RE: All talk from Johnson just get on with it3 Feb 2022 16:36
No funds into POW directly - all the raised funds sit in the IPO bank accounts which will be predominantly used to fund drilling campaigns. There will be no hanging around and the drills should turn as soon as the funds are raised (well within a matter of a few months).
PJ confirmed POW should hold 40-50% stake in the IPO so if the IPO is initially floated at £5mil then it’s £2mil-£2.5mil on POW’s balance sheet. If the IPO is a success and gains a market cap of say £100mil then it’s £40mil-£50mil on the balance sheet. Remember we will have a lot of these IPOs going live over the next 12-24 months.
Also to note, once the IPOs go live there are ZERO ongoing costs for POW - the IPOs fund themselves.
POW can then draw down that investment by selling some shares and bring the cash back into POW for drilling on POW owned assets, M&As, dividends, share buy backs etc.
A balance sheet with £10s of millions looks very appealing to the city and therefore can attract new big investment and also opens our avenues to favourable additional finance if we need it down the line. We also would have the capital to keep going for years to come after to just one success.
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