RE: Interesting Yahoo Finance14 Nov 2023 08:34
Daz- I dispute only that the article ADE mentioned, included nothing at all regarding dilution (basically pointing out he performed another easily verifiable lie hoping everyone else is as lazy as he is to not check)
But since you ask-I’m not disputing that it’s possible- certainly it is, but it is by no means a guarantee given our current cash balance.
Cash burn is high but frankly I would be worried if it wasn’t at this stage. setting up to transfer from small scale R&D manufacturing to full scale production line which ensures good QC obviously requires huge cost.
costs for bulk orders of components to enable the manufacturing (though this is I admit pure speculation I suspect that is a large part of the cash burn, as it makes the most sense to me given the £15-20m a year burn and only approximately £4-5m is salary’s)
If manufacturing is set up sufficiently in time- cash burn would drop and revenue could start - no dilution required
The only way to know how likely that is would be to look at the manufacturing experience in the team, but turnover is quite high as I understand it so likely a pointless act as it may change in a few months.
But high turnover of staff at this snapshot in time also isn’t inherently a bad sign depending on who is leaving, they could be removing some of the R&D focus to bring in manufacturing.
As for bonds communication I would like more myself but from his perspective I can see why he would be hesitant.
the SP had a few false starts due to shareholder excitement on (honestly) rather mundane news.
This is an exciting time where the same happening again is a distinct possibility, about if a spike based on speculation were to happen now then a likely fall in SP would come on the back of it as we are still a number of months away from large orders (in my opinion). A dip could land exactly where they don’t want the SP to be low (if indeed another fund raise was needed). It would also lead to a lot more disgruntled shareholders who buy in due to FOMO and end up caught in a dip.
Again Bonds number one priority is the long term success of the company - that comes before anything else, but he is answerable to the shareholders- keeping a smaller percentage of disgruntled investors I’d better than multiplying them.