RE: Milkwood Capital10 Sep 2024 08:27
[Stating the obvious] the 'Asian Customer' relationship is more important than ever. And we need to understand this far more than we do already (in so far as NDA’s allow). What’s the end objective, what’s the application(s) what’s the commercial upside, what are the timelines, what’s the risks (competition, price, performance)
Nanoco is, as far as we know, on its knees in the absence of visibility of commercial revenue. There are no meaningful II's to pander to anymore (if that was indeed the case and I'm not denying the possibility)
This is the opportunity for the company to be completely transparent. I want to be able to make decisions based on full disclosure rather than fall victim later to more of the same.
I don’t believe the company is ‘corrupt’ but clearly mistakes have been made and in ST’s case, it's from a risk perspective. ST themselves likely put too much stock in their sensor array adoption and have been left at the alter by whoever it was they were courting. But Nanoco should have been more aware of the risks and whilst a ‘one liner’ in the company accounts might cover their back, the more open investor communications lacked clarity on risk. I consider that a function of the companies own naivety rather than a deliberate attempt to mislead. I can only say that because of the LinkedIn posts from ST employees seemingly being as surprised as we were at the project cancellation.
I don’t see any benefit delaying a trading update especially when there has been a forced fundamental shift in strategy, but whenever it comes if they repeat the mistakes and are not transparent about the upside and downside of the Asian Customer relationship and other pipelines they will lose what little confidence I have left.
They have nothing left to lose. It’s time to see what’s under the skirt.