RE: INCREDIBLE24 Apr 2023 10:11
Qouting Mr ART123
The wording here is different to most of the recent delisting RNS's in that it says that the general meeting will be for the 'purpose of considering and, if thought fit, passing the requisite shareholder resolution to approve the Cancellation.'
"The Circular will include a notice of a general meeting of the Company which is being convened for 10:00 a.m. on 16 May 2023, at the Company's registered office St Martins House, Le Bordage, St Peter Port, Guernsey, GY1 4EA (the "General Meeting"), for the purposes of considering and, if thought fit, passing the requisite shareholder resolution to approve the Cancellation."
Obviously the 80%+ holder has said they will vote for the delisting but I would assume that if some of the Institutional holders turned up and said that delisting was a bad idea - and it looks a bad idea for the share price to have fallen from £3.15 to 67.5p on the announcement - then maybe the company would withdraw the resolution and resume normal trading (at £3.00+).
After all they recently put the company up for sale but then withdrew the Formal Sale Process when they announced an improvement in trading on 7th September 2022:
"On 13 June 2022, the Company announced a review of strategic options available to the Company and commenced a formal sale process under the Takeover Code. The Company subsequently engaged with a limited number of parties but given stronger trading during the process, as alluded to above, the Board felt that it was in the best interests of the Company to withdraw and terminate the FSP at this time, and confirms that it is no longer in active discussions with any interested parties."
Anything can happen here as unlike most of the recent companies that have delisted because they genuinely couldn't raise cash with their tanked share price, this company is successful, profitable (£5 share price and near on £1Billion m/cap on announcement of the results late last year) and even pays a dividend.
Maybe the 80%+ holder(s) may even **** themselves when the see what the talk of delisting has done to the share price - the value of their holding fell from £490M to £105M overnight - and conclude that the safety of the market is better than the uncertainly of not being listed.