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Thank you, krull. Agreed, comes across as relaxed and confident. Re finance, states, at one point, that their approach is come to the market for small amounts. Towards the end, clearly feels that the market is not doing their share price justice.

On that day, the share price closed at 229.25, down 15.75p on the previous day's close of 245.00p (03/12/15).

Given the total absence of flow-back from the placing, wonder if: 1/ the placing of 29/03 wasn't, in effect, over-subscribed; 2/ they haven't picked up an anchor investor.

Just 3.9m shares traded so far. No flow-back from the placing whatsoever. Wonder where the placed shares went.

zoom, Personally, I'm not looking at the eps figures or forecasts, because 2017 eps was inflated by the one-off treatment of the receivables agreement. It's revenues and cash flow that matter, imho.

To get a placing away, you need to do it BEFORE anticipated good news, to entice new investors in.

�800k placing and just 34.4m shares traded during the day. That is very encouraging, it does look as if the placing has gone into firm hands.

No need to dig and blast, they should just use the magical words, "Open Sesame" - that should sort it!

just a reminder: $1,609.8m @ 1.36 = �1,183.7m = 425.2p per share.

8.1%, Hawkey. Hope you can live with that. Bon voyage!

From note 10 to the 2017 Final Results: For comparison purposes, assuming that the (receivables) agreement had been completed in the beginning of 2017, it is estimated that revenue would have been $59.2 million higher this year.

or just long overdue recovery?

better volume than yesterday: 833k shares traded so far.

have the new shares gone into firmer hands than during the previous placing of 29/03?

�1.55m raised since 29/03.

2017 2016 ----------- ----------- Profit / (Loss) attributable to equity holders of the Company ($m) 271.0 (1,248.9) Weighted average number of ordinary shares - number (1) 279,013,724 278,395,190 Basic earnings / (loss) per share - cents per share 97.1 (448.6) 97.1 @ 1.38 = 70.4p 212p/70.4 = 3.01x

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Your post has reminded me that the eps is in $, hasiba. My turn to forget to convert the currency.

that is, the calculation of eps of 97.1p. Whoops, I see what you mean! 3.16 would give us a share price in excess of 300p. Some adjustments made to the published eps, apparently!

Hawkey, The calculation is explained in the final results RNS of 22/03/18: go to the "Notes to the consolidated financial statements" and then to Note 7, earnings per share.