan 2021 02:31
David Webb's Webb-Site Reports are always worth reading. In NOV 2018 he mentioned 41 endangered stocks
https://webb-site.com/articles/patients.asp . Just checking a few of them this morning and they are still trading which is clearly positive.
Another in depth article about the new listing rules here - https://webb-site.com/articles/adverseopinion.asp
Squeeze-outs
For some controlling shareholders, the prospect of a mandatory suspension and delisting would be music to their ears. It would put them in a position to buy out the minority shareholders, now deprived of a market for their shares and the disclosures required by the Listing Rules, at a knock-down price. The controller would avoid the normal delisting approvals needed under Rule 2.2 of the Takeovers Code, even if the company is still regarded as a "public company" by the SFC.
HKEX's conflict of interest
Finally, let's not ignore the financial interest that HKEX has in these proposals. It makes the vast majority of its monopolistic profit on the trading, clearing and settlement fees of larger listed companies in HK and the derivatives linked to them. From HKEX's perspective, small troubled companies are loss-makers, because they consume a disproportionate amount of regulatory staff-hours relative to the overall fees they generate. Ranked by size, on the Main Board at the end of September, 344 companies (18% of 1881) accounted for 90% of the market value. Including GEM and Secondary listings, 362 companies (16% of 2268) accounted for 90% of the market value. Their proportion of turnover and transaction fees is even greater than 90% because the market-value figure includes many large H-share issuers, most of which have nearly 100% free float (the mainland A-shares not being counted towards market value).
The regulatory staff-hours consumed by small companies in financial or other difficulties can be dispensed with if they are quickly delisted rather than rehabilitated, thereby boosting profits for HKEX and its shareholders, including the Government. Put simply, it is cheaper to kill the patients than to cure them.
BTW: BUY depth looking good this morning and we are back at 20c, I really hope we can hold the line and move up from here.
Heimdal