RE: Omega Cassetting Work/Payments - Ongoing29 Sep 2021 13:06
Cash position.
I''m assuming they did not give an update on the cash position at the AGM, as that would have had to have been RNS'ed.
So the position that we know is as at 31st of March, which was £5.8M. ODX made a loss of £2.1M, on revenue of £8.7M, revenue was 11% down on the previous year, with covid having a negative impact on the non-covid products (and unfortunately having no positive impact on the covid products).
But that 2.1M loss included raising £10.3M from the share issue. That share issue was primarily but not exclusively to fund the capacity expansion to 2M, but as it turned out, they only had to buy equipment for 1M units a week, as the gov gave them a loan of equipment for the other 1M plus free toyota personal for commission and optimising the equipment. So a loss of £2.1M with £10M coming in from a share issue that only had to fully fund 50% of their capacity increase.
So far this year they have received £2M pre-production, some of which has been paid back thru the cassetting service. Now they don't have to fund further expansion, but given they made a loss of 2.1M when they had funds left over from the expansion funds, their cash burn rate this year, when they don't have excess funds from a share issue, is going to be higher.
The much vaunted employee head count has to also been considered. They ended last year with a lot more people than they started. Its clear from the full year presentation that some of that head count is agency and zero hr, but still the implication is that going into FY 2021, they have a bigger head count than going into FY2020, which means ongoing bigger wages. Impossible to dial in furlough as we have no data on furlough usage so have to ignore that.
So the position is not entirely clear, but I would not say that going into FY2021 with £5.8M cash£2M prepayment, and increased head count, compared with a FY2020 with 0.6M overdraft and £10M funding, some of which wasn't used for its intended purpose (plus £0.5M prepayment) and substantially less headcount, is a better position.
And no covid orders 6 months thru FY2021.