RE: No News Is GREAT NEWS!13 Dec 2023 13:41
As a cautionary note, it is worth keeping it firmly in mind that SD can say all sort of things on the lines of hoping for a 'blockbuster year', expecting to put out a 'significant update' on any products at all, and all sorts of comments could be made on the lines of 'hop', 'expect', 'anticipate', 'looking towards' etc etc - All the comments mean is they are an aspiration at best, and more likely just a fluffy platitude. Any actual facts which may have a material effect on the company's share price will be issued via RNS. Remember Sareum several years ago stated confidently that they expected to conclude 'at least two commercial deals by the end of the year.' It was a comment, not in an RNS, and it was an expectation. Guess what? Nothing happened. So SD could say 'I expect Val will be a multi billion dollar company in 3 years', 'I expect the lab to generate enormous income by the end of Q1' or 'I hope a major bio will buy buy us out for 100 billion' and not break any rules at all. It would get a lot of underwear here very moist, but it would mean absolutely zilch as it wasn't official news, it would just undermine her credibility. The only financial things RNSed lately have been a small amount of now-completed work several months ago at the lab, and the acceptance of a tiny amount of shares in a very small company in return for a contract which may or may not lead to possible further interest in a year or so, with no figures given for either. And that's it. What happens next I won't forecast, but wheat and chaff need separating, and so far it's pretty much chaff as far as I can see.