RE: Established path to market with this Ph3 trial16 Jan 2024 10:31
There are only two current sharing agreements, one has ended. Obviously private investors need to buy these shares from Lanstead when they sell so if there is not sufficient buyer activity then the price drops to attract buyers as IMM need Lanstead to sell into market for them to receive their funds, think it’s around £40k a month at this level. BOD said funded to end of 2024 as long as certain assumptions are met. Those assumptions were, full take up of the £500k retail placing…. Only £130k was taken. Share price been at or above 2.6p for Lanstead to sell, it’s been 40% below this level since October. Salary breaks one would hope are been taken but it’s the R&D spend of approx £800k every 6 months that can’t really be cut and general admin costs. Like I say they burn £1.2m every 6 months. My personal expectation is a low ball placing for around £4m that will see them funded through to trial completion in around 3 years time, then as the share price increases those who took the placing can sell out at a big profit, those 2p Lanstead warrants will kick in and provide more funding. They will do another big placing ahead of results like they did last time just incase of failure, and that’s the expected cycle of events from my viewpoint. I will take the placing 100% but I see no value buying here when funds are due, the market knows this so buyers for Lanstead shares won’t be queuing round the block