RE: Confused.com13 Aug 2022 14:31
@Zoros - So you follow condescending diatribe, with an apology for it, then follow that up with more condescending diatribe, and continue with the holier than thou attitude. Congratulations!
You have obviously have not believed the short topic to be an issue from the start, and therefore, done absolutely no analysis of it. Yet you are prepared to dismiss it blindly.
The principal short started on September 16th 2020, 2 years not 3 years ago. From the initial position the short has increased 4 fold to over 88 million now, in that time the share price has decreased by more than 50%. Additionally, if you had done any analysis you would realise that 30-40% of all shares transacted in 2022 are related to the shorts. Without these the low volume this year would have been a trickle. No one is selling any volume (apart from you know who), and the SP has continued to decline.
Some may ask why September 2020, well that was when we were first added to the GDXJ, and the price spiked, additionally PI's continued to jump in on the continuous SP rise and the Scallywag hype, and GGP hit its all time high of 38p. Yes the price had probably got ahead of itself, and possibly good reason for shorts to be opened. However, the SP has now retraced to pre GDXJ days, when the market cap was just under $600M (mentioned by MrEMC2 in relation to the 2020 AGM), so why do they continue to increase the number on loan. Especially when everybody knows we have had 2 MRE's, confirmation of an ever growing ore body (via numerous fantastic drill results), and the possibility of GGP finding another elephant. It does not add up, which I could also say about your determination that 11-12p is currently fair value.
The share price is being supressed for some reason, it would be good to know why, and perhaps we will find out on day. In the meantime I guess we will have simply wait for Newcrests next resource release, and all of the other fantastic news coming out of the company.
All at a supposed fair value of 11-12p!
N.B. Ortex has spent thousands upon thousands of pounds updating security on their application, in order to prevent us from downloading and analysing data related to the shorts. This might not be solely down to issues raised related to GGP, but I do find it some what of a coincidence.