RE: This is another MET11 Sep 2025 14:51
Contnued
re EUA - the shares are still only 5p, with no talk of any future like the one ACF was pushing.
Exactly the same happened at Kibo when Krugel was CFO, commissioning an equally fantastic ACF report in Oct 2021 with the shares around 22p and a sensible £5.3m market cap, which ‘predicted’ a 151p-159p price and a £50 market Cap.That, again, drew in the gullible who pushed the shares up to 50p, only for them to crash to 2p over the next two years when reality struck and Kibo became essentially bust.
ACF’s childishly absurd method which it has now used for Mast, envisaged for Kibo an ‘aggressively conservative’ scenario producing an ‘ultra-conservative’ £673m revenue by 2025 with £325m free cash flow.
As said, ACF’s latest effort on Mast uses exactly the same schoolboy method – totally taking on trust Krugel’s boast he will get to 300MW by 2028 (when in 4 ½ years since listing the 300MW target has stayed the same with no progress made towards it except three plants which might make a profit in 2028 and five other tiddlers for whom no funding or timescale has yet been announced.) And as for the near £200m needed to pay for the other yet to be found plants up to 300MW, there is not a word how they will be found in a competitive market, nor what funding will cost.
But the lemmings have, again, fallen for the fantasy, apparently believing Mast’s £22m market cap now is deserved by a business with assets no more than £2-3m, and a shortfall in liquid cash needed to pay its creditors, with no cash coming in for at least three years, if then.
Figures by The Oak Bloke, a qualified accountant, a few weeks ago on here show the facts, which are that after repaying their borrowings from Riverfort and/or Powertree, there will not be enough free cash from Pyebridge, Hindley, and Bordersley even when fully up and running maybe in 2027, to cover Mast’s £1m pa overheads. So losses will continue, and Mast will definitely be coming to shareholders for more cash.
Meanwhile the lemmings don’t seem to have noticed that Mast’s recent warrants wheeze has diluted their shareholdings by 95% - which means that any of the profits forecast by Krugel before the wheeze will now produce only 5% of the earnings per share investors could have expected before, meaning in turn that any boost they give the shares will only be 5% of what it was before. That is the scale of the mismanagement Krugel has wrought upon his own shareholders.