RE:My letter to Dale Thanks for sharing UpinMuskoka. Please let us know if you hear from Dale. I am convinced he will get back to you. I am not sure he will want to say too much in writing, but maybe set a call with him.
upinmuskoka1 wrote: Enough is enough.
After watching the value of my CREW shares shrink by over $700k in the last two years I have sent Dale my second letter i the last 18 months. However this time I am not expecting a reply.
Dale
I last wrote you back in February 2023 to express my concerns regarding the then tumbling share price ($4.17-$4.25 range). You sent me a lengthy reply which I was very surprised and I did really appreciate. In your reply you said that you shared my frustration and acknowledged that Crew had definitely underperformed its peers.
You also said that Crew buys shares in the market to settle stock based compensation for our employees and that this was responsible for Crew’s very low levels of dilution over the last number of years. I notice that plan has since been rescinded at the last AGM. Too bad because you could be buying a boatload of shares at present value. Dale maybe you could explain to me why any of Crew’s executive team is at all entitled to any performance awards considering how the share price has cratered.
I am a 100% against any dilution of the common shares at Crew’s present share value.
At the time your reply put my fears to rest and I too replied back that because you and other insiders had so much skin in the game at Crew, it was my number one reason for waiting out the hard times in the NG industry and keep holding onto my 220k Crew shares.
Fast forward 18 months later and absolutely nothing has changed regarding the share price in fact as you know it is languishing at an even lower price than when I last wrote you. This is totally unacceptable to me and I wonder how long you will let the carnage in the stock price persist before you right the ship. Yes, all O&G companies stocks have been hit hard but Crew has been hit the hardest by far.
Why?
Well maybe because your four year plan for Crew will probably never materialize. And if it ever does it will take much longer than the 2026 original time frame you originally anticipated when your plan was presented to the market in 2022 just before the NG price crashed. To put it bluntly the market sees investing in Crew at present as dead money. Crew is a small company and even if and when the four year plan is implemented it will still be just that, a small company.
Your constant mantra in monthly presentations of creating value for Crew stakeholders has worn thin and has not materialized in the least. How long are we stakeholders expected to wait Dale? I have been a shareholder since 2017 and would be severely underwater had not COVID enabled me to buy the bulk of my investment at a sub $1 price.
I like you Dale am in my mid-sixties and I was hoping to use my Crew investment as an ongoing income source for my upcoming retirement. It sure seemed like a pretty safe investment especially when Crew almost hit $7.00 just a couple years ago. Today I am not so sure. Yes I know that Crew has immense value but when will that value ever be unlocked? Dale it seems to me that by running Crew as your own private company it does not benefit me or any of the other long time stakeholders in the least. Crew must I remind you is a public company of which I own a pretty big stake. I am getting increasingly frustrated waiting to realize Crew’s full potential and see a healthy return on my large investment.
Dale maybe it is time for you to seriously consider other alternatives for creating value for all Crew stakeholders. You stand to gain a huge financial profit on your 8 million plus shares and I too will be very happy to reap a nice tidy profit on my investment.
Let’s ride into the retirement sunset together Dale.
It’s your call.