RE: New investor22 Oct 2017 14:34
Iptuf, i'll give a go at answering your YA question.
Yes RGM took out a one year $1m YA loan in April. This loan had yearly 12% interest so we can assume that this $1m loan was racking up 1% interest a month or $10,000 a month interest? So by beginning of September no repayments or YA conversions had happened so we assume after 5 months this debt (with the interest) had risen to $1,050,000? Then on September 8th RGM announced they had prepaid $350,000 of this loan back to YA. If you look at the 5th April YA announcement http://www.lse.co.uk/share-regulatory-news.asp?shareprice=RGM&ArticleCode=ic7xwuht&ArticleHeadline=Convertible_Loan you will see the rns says:
"d) If the price of Shares is below the Fixed Conversion Price Regency may prepay subject to a pre-payment fee equal to 20 per cent. of any amount prepaid."
So RGM making that $350,000 prepayment meant they had incurred a 20% early prepayment penalty and so a $70,000 penalty. So the interest by beginning of September i had the debt upto $1,050,000 then on September 8th RGM prepaid $350,000 so that takes the debt down to $700,000 but the $350,000 prepayment incurred a 20% prepayment penalty and so that meant that RGMs YA debt was back upto $770,000. Of course additional interest has been racking up since September.
If you look again at the April YA announcement you'll see YA can only convert a maximum $200,000 in any one month. So if RGM don't pay off this one year YA loan in cash then my calcs say by December YA must definately start converting this loan into RGM shares: that would be probably $200k conversion Dec + the same in Jan + the same in Feb + then whatever is left of the loan in March.
The question is will all that conversion impact the RGM share price?
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Quickly onto the "impressive assets" i see Paul Johnson has been ramping hard this weekend (particularly Mambare). If you look at RGMs 28th July RNS update http://www.lse.co.uk/share-regulatory-news.asp?shareprice=RGM&ArticleCode=qcuheg3x&ArticleHeadline=Update you'll see it says that both Mambare and Motzfeldt are both "on care and maintenance": so nothing happening at either of those.
Actually talking of Motzfeldt, earlier in the year an RGM rns announced that one of Paul Johnson's companies may buy Motzfeldt for �350,000. Paul Johnson decided not to complete the purchase. So he may tweet that Motzfeldt is great but take what he says with a pinch of salt because he doesn't want to buy it.