Booboo24 Mar 2018 11:07
Looking again at yesterdays RNS i'm suspecting RGM have already started to offload their ALBA shares. I say that because on 29th November 2017 ALBA paid RGM �315,000 in cash + approx 75 million in ALBA shares for RGMs remaining HHDL stake. Yesterdays RNS also says RGM selling their UKOG shares got �1,298,555 + they received from UKOG a further �54,498. So those 3 amounts added together total �1,668,053.
But yesterdays RNS says: "The six month period to 31 December 2017 was one of significant activity, in which the Company completed the sale of its 5% participation in Horse Hill Developments Ltd, a private oil exploration company, and was able thereby to generate proceeds of �1,719,126, as well as receiving 6,467,500 shares in the AIM-listed Alba Mineral Resources plc"
Yesterdays �1,719,126 could've been an error because the 6,467,500 shares (that Bell mentions above) was not in ALBA (like he says) but in Curzon energy. To be specific RGM received 74,733,096 shares in ALBA. Though if true and by 31st December RGM had generated proceeds of �1,719,126 then to me that looks like (by 31st December) RGM may have already sold over �50,000 in ALBA shares. So who knows since the beginning of this year RGM may have already offloaded the rest and they may have been causing ALBA's price dropping. I thought in the original deal ALBA had imposed on RGM "a 6 month orderly marketing provision post-Completion". I wrongly thought that meant RGM couldn't sell their ALBA shares for 6 months but it seems they could sell.
Though one thing for sure, if "Cash and cash equivalents" does mean that the cash RGM had remaining on 31st December 2017 was only a �38,473 (like it said in yesterdays RNS) then the money situation at RGM is much much worse than i possibly imagined.