Gut feeling!8 Apr 2024 11:45
There has been plenty of speculation either way of how this will pan out. Deal or no deal! No one will know until that RNS that tells us the future. However, fingered in the air, gut feeling without any scientific evidence I came up with a figure. It’s pure speculation, nonsense etc., etc., etc. If a deal is struck, whatever the deal in monetary terms I think between the cornerstones and new investors they will end up with a maximum of 90% of the company. This leaves the rest of us with 10%. I’ll give a bit of rationale behind this, liquidity. I believe this would be the minimum the cornerstones would want, ideally I’d think they’d want more like 30% to provide a more stable base. (Not too sure with that theory).
So at 10% what does that look like. Currently approximately 300 million shares counting all the hidden ones are accounted for. 50% currently retail, 150 million.
Therefore future shares in issue would be 1.5 billion. 1.2 billion new shares to be issued.
What is the future value of the company just considering A1 with 1.5 billion shares. NPV of £750 million by 1.5 billion shares is 50p.
This is where this all falls down.
If full equity of £600 million raised via 1.2 billion shares, they’d have to invest at 50p a share, absolutely no return whatsoever.
If equity of £300 million raised via 1.2 billion shares, they’d have to invest at 25p a share. Is a 100% gain enough with an upside of A2 and V?