Wakey Wakey it’s time to buy31 Jan 2026 10:43
Mendell Helium plc is trading at a frankly ridiculous ~$3.9m market cap with ~125m shares in issue, despite already being a producing helium company with revenues, infrastructure, and funded growth. As it stands, Mendell is effectively the only genuine helium producer heading toward AIM, in a market where peers with no production routinely trade at many multiples of this valuation. The second Rost well is funded, partially non-dilutive, technically upgraded, and expected to outperform the first — meaning output, cash flow, and credibility all step up before an AIM re-rating even comes into play.
This is where it gets spicy: AIM investors don’t price potential — they price production and scalability, and Mendell has both. A live producing well, a twin well imminent, recompletion opportunities with known high flow rates, and a clear Fort Dodge field development plan in a structurally supply-constrained helium market. Layer in EIS, institutional backing, and a realistic AIM admission pathway, and the disconnect becomes obvious. At $3.9m, the market is valuing Mendell like an explorer — but it’s behaving like a cash-generative helium platform in the making. If AIM happens with even modest execution, this valuation doesn’t look cheap… it looks unsustainably wrong.