RE: The Board and Take Over2 Oct 2018 14:27
Hi Maybach,
If you are an interested acquirer of a business what do you do? There are many answers. But you would want the t/o at the lowest possible price. How do you achieve this? You buy shares at the lowest possible price (c4p ish) and if you have a readily available supply of cheap shares (Crede, Riverfort et al) over an extended time period you mop them up. I am aware of disclosure rules but we are talking about AIM listed companies here, lighter regulatory touch.
AMC is a Russian company. Legally not but mind and management it is. I think we would all accept it operates in a different geographical, economical and commercial planet.
When a PFS is finally delivered confirming an NPV, multiples above the current trading sp, the share price will drift upwards towards this value. As the acquiring company, you already have x% of the company, so when you launch a formal takeover (agreed or otherwise) your purchase price will be averaged upwards, but you are not buying the company at 50p per share because you acquired and controlled a very healthy percentage (directly or indirectly) at a much lower price.
The pi's who make the serious money out of AMC will be the ones that stay the course through to t/o. Good luck to others who mess around at the edges.
Fanciful, maybe - Possible, yes - Probable, only time will tell. Let's hold this post and see what develops.