Looking back through CFE history:
Feb 2011: 610,705,062 Ordinary Shares, 8,000,000 unlisted options. @$0.60/share, M/C Approx $366M
June 2017: 810,686,586 Ord Shares, 23,500,000 unlisted options. @$.033/share, M/C Approx $26.7M
All up the shares have only been diluted approx 32%.
Large dividends have been paid over the course of company history with last dividend paid around August 2014. A major dividend of $0.217 was paid as announced 28/10/08. Dividends were paid while projects were earning large $ and sale of assets returning value to shareholders. http://www.marketindex.com.au/asx/cfe (refer company announcements/dividend notices)
Over the period since the company began the shares have also bagged out several times giving a lot of opportunity for those trading, although large dividends were paid at times over this period for those holding long term.
Possible trades over last 10 years:
Over period of 2006: Shares doubled
Over period of 2007: Share doubled
2008: Shares doubled again
2009: Shares tripled
2010: Shares doubled
Mid 2014: Shares doubled
CFE Price at posting:
3.3¢ Sentiment: Buy Disclosure: Held