Warrant Summary26 Jul 2020 13:53
Thought I'd do a quick summary of the warrant situation as it seems to be confusing people over the recent buying & selling volumes.
On 19th July 2019 SYM did an equity raise of near £2m (at 12.5p), which was taken up entirely by Vincel holdings, which is owned by the family behind Indorama Ventures - please google them to understand how big they are and what they do! As a result Vincel owned over 9% of the company.
As part of the equity raise Vincel Holdings were given warrants totalling 10m at an average price of 22.5p. They were due to expire on the 25th July 2020 but were extended for a few months on the 22nd July.
The share price went to over 40p on the 23rd July and across the 23rd & 24th there was a huge volume increase with very heavy trades around the 32p mark (averaged out). The vast majority were reported late / next day so often flagged as buys due to the way a late trades use current share price to 'guess' whether it's a sell or buy.
It doesn't take much educated guessing to see that Vincel have sold a large chunk of the 10m shares at an average of 32p and will then buy them back through the warrants at an around 66% cheaper, in order to retain around 9% of the company. But what does all that mean?
Firstly, SYM get over £2m in the bank and as they were already funded for 12 months this is welcome additional capital to increase sales and marketing activity whilst also improving the product and getting further regulatory sign offs. The company shares in issue are enlarged but this has been swallowed up already by the positive statements and increased PI buying. As the warrants seem to have cleared there should be nothing holding the SP back as Vincel won't be selling anymore, so it should steadily climb ahead of any further updates. With updates on the US bread market and d2p test results due this could explode if they are even remotely positive.
Expect an RNS in the next few days to clear all the warrant stuff up. Just my thoughts and would welcome others opinions.