RE: Shall we all look to work in a positive way?28 Jul 2020 12:47
For me there was too much vagueness and hiding behind the commerciality and security market considerations for providing very little specific detail.
Questions :
How many vending machines are currently installed, working and generating sales ?
How many orders for machines have been received ?
I don’t see this as likely to provide any meaningful contribution to revenue.
Based on the projected 3m TEUs per annum at Tema, what revenue would that generate for the business ?
Given that would allow shareholders to work out the TeU figure i doubt they want to answer that but we know how much revenue from PAX we get at Lunghi.
How much in payments have we received from YA / Riverfort. Given that there was a notional value against the shares which was being repaid in instalments based on the SP what is the current difference between what we have received and what we would have expected to receive to meet that notional total figure ?
Again, an embarrassing one that probably wouldn’t be answered but we all know that the instos are paying much smaller monthly payments than we require to repay the mezzanine loan draw down.
Given we are in the business of selling the sort of kit that should be in hot demand during a pandemic, the webinar provided little detail or indication that the company is actually receiving orders. The graph in the presentation showed a spike in tech orders , which would appear to correlate with the announced orders a couple of months ago, followed by a drop and then slight up tick projected. The impression given was that whilst receiving plenty of enquiries, actual orders are not materialising and that there won’t be a significant and transformational growth in this side of the business.
How would the board seek to assuage the distrust investors have in how they rely on poor quality equity finance that impacts shareholders?
It was suggested in the webinar the board would like to attract large or institutional investors. The only institutions seem to be finance providers like YA / Riverfort and, at present this is not an investable proposition because of the boards approach to financing and holders in general.
The BoD bemoaned the trading that goes on in this share but they are responsible for that. Bucket shop placings with the placees who are always only in it for the quick turn can’t be a surprise to them,
One of the board goals is to deliver a material and sustainable improvement in share price. How do they propose to do that ? It would be nice to get some indicative figures on that but we know the board won’t commit to that sort of thing. Some might say that given this hit below 6p earlier this year that a consistent SP which is 33% greater than that low meets the qualification. Personally having a SP which is currently persistently under nominal means we are falling way short of that goal and the board should be targeting 15p as a minimum level to consider that an achievement.
Happy for these