There is only about 260m shares on issue currently.
Interesting to note thate before the acquisition of Takatu there was only 56m shares on issue with a market cap of $4m.
As part of the acquisition there was the issue of 12.6m unlisted options excercisable at 4 cents and 10m unlisted options excercisable at 18 cents with both expiring on 31/12/2012.
106m shares issued to Takatu shareholders are in escrow for 6 months. That is almost half the registry! They were issued in 21 December 2009 so they come out of escrow on 21 June.
The worry is that there is a large dumping when the shares come out of escrow. Also, the 4 cent oppies are in the money but i cant seem to find if these are in escrow or not? It would be very easy to excercise and dump forcing the share price down whilst taking an almost 100% profit.
In reality, it obviously can't happen exactly like this for the following reasons:
There is no volumes on the buy side.
30% of the shares issued for the acquisition went to instos who held Takatu shares, so I would assume that if they were willing to hold Takatu, they'd be willing to hold EPS.
And share placements were done at 7 cents, so those holders won't be selling.
Thoughts?
Does anyone know the deal with the 4 cent oppies?
UAO
EPS Price at posting:
7.1¢ Sentiment: Buy Disclosure: Not Held