Posted by 3rd rock iii15 Jun 2009 14:36
thsi shoul;d put your minds at rest ;-) Ok people,
I was getting as confused as everyone... so I called Barbara at QTI... who was incredibly helpful.
Goes like this. QTI needed to be able to issue warrants and the like. To do this the nominal share value has to be below the market share value. At .2p (ish) it wasn't. So they needed to reduce the nominal share value to .1p.
To do this you issue 10 shares for every 9. Then you 'defer' 90% of the shares... this gets you to 0.1p nominal value shares.
They had to do this, for legal reasons, in 2 stages.
1) Issue the shares as normal shares. The market value drops by 90%, but your share holding increases 10 times... so you are on a par.
- This stage happened last week.
2) Defer 90% of your shareholding, so that you now have 10% normal 'tradeable' shares, and 90% 'deferred', which can't really ever be traded...
BUT.. and please note the BUT... the MARKET value will increase by 10 times.
This will happen on 25th June.
The end result of this is that after 25th June you will have the same number of tradeable shares as you had 2 weeks ago, and the market price will be on a par with what it should be....the nominal value of all shares will also be at 10% of what it was, so that QTI may issue warrants, go for loans, and do all those things they need to do as a company to raise capital.
In laymans terms: sit tight...and all will be back to normal after the 25th.
For the gamblers I am sure there are a couple of