As a rule of thumb, when a company has a name change and a share consolidation it is not good news for the share price. Short term, the shares of AIM listed oil play Echo Energy (ECHO), formerly known as Independent Resources, have been an exception to that rule.
It’s not often that I comment on an RNS entitled Total Voting Rights, but I had been waiting for yesterday’s RNS from Echo Energy (ECHO). In my view, there has been an abuse of AIM rules, or, at the very least, the spirit of the rules, and I believe Echo has just one simple aim, namely to keep the average PI in the dark for as long as possible to enable certain parties to cash in big. Please allow me to explain.
My last piece rather naively thought that Echo Energy’s (ECHO) new institutional equity investor, Spartan Fund, or Pegasus Fund as it became, would want to put its funds in at a fair valuation and thought the share price would go down. I was wrong and must assume that it is all part of the connected group of institutions and individuals here that have led to an insane valuation that appears to indicate that the mere mention of James Parsons is worth £100 million. That is nonsense and this is a massive sell.
I’ve been scratching my head over the funding plans announced by the newly re-named Echo Energy (ECHO) earlier this week as there is an unusual aspect to it and can’t believe that the share price won’t drop in the short term as a result. Let me explain.
