RE: Short, manipulation exists21 Jan 2022 14:00
Sam, good afternoon.
Your post@1116:
"..So, short manipulation does exist re GGP; and has been used to depress the SP for the last year while one marvelous set of drill result after another has been released. Now we are told that it doesn't matter anyway because the final outcome for long term holders will be fine. I am a long term holder so I have and will be fine. BUT, what about those who have needed to liquidate funds for personal finance reasons. They have been ROYALLY SHAFTED by the shorters. It should be banned even though it 'creates a buying opportunity ' for the 'I'm all right jack' brigade..."
I guess, reading from your post, you are blaming shorters for the downfall or rather - supression of the SP? If shorting didn't exist @ GGP, where might you expect the SP to be today then?
(a) ALL of the gold is still in the ground. (b) GGP have declared 1.6Moz Au(ore reserve).
(c) GGP have 4,200,000,000 shares on their books.
Where exactly would you like the share price to be so that "latecomers" or those who wish to liquidate their stock now for private reasons....can pocket a profit?
Have you actually worked out how much GGP is currently worth? Why the market values all the other junior miners with this arrangement at similar (relative) share price values?
Let's try a mini experiment:
Let's pretend there is NO SHORTING (based only on the fact that you think this has held or driven the SP down to low levels):
25p per share. This makes GGP worth £1.05Bn. Hav worth £3.5Bn
How about 50p by now after the annus horriblis of 2021: GGP: £2.1Bn. Hav: £7Bn.
No gold recovered, 1.6Moz ore reserve, the rest inferred (ie: we think it's down there).
Staying with that calculation, are you expecting double or even treble this valuation if the MRE2 unearths: 4MozAu reserve? GGP: £6bn, Hav worth £21Bn.???
Please, please...all of you who really don't fully understand why we are where we are.....DYOR!
GGP is worth a MAXIMUM of 15p ALL DAY LONG with their current finding.
A thousand assays and 50/50 fabtastic RNS's won't raise it 1p until and unless it is corroborated by independent authorities via a JORC / MRE / PFS / FS.
3.2MozAu / 4.4MozAuEq / 1.6Moz(ore reserve) = a maximum of 15p and that is being generous.
People forget that the GGP share issue would provide 1 share for over 2/3ds of the entire population of the world!! Its SP simply cannot keep growing to satisfy the greedy needs of some punters owning stock who are ignorant of why the SP isn't flying all the time.
32 recommends for your post (last count).......that is quite alarming and goes to show the level of understanding here (or lack of it).
C'mon guys DYOR I beg of you. Prepare for what to expect of an emerging junior miner over the coming months or we'll be having this argument a year from now because the SP is only 40p for example.
Z