RE: this one...18 Feb 2017 04:41
starrenstoff VRP are raising 108M - fact
That is nearly double the current mcap requiring 200% dilution (so your shares will be worth 3 times less)
The price they can launch on NASDAQ is the MA of the shareprice.
You cant just rock up to US investors and ask for money at a massive premium to the share price.
AIM works in very simple ways - if a known dilution looms - the price goes into something called the "death spiral" where the SP lowers due to diluton concerns, and because the SP lowers - more dilution is inevitable, which lowers the sp, which makes more dilution, which lowers the sp.
If the BoD don't sort this out quick this is blatantly going to cash in bank sp of ~35 mil meaning that 108Mil will require 350% dilution odd, making your shares worth 4.5 times less value - of the CURRENT share price. You then need to wait for it to reach your buy in price.
The point I am making here is we need this to reach half a billion £ mcap to breakeven.
Let me tell you now as someone who works in pharma and has been part of a NASDAQ lanch - that mcap wont happen for a while, or if it does, will be temporary.
I was happy when 18Mil induced just over 100% dilution because a 500 mil mcap would have been a good 5 bagger odd.
Now 500 milion mcap sees me breakeven or maybe at a slight loss.
And the entire reason this is happening is due to BoD's incompetence. Many here including myself posted how NASDAQ has a minimum SP requirement and this would need consolidation.
The RNS stated a NASDAQ launch 6 months from now.
All they have done is consolidated by January and now left it hanging with a "H1" which gives us another 4 months of AIM dilution death spiral nonsense.
Even if April sees good phase 2 results this wont recover much - maybe 100p, which is 2p old money.
Why? Because this is the crappy AIM and dilution is round the corner.
The entire point, and the entire reason many were excited here, was because we wanted phase 2 success while on the NASDAQ which would yield massive rerates.
BoD are absolutely USELESS. Thanks for wasting my money paying your salary to stall and get your chums in on mates rates.
Will never invest in a company where I see their names again and will publically warn anyone of them too if they go to new companies, and their incompetence.