RE: Re Martin Eales......................................................19 Jan 2020 00:24
Having made decent margins out of AMER twice, you cannot knock GC for the global decline of oil prices. I got in to AMER first around 10 years ago and about 5 years ago oil prices plummeted (it hit me hard because a number of my investments claimed chapter 11 and I lost every penny). Luckily I got out of AMER with a profit. It was steadily declining year on year and there was absolutely nothing the board could do about it, oil prices were just too low. Earlier last year GC bought a number of shares around 12p. This was a sign to jump back in. He declined an offer of around 17p and then accepted one of around £20m more. Yes it was bad for some people that didn’t manage to get out in time, but after the drop in oil price, AMER was never going to go above 30p again. GC can’t be blamed for that. Just look at his other successes, he’s a very good businessman.