Sentiment6 Jan 2023 23:21
Sentiment has to be the biggest factor contributing to its terrible performance. It is very rare that you get a chance to buy a portfolio of shares at such a huge discount. It's heading toward a share price of 1/4 of its NAV. After years of disastrous investment choices and similar management performance it's hard to see how this can be turned around. There are a couple of decent holdings and a soon to be cash sum available to invest, Ed could quite possibly turn this around and increase the NAV to a point that more investors would be encouraged to buy. At the moment investors still selling at this level for a loss have to be the impatient, those in need, or maybe just a better investment has appeared for them. Until Ed can show he can make some wise decisions unlike the previous BOD, then this will languish for a long time yet, barely getting into the range of its NAV. Now Ed has bought in with a reasonable sized investment, things could start to turn around, as he disposes of the legacy investments and invests in his own choices ( and his own interests ), add a bit of PR and anyone buying at such a huge discounted level at this price now will have an investment with very limited downside (almost none if you don't need your money in the short term) with the potential of multiplying your investment many times ( over 3x just to reach NAV ) IMO an excellent risk / reward. Ed just needs to push on and make up for its disastrous past.