RE:RE:RE:RE:News outepz wrote: There is zero reason to be giving vern 2.5M options. That is insane. The guy is getting promoted we didn't pouch him from another company. Same goes for DR why he gets 250K in free options is beyond me. Worse than that is giving themselves sweetheart PP with free warrants. WTF do they need money for? They should be focused on one thing and that is paying down debt and collecting from companies that owe money. When they go to renew the debs they're not going to be at nearly as good as a rate and with their track record they're barely earning above the debs/SG&A.
You can only blame the CEO so many times! All the other people are at fault as well. McLarty's deal might not be too bad if it avoids him getting money in a year once he gets fired/leaves and takes a bunch of money. Unfortunetley, I think he just wants a free loan so he can collect a ton of undervalued shares with warrants to boot. Must be nice!
From my coversations with the company, and there have been many, I've never once heard any praise given to Catherine but she collects her $300k salary. Yes she has a ton of shares from her Troon days but I'd like to know her value.
Honestly if you axed everyone from the company but a CEO and CFO and paid down debt and did 4 deals a year you'd be better off. I'd love to know what they fill their day with. How hard is it to go through SME that want money? They're not going to have complex financial statements.
As you can tell I'm beyond frustrated with these misfits. This is so undervalued but run by a bunch of incompetant individuals.
I share your frustration, but I don't know where you're getting some of your information.
Vernon and Catherine are directors. Their cash compensation, as listed in the June 2017 information circular, is 50K per year or less each. Not sure where you're getting Catherine's salary at $300k. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
It's murky to me how this company is organized. They've had Vernon, who is a director, serving as chair of the investment committee. It appears that he has been doing a fair bit of work on deal origination and composition, in which case he is working beyond the typical role of a director. I suspect that the options are an attempt to compensate / retain him in his new expanded role while limiting cash SG&A. We'll have to see what his cash compensation looks like now that he's Executive Chair.
Lobo also has a reasonable amount of skin in the game, having bought meaningful amounts of stock and debentures in the market over the past couple years. I would assume he'll also be taking a good chunk of the $900k PP. So he's well aligned, and at the very least he only joined in mid-2016 so he didn't have anything to do with the many large early failed investments.
Some of those early deals are total head-scratchers. Interesting that they note in the latest PR how he has led them to look for "better security interests" in their deals. Seems ilke a bit of a no-brainer given their business model, doesn't it?
I will say again that, as gratuitous as this is, it is far from the worst I've seen. They at least had the sense to do the options and PP at premium to market!
Questions:
- Why the PP? Just an opportunistic grab at low prices? Probably. Hard to see it being a desperate need for $900k.
- Will McLarty be named CEO (not acting) when his services agreement is renewed?