RE: Assigned their shares16 Sep 2024 18:37
Chesh,
Haven't you worked it out yet??? Let's make it easy for you.
Person X sacrificed their £22,500 salary for 2,50,000 shares (equivalent of 9p)
The price of the shares (and thus if you know the amount of salary they should have earned AND the share price you can calculate the number of shares) is based on the following
The PRICE of allocated shares is calculated thus - The number of the New Ordinary Shares to be issued will be calculated by reference to (i) the price at which an equity fundraising in the Company is carried out in the period of the salary sacrifice or (ii) if there is no fundraising, the price equal to the volume weighted average price of ordinary shares in the Company calculated over the previous 14 days.
I'll draw your attention to the 2nd part " the price equal to the volume weighted average price of ordinary shares in the Company calculated over the previous 14 days."
In ECR the salary sacrifice was agreed up to the end of March 2024 (end of Q1), extended to the end of June (end of Q2) and I'm guessing will be announced for the end of Sept 2024 (end of Q3)
So if the price remains low in the 14 days up to the end of Sept (end of Q3), based on the weighted average price, the price will be lower, thus when you divide person X's sacrificed salary of £22,500 by a lower price you end up giving them more shares. So if the sacrificed salary remained the same £22,500, but the price was 4.5p, then the person would be entitled top 5,000,000 shares.
So using a real world example
19 Sept 2023; Nick Tulloch and Mike Whit.low will each receive a salary of £102,000 per annum of which £12,000 is to be paid in cash pro rata across the year, and the balance is to be satisfied by the issue of equity in four quarterly payments of £22,500 using the mechanism as discussed above.
So, and this is fact, the £22,500 is fixed for the period in question. The lower the share price goes in the 14 days to the end of qualifying period (end of Q3?) the more shares Nick and Mike will be issued based on the mechanism described. That's a fact, straight forward fact. In terms of the number of shares allocated to anyone on a salary sacrifice scheme, it is better to have a low price particularly during the 14 days price qualifying phase. So for the 14 days at the end of each quarter.
I'll let you look what happened to the ECR price near the end of March (Q1) and near end of June (Q2).
So essentially, irrespective of company or individual, if you are getting shares allocated on the basis of a set amount ££ sacrificed, then it would be beneficial to any one on a salary sacrifice scheme to keep the share price low until you are happy with the amount of shares you have.
Penny dropped now Chesh has it?
This post is based on fact