Don't overlook the tied up Cash3 Sep 2022 15:15
End of May we hat 150 Mio GBP tied up in Margin Calls. Prices were shy of 100/Term, now its 4-fold. I'm happy that the hedges are fading out slowly. But still I guess most of our Cash is tied up in Margin-Calls - could be something like 400 Mio by now. We should know when half years figures are released.
Being prudent and careful, BoD simly cannot give an extra dividend as long as the threat of even higher margin calls is imminent.
What they could (and should) do is laying out and explaining the fundamentals and impose a firm shareholder return policy - like e.g. IPC did.
Derived from semi-last Presentation the hedges - and the risk of margin calls - are slowly fading out:
Q3 22 41.8 300,000
Q4 22 47.0 250,000
Q1 23 55.6 200,000
Q2 23 42.2 100,000
Q3 23 40.7 50,000