RE: Option Pool RNS4 Jun 2021 16:10
Not sure if issuing new shares amounting to 2.6% (around £720,000 in todays value) of the company's current share capital at such a low bar would be seen as a positive news by prospective or current shareholders. Its the signalling effect that scares me - does that 5p mark then imply that PJ assumes that employees and non exec directors in the company would have achieved significantly if the company share price hits just 5p? I was expecting this share price to drift towards 5p anyways, even if PJ progressed his current set of projects at this pace without having employees overachieve on any aspects of the business.
Jumping from 3p to 5p (with the current set of projects) is not a significant achievement to reward employees and non-exec directors to the tune of 30Million shares, in my opinion. Many a junior resources company have got bitten because of this misadventure. On the plus side, PJ has not assigned these options to exec Directors which makes him more credible in this space. Unlike the recent screw over by the $CRES Management.
My expectation is that POW will be valued a couple of Billion £s even if there are two successful decent size hits, but given the lower bar of 5p being seen as significant milestone to reward employees over a 3 year time frame here, it suddenly makes POW less attractive in the junior mining space.
Yes it is indeed a strange coincidence that KAV & POW opted to announce Employee stock option plans at the same time!!
(disclaimer: LTH in both POW & KAV here)