RE: Turbo/Miller17 Feb 2015 20:56
I agree, if nothing else the shell value is close to the current SP, adding in the stakes in the Canadian firms and the potential for deals (albeit weighed up against the 250k/yr running costs) and it doesn't make sense in getting out now.
None of the sells so far have triggered an RNS, which you would have expected given the size of the flows, which suggests that the loan converters pre sold their shares and someone got landed with them, probably a MM, and has been trying to get rid of them ever since. Given that the SP was around 0.17 at conversion you can assume that the pre sale was done somewhere between this value and 0.1 and that whoever bought them was unaware that only 10% of the shares were in public hands and just what an effect releasing that many shares on the market would do.
Personally I might look to top up a bit tomorrow, I already hold over 2% and am in for the long haul.