RE: I've added13 Nov 2024 10:10
Hotair - I'm no expert, but my opinion is you get different categories of investors:
Day traders who dip in/out, looking for small margins. Many people on this board try to influence /sentiment/the price to help them achieve this.
Value investors (I think most PIs are like this) - think the mkt cap will be higher at a point in the future because of company strategy, undervalued today, etc.
Institutions - more rules to follow re porfolio balancing & risk mgt, so may sell to derisk/take profits even when a stock has huge potential. We've seen this with institutions that invested at IPO and took profits over past couple of months.
To answer the question, we're all gambling that a commercial discover will be made and they'll eventually be throwing off cash & paying dividends. The moment we have certainty that there's a commercial discovery, people will model cashflow and price the share accordingly.
Although todays announcement derisks this a little, and we should see a SP adjustment, my view is that it will take results of testing and confirmation of a commercial discovery to turbo the SP.
The main risk then will be operational execution - can they put infrastructure in place to extract and sell the gas, make money and pay dividends.
If they announce a commercial discover that points to a much higher company valuation, EVERYONE (traders, value investors and institutions) will pile in until the SP matches the forecasted valuation.
That could happen any day with Clink#1, or not. That's the risk.