Cloudbreak Discovery (#CDL) – £0.6m placing at 0.475p per share
- 2025-08-28 06:44:50
Formerly sub-Standard-listed, now “transition” category Cloudbreak Discovery (CDL) was a shambles from the start and I have been a growling bear ever since this nonsense listed. In November, under new-(ish) management, the shares were suspended at 0.15p. It listed in 2021 at 3p so my bearish growls were bang on the money. Or lack of it.
Sub-Standard listed Cloudbreak Discovery (CDL) released its results for the year to 30th June 2023 this morning. The release was partial (no auditor’s report), the Annual Report is yet to appear on the company’s website and it needs cash. What is clear that this is a corporate shit-show: having been on the market for just two years it has spunked £12 million in retained losses and the stated net asset value is just £2 million – and it gets worse….
Today Cloudbreak Discover (CDL) announced a new keep the lights on death spiral. In looking at this I saw that the (interim, following a sudden resignation last month) CEO is Andrew Male. That name rings a bell? Andrew Male, what the f**k is financial adviser Novum thinking? As John McEnroe used to scream “you cannot be serious?”
I have been a bear of sub-Standard-listed Cloudbreak Discovery (CDL) since it floated in June 2021 as Imperial X as it rushed to join the market before it had even changed its name, at 3p. The shares closed on Friday at a now low-point of just 0.625p so the shares are already down by some 79% in less than two years – and there is more pain to come. I said at the time it was an accident waiting to happen……
I warned in June of last year, when Cloudbreak DIscovery (CDL) joined the sub-Standard List (then as Imperial X) that a £10 million death spiral facility would be trouble for the then (at IPO) £11.7 million capitalised company, with the shares at 3p.
Death spirals have been a hot topic of conversation here on ShareProphets, the issue being whether they decimate share prices and are thus a major Red Flag. Tom pointed out here that there is no causal link but with Cloudbreak Discovery (CDL) of the sub-Standard List, there seems to be another issue.
On 26th August – just last Tuesday – I wondered whether another tranche of Death Spiral funding had been drawn by sub-Standard-Listed Cloudbreak Discovery (CDL). After all, the shares had just dropped to 1.425p per share and had been dropping fast. Well surprise, surprise, says Mystic Meg…..blow me down with a feather!
Sub-Standard-Listed Cloudbreak Discovery (CDL) shares have had an eventful existence since IPO in June last year. Listed at 3p, the stock collapsed down to around 1.4p within six months before an unusual series of boardroom trades ramped the shares up as high as 13.25p in March – when the company got a smash’n’grab placing away at 7.5p. Now they are down at just 1.425p: what on earth is going on?
Sub-Standard-Listed Cloudbreak Discovery (CDL) has announced an interesting looking deal to fund Iron Forge Holdings (III) Ltd (IF3) with a $1.5 million loan on seemingly advantageous terms. Interesting looking until one considers where the $1.5 million is coming from!
Having watched (sub)-Standard listed Cloudbreak Discovery (CDL) get a smash-and-grab placing away at 7.5p per share (a 20% discount to the prevailing price) back in March on the back of some “interesting” boardroom buying, I confidently predicted that the stock would slump back to the IPO price of 3p before too long. Well, it has done worse than that, now sitting not so far away from the all-time low, at 1.775p. And today comes news of a stack of options and warrants in a midday RNS entitled “Amendment to the Stateline Option Agreement”. Except that as far as I can make out, the meat was the issue of the best part of 10 million options and warrants to directors, PMDRs, other members of staff and consultants. Oh, and don’t forget the death spiral!
I cannot help but notice that sub-Standard-Listed Cloudbreak Discovery (CDL) is back below its IPO price of 3p, at 2.8p in the middle. Call me Mystic Meg – for having sailed up as high as 13.25p on a ridiculous ramp, I commented in April that the shares have since drifted down to just 4.6p and seem set to drop back below the IPO price in due course. Where’s my Ouzo?
I cannot help but notice that a good many of the shares of which I am a bear are dropping at the moment. With some, it is a case of the ramptastic froth being blown away. With others, it is surely a case of gravity asserting itself.
Standard-listed Cloudbreak Discovery (CDL) has announced its Interims to 31 December 2021 this morning, the 4th of April. If you think that is a tad late, you would be right, for the deadline was last Thursday – three months after period end – and as far as I know the shares should therefore have been suspended. But the Standard List is regulated (no sniggering at the back….) by the FCA. As for the numbers, they are a horror show for anyone who can use a calculator.
It was announced intra-day yesterday that sub-Standard Listed Cloudbreak Discovery (CDL) had raised £1.5 million (before expenses) in discounted placing at 7.5p a pop. This follows the miraculous rise of the shares which started ahead of the announcement of boardroom buying, which saw the shares rocket from around 1.75p to as high as over 13p yesterday, just before the announcement.
Just two weeks ago shares in sub-Standard-Listed Cloudbreak Discovery (CDL) were marooned at just 1.75p a pop – a hefty loss on the IPO price of 3p last June . Then they started rising and rising. A few days later it was announced that CEO Kyler Hardy had bought a stack of shares at 3p and sold some at 1.7p. Needless to say, there is no possibility of insider dealing……but now the shares have motored on up to 12p. What’s going on?
On Tuesday shares in sub-Standard-Listed Cloudbreak Discovery (CDL) were languishing at around 1.8p – a whopping 30% loss on the IPO price last June. But then they started to rise and rise…….and rise some more, closing yesterday at 3.85p in the middle. They had more than doubled in the spae of just four days. So what was the earth-shattering news? A massive gold discovery? A takeover? Er, no……
Sub-Standard-Listed Cloudbreak Discovery (CDL) added yet more Red Flags to its profile this morning on the release of an RNS at 7a this morning entitled “Final Results for the Year Ended 30 June 2021”. Just for a start, releasing FY numbers during no-one-is-watching week as investors are away from their desks between Christmas and New Year is an automatic Red Flag. But the RNS did not contain the results – only a management summary, telling the reader that “A full copy of the results is available on the company website”. Except at 7.30am this morning, that was not the case.






