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Hey mike33 what's your real name? It's Arnab Basu isn't it! Ha ha you've been found out! Dude, get on the phone and do some cold calling! Please try to make a profit! My life savings depend on it!
Also please take a salary cut.
Ha ha the SP is now LOWER than the rights issue offer price
Basu is on £270K per annum. That's what I've looked up. That's a fortune. Considering how many years he has been at the helm, he probably has amassed quite a small fortune. Now, I wonder where he is investing that money. Many an ISA or funds, but not in his own company - he just bought a small £5k worth of the new placing.
As part of the placing he should offer he should offer to take a salary cut to say £70k which is still vastly more than what most people are on and still a good salary, and take the £200k in shares. That would incentivise him. I'm amazed shareholders haven't already demanded this and for the rest of the management. Get this company profitable, we will pay you a good salary but not a fortune ... Until it's profitable. I can't believe the guy is on £270k. It's a joke.
As for whether it will ever be profitable is the question. They may have great products but if it costs you £100 to make with all debt, research, salaries etc but you sell it at £99 then it's not an investment.
I really hope Kromek proves me wrong as it's a great UK company. This placing should be the last and definitely be profitable after but they have said that before. And the ramping with the good news first, that's shameful.
Too many UK companies just get sold out to Americans. Management taking too much salary and willing to sell at the earliest opportunity. We need people who give a ... about the UK and creating successful profitable companies so people can have jobs here in the UK.
Don't buy this until you see a massive directors purchase by Basu and co. I'm talking where he buys £1M+ mortgages his house and gets personal loans out. The whole board. Until these Muppets have some skin in the game I'm not buying. I have an alert on to see directors purchases.
Look people don't buy any more than £5k which is what Basu bought and he's the CEO. And he was probably forced to buy the rest of the board so it looks ok. Buy seriously, £5k? That's pathetic. Unless you know more than the CEO.
I think he bought 100k shares, e.g. £5K.
Which puts people who buy more than £5k in the absurd situation where they are buying more shares than the CEO. Stop being naive people!
It's totally insulting that Basu just bought a token £5K worth of the new placing. That's totally pathetic. The guy is the CEO and even he doesn't think his own company is a good investment.
If it was this time on the cusp of greatness, the whole board would have mortgaged their houses, and taken out loans and bought as much shares as they could. As yourself, they know the company more than us. Why wouldn't you do that if you knew it was on the cusp of greatness? I've looked at the holdings the directors have and unless I'm mistaken, it's hardly anything. It says 0% for all of them (someone correct me if I'm wrong).
I can't believe ST has wrote another article encouraging more small investors as cannon fodder to throw their hard earned life savings at this outfit.
The definition of madness is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. How many rights issues do you think Kromek needs to be a going concern?
I see that the market this time didn't buy the ST write-up. SP is still falling. Crying wolf once too many times on this "cusp of greatness" line.
If Joe Biden announced they were putting a £1 Tillion order, it wouldn't budge the share price. In fact it will probably go down as Basu has primed the market to expect a rights issue after good news on the "we need more money to ramp up" line.
Just sell, take the loss and move on. Basu is a total idiot and will destroy your money
I've sold all my holdings at a massive loss. £5K loss.
I cannot believe how this company treats it's shareholders. They have no shame wiping out small shareholders and giving stock away for a pittance to institutional Investors. It smells really bad, like a backroom deal. In any case, as mentioned before, they will be back to dilute again in 18 months time. Basu is a total idiot and a scientist, he loves being in the lab and playing about with new toys like the COVID detector, which he couldn't even sell one even though we have had a global pandemic. He is totally happy just applying for grants and raising money. I guess he is too used to academia. He seems to have a complete contempt for shareholders.
Anyway, I'm out. I'm sick of following this company. I don't care if the share price rockets afterwards. I'm just sick of Basu
Thing is, no fund manager will want to buy into that with that sort of report. it's a good Divi but I don't think the sp is going anywhere for a while.
I closed my huge position yesterday. I took the loss of 10k+. I've been in such positions before and basically, just get out and find 1000+s different possible investments for your money.
Bad news for a company doesn't fix itself overnight. I can't see how this is going to be fixed anytime soon. The report basically attacked their whole business model. I thought a gas well was some massive rig system ... Not a old pipe sticking out in a Forrest or someone's field.
If you stay in your going be checking every single pip movement and get totally and utterly stressed to the max. I've done that before and stayed in the bitter end. E.g. RBS.
I thought it was a good company too, I lost out. Just get out, move on.
Yes, my boy came through, just bought back in
Arnab Basu isn't even bothered about the SP. Probably having a lazy breakfast in bed. Thinking of the next dream idea to spend any revenue on. Probably:
Israel-Palestinian peace negotiation machine
Cold Fusion power plant
Faster-than-light spaceship
those are my top three expected new announcements.
An interesting theory of mine is that I don't think Kromek are quite there yet in terms of accuracy with the detector. If you look at this current job posting:
https://www.kromek.com/careers/vacancy/bioinformatician/
It tells me that the results the machine is producing still isn't quite there yet. It needs more work to clean up the results or figure out a better algorithm in order to interpret the massive amount of raw data of random DNA that is being sequenced in the air sample. That's my theory. so basically, more work needs to be done. Don't expect anything soon as this job is still live lol.
Yes, I'm a dumb xxx. I looked up what the market expectations were. Then I found out that the market expectations were 3 years of famine. After that maybe some feast. But I don't believe it anymore. The price is falling still.
If the CEO found a well in the middle of the desert with loads of wealthy people dying of thirst, he wouldn't sell the water. He would dream up a well detection system and ask us to fund it. SELL
I've had to sever my diamond hands by painfully gnawing my wrists with my teeth to save the rest of my body.
I've sold. The interim update of "in line with market expectations and slightly better cash" is really bad. Market expectations is that Kromek won't turn a profit for another 3 years. And slightly better cash means "we haven't squandered your money as fast as before".
You would make money shorting this stock.
It's an innovative company, but ****e at making any money.
If the CEO said that they found a crock of gold today and did a presentation showing the lumps of gold, I still wouldn't believe him. SELL
Lmao "low roller". Good one oowwcchh you got me
Lol. I thought 15p was the floor given that was the price offered on the fund raise.
Does anyone know what the book value is of Kromek btw?
I so want to go to their offices and beg their salesman to sell! Sell the darn detector thingys please! Get on those phones now and phone all your contacts please! I don't mind Manning the phones myself if it helps lol
Thank goodness it seems the price seems to be stabilizing. Please please don't fall any further lol. That's the best us diamond hands can hope for. I'm down so bad that I need a miracle. Fell for this ST writeup and now I'm in big deep doo doos.
I understand Smith's group has a detector. Why hasn't their SP gone sky high? I don't understand. If this detector thing is supposed to be in so much demand then I would have thought that it would have pushed up the price of Smith's group. Is the kromek one supposed to be better?