Understating Dilution9 Mar 2023 20:20
'The elephant in the room of course is the inevitable dilution that would result.'
Dilution happens event with FT100 companies, do investors here not realise the hard business choices.
In the case of companies like Greatland there are I think 2 cases of dilution.
Case 1, as last year when we needed money to continue with our committed spending. If you cannot raise the money using the banks etc, you have to get it from the markets. The reality of this situation is that without in inflow of funds the company cannot fulfil its commitments, if the company is in this situation then the next stage,
Greatland was in this situation but the work of Shaun and the board brought in the new investor and because we were now funded the bank borrowing.
Was there dilution? The share holders could not fund the business so we sold part of the business to the new investor, but the company may not exist without the extra investment.
Realty Check, alterative the company fails and your share certificates become Scrap paper and in the digital age, nothing, so no real dilution.
Case 2, we are now funded for the expenditure that we are committed to. There is talk of M&A activity, can the business finance this at present? No. Can the existing shareholders stump up the cash? No if you cannot fund through debt, the you need more shareholder funds. The new funds are not dilution, they are not taking value out of your share holding, they are giving you a better chance of the company expanding and you benefiting from it.
If we had continued as we were at the end of 2020 (max paper value) we could we have been taken out and we could have lost all, luckily the old management (GH) brought in the new management (SD)