Rights Issue16 Jul 2010 12:54
On Wed 21 July 2010 the Rights Issue and Share consolidation begins. Assuming 5000 shareholding.
1. Shareholders will have their shares divided by 30 rounded down to give New ordinary shares. The Share Price should also increase by same multiple but theres no guarantee of what this will end up being. The rights issue will also cause the shareprice to drop further. New shareholding will be 5000/30 = 166 new consolidated shares.
2. For the rights issue you will have: 166 (new consolidated shares) x 17 = 2822 nil paid shares.
You can either take up the rights to buy more shares: 2822 x £1.50 = £4233
or sell the nil paid rights at the nil paid rights trading price which would be around £2.42 - £1.50 = 92p per nil paid share = giving you 2822 x £0.92 = £2596 (since the deal was made public the share price has risen by around 10p so nil paid share would now be worth around £1.02 per share).
The last option is to do nothing and receive the value of any nil paid rights at the end of the nil paid trading period. However theres no guarantee anything would be paid.
hope that makes things a bit clearer to anyone :)