RE: Cap raise18 Feb 2025 12:25
Rax,
If they hadnt had a delay they would have still had to find funding for this accelerated expansion.
The financial position would have been similar because they would not have negotiated the delay on their first debt payment and so at this point the balance sheet would be very similar.
So accepting this fact that they would have needed to find the extra money for this, their options would have been
1. dilution
2. Debt extension
3. Forward selling of product
Personally I think dilution was the best decision in this instance.
Considering all the talk about potential ballooning of the silver price, there is a risk that more forward selling could seriously undervalue our product, so id have avoided 3.
Im guessing the extension of debt would be costly at this point up until the point we have a couple of quarters of production banked, the current debt and the approaching repayment dates may present to lenders a risk of their investment in part being funnelled to the existing debt, so 2 may not be attractive.
only 6 or 7% dilution for a massive 63% increase in future production rates must have a massive improvement on the financials (NPV, IRR, FCF, EBITDA) and so falls into category of significantly improving shareholder value..... We weren't participants in the raise (I dont think) but with the shareprice doing the usual drop to match the discount, we have the opportunity to buy more to maintain our %.
So im happy with the selection of dilution to fund the fast tracking of this opportunity.