RE: Market Capitalisation post Assay.21 Oct 2025 17:11
Archangeleyes,
There's a lot of different things which need to be considered to value a company it's never quiet as simple as X Oz of gold x the gold price per Oz.
Current gold spot price is around $4,160 (at 16:47 21st Oct)
With the USD/GBP at £1 = $1.34
So around £3,100 per Oz.
Let's use the lower end of your range (I cba finding real potential numbers atm it's late in the day)
So say Wishbone has a total of 3m Oz (in the ground)
Theoretically this would be worth £9.3bn and an SP of around £3.08
Realistically gold in the ground had a value of substantially less than this, due to mining costs, transport costs, the use of estimates etc.
From what I can find online, the cost of gold in the ground was around $200 in 2024, with total extraction costs being around $2,000 per Oz.
Now the massive increases in the spot price are likely to significantly increase the in ground value, but extraction costs will also have increased.
So let's be conservative and say extraction costs are now at $3,000 (going back to £ that's £2,240
So 1oz in the ground would have a "worth" of £860 (ish)
Therefore 3m oz = £2.6bn value or a SP of 86p if that was fully equal to the companies Mcap.
Again this would be if everything happened instantaneously.
But in reality things take time etc etc and markets fluctuate and Mcap is based more on turnover annually and many other factors.
So it all depends on a lot of different variables.
Obviously if Wishbone got brought out at a value of the gold discovery then 86p a share would be awesome.
But it's likely the Mcap wouldn't reach the full value and even if it did it would be over a long time.
Therefore realistic goals of seeing a steady increase and good assay results would tend towards a value much lower than £1-£2.
Like I said, let's get above the recent placing, get some good assay details and see a move over 2p and onto 5p before we think about 10p ... 20p and 50p or higher.
It could get there, but not this year In my opinion.
(Don't rip my calculations apart to badly please this is all speculation)
Good luck holders.