RE:RE:RE:Hedge or dilute? How about NEITHER!AlfTanner wrote: If you are worried about RP2.0, then you should be even more angry with bone headed management.
That ridiculous dilution they did was mostly needed to pay for Caribou. If bone headed management had just waited a few quarters, they could have opened Caribou with cash on hand, and they could have hedged Caribou production at a zinc price that would have actually made Caribou very profitable. Those Caribou profits could have been used to pay for RP2.0. Instead, shareholders got diluted, and Caribou will operate around breakeven, so this fiasco will not help with RP2.0 at all.
The hedging that bone headed management has done will only serve to depress profits and leave LESS money for RP2.0.
If you are worried about paying for RP2.0, bone headed management just made that a lot more difficult.
What should bone headed management do now that they have squandered so much investor money? They should wait for zinc to hit $1.50. Then they should hedge enough production to pay for RP2.0 in exchange for loans to pay for it. They should have no problem getting loans if there are hedges in place to guarantee that the loans will be paid. You see, I have no problem at all with hedging if it is done at the right price.
I have a big problem with hedging if it is done by impatient children who cannot figure out when zinc is in a bull market.
I've mentioned this in the past... We cannot guarantee that Glencore will give us a higher price for hedging. Relative to the much needed RP2.0 project, we have no money. Even with no hedging in place, at current zinc prices, we will not have enough money to fund said project by year end. So in the end, it's either dilution or hedge now to show crediors over a period 2 good quarters that we sustainable and low risk for loan to find the project. Okay imagine this... Another pandemic wave happens and zinc prices tank. Who looks more like to survive from a creditors perspective? The company with hedges in place or the company that put all their eggs in one basket because we are in a "zinc bull market"?