RE: Right’s or wrong17 Feb 2025 09:24
The RI will not change the price much now, it is all over, if you took up the rights and want to sell some you can sell from your old shares, if you wanted to sell all you would have sold the rights or let them lapse. Everything is already factored into the SP, anything that changes the SP will be other news or normal market movement, below £4 really, if you think that short the share and if you are right you will make a fortune.
slackermark
Good description, useful for those who do not know how new funding works, before high interest rates would stag a number of the placing buying the shares via Primary Bid, unfortunately due to lack of new placing Primary Bid quit this but do have the occasional offer however you must already have shares in the company and be with a broker that works with Primary Bid, II, HL and A J Bell do IWEB does not. It is a pity that small investors miss out on placings, this is due to FCA rules not allowing offers to be open to everyone without a full prospects that meets FCA rules (cost companies a lot of money to produce), this means according to the FCA I do not know enough to buy shares at a discount to the market without costs which includes stamp duty but I do know enough to buy them at a higher price in the market + trading costs, stamp duty etc, and this is for my protection, you can't make this up. Another great FCA rules stops me moving shares from a trading account to ISA with single broker fee, a service that some brokers provide) if there is a KIDD as I can't get to tick the box so I get charged 2 sets of trading fees another great protection for retail investors from the FCA.
For me OFWAT or government interference are the greatest risks for this share especially if government get more desperate and bash water companies to try and gain public approval to help counteract their crashing pole ratings. Unfortunately no other party will come and defend the water companies so easy target.