Grrrrrrrr......18 May 2014 03:54
I have held this share for longer than I had planned initially. So, folks leaving are thinking the same...apparently average growth in AIMS market was 500%, i.e., there are shares in the market with higher yield potential which possibly explains the low interest in the company by pi.
Now the next news is not anticipated till Sep. what shall potential investors anticipate...autofocus news? Hmm, the silence and delay from the company tells me that it might have been another storm in the teacup...Any comments?
Anyways more to the point. I notice a few inaccuracies in the company's net cash balance mentioned on the board which is £33M at the end of 31st March 2014 compared with £62 M at the end of 31st Dec 2013.If we all remember that there has been a purchase of the law firm with that £62M?! (http://otp.investis.com/clients/uk/helphire/rns/regulatory-story.aspx?cid=339&newsid=406791)
The dilution of the company will have the following effect (copied from the link: http://otp.investis.com/clients/uk/helphire/rns/regulatory-story.aspx?cid=339&newsid=406746)
"Each new ordinary share will have a nominal value of 0.1 pence compared with
the nominal value of each existing ordinary share of 0.01 pence."
Key thing to remember here is that there is only a change in the nominal value by the consolidation but its market value, also known as the share price, will be decided by the market factors of demand supply, media news, management ownership of the shares, direction of business and other such events. So, a direct conversion of share price from 8p to 80 p won't happen. The share price will not jump overnight in value post consolidation, it'll we be a slow rise (I hope no fall as we've observed recently).
The above link mentions more meaningful dividends which I did get excited about at the start. But if you look at the scenario again; I owned 100 shares out of 1000 share in circulation which got consolidated to 10 shares with only 100 shares left in circulation. Now if company declared £100 in dividends, pre-consolidation I would receive (100 x 100/1000 = £10) and post-consolidation I would receive (10 x 100/100 = £10). So, it wouldn't make any difference to my dividends yield from the shares, which would also apply to Autofocus dividends (if any). If I bought more shares and all the new investors would obv get more dividends / share.
My summary of the news would be that the above decision will certainly have a good long term prospects for the share holders, however no short term gains unfortunately for the existing holders. So, the investors selling their shares are not daft and probably heading to companies for a quicker profit. It just took me a while to take-in the consequence of the consolidation which ain't much in the short term peeps!!!