This may have been missed...21 Oct 2020 16:53
This may have been overlooked...
There are 28,473,716 Subscription Shares outstanding from the original 28,501,013 issued in November 2017...
That means only 27,297 have been taken up so far, which is hardly surprising, because the subscriptions to date and then current share prices were:
30 November 2018 40.37p 18.5p NAV 24.57p
30 November 2019 42.3p 24.9p NAV 35.1p
30 November 2020 46.14p 60p (Current) NAV 73.44p (GPSS grosses up to 56.14p)
So, as the last figures show, it would seem that only an idiot would fail to take up their shares on 30 November 2020 because that is:
A discount of 6.4% to the fully paid price and 23.6% to the NAV...
If they are all taken up, the Company will get a 'windfall' of £13.14 million to invest just as the Gold and Silver prices my be poised to take off and to add to its current £41.9 million Fund value, making c£55 million...
So what's the catch?
Well...if all the SS's are taken up, the NAV would fall to 64.3p par share, which makes GPSS a much better bet at a 12.7% discount to adjusted NAV than GPM at only a 6.7% discount.
However, the fact that you can buy GPSS for 10p (grosses up to 56.14p) while the fully priced shares are 60p to buy, suggests that some people are struggling to raise the funds in order to take them up.
Therefore the funds subscribed are likely to be significantly less than the prospective £13.4 million, which therefore raises the NAV of the fully diluted shares to anywhere between 64.3p (all taken up) and 73.44p (none taken up).
If only half were taken up the NAV would be c68p.
So...if you have the cash to buy and subscribe GPSS shares, they appear to be a no-brainer...
Apart from anything else, they are a highly leveraged 'option' on the Gold price, as the price action showed when Gold surged to over $2070 on 7 August and GPSS was 19p, having been 24.8p on 27 July.
If we saw the latter again, you'd make almost a 150% gain unless you took up the shares, in which case you'd make a 25% gain..you pays your money...
Which is why we have 350,000 of them; and the Chairman, Malcolm Burne has 318,750 and states in today's Annual Report that he will definitely be taking them up.
AIMHO as usual and DYOR...