RE: Placing or not ?27 Sep 2023 07:39
If further drawdowns go ahead then no, I don’t expect a raise yet.
I think Cheek and co will be hoping for a similar rise in the sp as when AIHL was two or three months off it’s evaluation with NICE. Basically that could start anytime now and I’ve a feeling Cheek won’t, unlike Budd, miss an opportunity to raise on the back of said rise.
If no drawdowns then yes, we’ll definitely see a placing.
If there’s been consistent selling here and the drop from about 12p to 10p was fairly quick then I suspect there’s already been forward selling going on and a manipulated drop so that when it’s announced the discount won’t appear so huge. It’s happening all the time at the moment with everyone finding it so difficult to raise cash. A ‘strategic investor’ lends money to the struggling company but forward sells at a considerable profit and then it’s dropped on the pis. We get diluted, the lender makes a huge profit and probably buys more shares ata rock bottom price IF they’re aware things are about to improve. Often this last but doesn’t happen though and the figures I’m talking about aren’t that huge anything between £500k and a couple of £million.