Share buy back25 Sep 2018 16:20
-So SLE are going to spend £10 mill in a share buy back.-------------about 35-40 million shares.
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-Where are these shares going to come from ?
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-At present we have about 500 mill shares in issue, and of these 87.74% are held by ii's.---see sign shareholders list
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-Oisín Fanning 3,635,594 0.73%
Ewen Ainsworth 66,666 0.01%
Total 3,702,260 0.74%
Significant shareholders
Name
Shares held
% Total shares held
Shares not in public hands 315,524,187 63.07%
Toscafund Asset Management llp 311,821,927 62.33%
OWG PLC 19,546,176 3.91%
The Capital Group Companies Inc. 32,348,000 6.47%
Total Investment Solutions SA* 39,743,590 7.94%
Amara Equity Invest SA* 31,743,589 6.35%
-which leaves 12.26% or about 61.3 mill in pi hands.
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-Now assuming none of the ii's are going to sell at these depressed levels, then it is the company's intention to try and squeeze the shares from over half of the remaining pi holders,---- and there's only one way they will achieve that, --- that is to keep the SP low, and wait for the pi's to cave in-
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-Always seemed strange to me, that when SLE issued all those shares @45p, they stated that future policy would be a share buy back.
-To me it always seemed totally irresponsible to issue stock @45p with the intention of buying them back at a higher price------so their intention must have always been, to buy them back at a lower price, --and that is now what they will achieve.-------funny old game.