Financing 101 - Down Round - No Bueno Aston is a junior mining company. Like almost all junior mining comapnies, ASton needs to be able to riase money in order to funds its ongoing operations. Why? Because like almost all junior mining comapnies, Aston has no revenues.
Now Aston needs to raise money fairly quickly in my opinion. Why? Well becasue they haev none and actually owe their CEO more than $500k because HE has been loaning them money to stay afloat. Odd if yuo ask me.
So it shoudl be as easy as giong to the market, issuing more shares and getting yuor money right? Not so. The issue here is that the sahre price is LOWER than the last time they raised money; this is ever after the "excellent", "world class" drill results from last year - by the way I agree with the market and didnt think they were that great.
So if yuo haev a down round of financing, everybody that invested EARLY has lost money. They wodul haev been better to NOT invest and to WAIT. This is the issue facing ASton now. Nobody wants to invest MORE NOW.
In the Tech world (as on teh TV show Silicon Valley) a down round of financing spells the end for a comapny's equity holders. Its not quite that serious in mining but the song remains the same; why woudl I give yuo more to invest when you have not produced a return on teh money I already gave you.
Ignore financing requirements at your own peril; new money is teh lifeblood of junionr mining and a down round is NOT a good sign.
The question now comes......how to get the share price up?
P.S - I am not bashing - I am actually long ASton Bay - but i am not about to start pimping a stock just becasue I own it