RE: Snakes and ladders24 Feb 2019 11:53
MT3: thanks the post. I share with your point but with caution. I started to invest SXX much earlier than ST1, and have learned a lot of lessons (good and bad). Our PI usually have much less information than II, and need to be cautious to invest our own money to any company (including SXX).
Before ST1, the sp of SXX ranged from 30 to 45. SXX announced on 02/11/16 that they would raise £330-400m by placing with price 20 to 30p; and us$400-450m by convertible bond of 8-8.5% rate and conversion price 25-30% above the placing price. The final results were:
raised £370 with placing price of 20p; $400m by convertible bond of 8.5% and conversion price us$0.3076 (which is 23.5p based on the exchange rate today), the worst-case scenario in their original plan for our investors. Consequently, the sp went down to around 16p after ST1. The royalty financing from Hancock is even more expensive.
I still think SXX will be successful to raise money in ST2, and the sp in future will be high (may be much high) than the current price, but we cannot ignore the risk and uncertainty.