RE: Low sp14 Nov 2023 13:37
Hi subby
First read my post below...for the patient this is a bargain...if we get a repeat of 2008/2010 this will multibag...
Here are my responses to the points you make:
It has in fact gone from 40p to sub 8p before bouncing
I will deal with the macro factors later, but internally it has been chronically mismanaged.
Nick Mather can't really be blamed for overhyping it becauze the SP got up over 40p at least three times.
The PFS was a high spot but things started to go wrong in 2022 after 'PFS2' was published...
It had become clear that, in declining capital markets and with inflation starting to rise rapidly, that Cascabel was unfundable for a Junior Miner such as Solgold.
But the company needed money to keep going.
Darryl Cuzubbo had been appointed CEO in late 2021 but it was the previous acting CEO, Keith Marshall who, with consummate mining experience with Rio Tinto etc who persuaded the Board of a modified mining plan.
In May 2022 SOLG appointed a competent CFO, but Cuzzubbo tried to lead a 'cashbox' fundraising, against the advice of SOLG's bankers and its CFO and Corporate Finance Director.
The fundraise failed spectacularly and the SP plummeted from 35p to under 14p in under three months.
Unfortunately this coincided with a collapse in the copper price from over $5 to under $3.20 and coincidentally a fall in the gold price from over $2000 to under $1640...
So...a perfect storm...
Since then we have had the Cornerstone 'takeover' which boded well, with SOLG ending up with 100% of Cascabel and Bob Sangha (who engineered the Wyloo takeover of Noront) very publicly saying SOLG would be sold.
The 'merger' was a disaster because of internal incompetence and took twice as long as it needed to. As a result Scott Caldwell, ex CGP, took over as CEO and he has massively simplified things. There is no drilling going on anywhere but there are 20 interested parties in the data room.
Unfortunately during the news hiatus, Berry Street went into liquidation and sold its share stake, taking SOLG from c14p to under 8p...
So I hope thagt explains things.
Meanwhile, as I was writing this, Gold is flying and copper is up sharply.
Please make your own decisions, but my wife and I have 1.4 million shares at c11p and i think that tells you what my opinion is.
Good luck