I hope this is fairly self-explanatory and that the regulators will launch a swift enquiry if only to show that on the world’s most successful growth market, nothing so tawdry has occurred at that hotbed of scholars and gentlemen that is Tern PLC (TERN)
Yesterday, AIM-listed jam-tomorrow and running out of cash fast investment company Tern plc (TERN) announced that CEO Al Sisto had piled in to buy a whopping 200,000 shares via a subscription at 9.9p on Tuesday. The shares moved up by 6% in response – adding £2 million to the market capitalisation. But this is all a massive spoof.
We know that investee of AIM-listed jam-tomorrow investment company Tern plc (TERN), FundamentalVR (FVRVS), raised new money via a Series B funding round as announced on 31 May 2022, and again as announced on 11 August 2022 – the second of which cost Tern £1.5 million against the book value of its investment. On 28 July 2022, Tern chairman Ian Ritchie was announced to have bought 560,000 shares in Tern. This raises an interesting question.
AIM-listed jam-tomorrow investment company Tern plc (TERN) has issued a clarification with reference to a fundraise at investee FundamentalVR (FVRVS) which was announced on 11 August 2022. Can anyone explain how this can be correct?
I was puzzled by the re-announcement of the valuation by AIM-listed Tern (TERN) with regard to its holding in FundamentalVR (FVRVS). After all, this was due to a second issue of B-series shares on the same terms as the first. Surely, then, we knew all that already, and it would not have changed. Silly me - this is Tern, after all!
AIM-listed jam-tomorrow IoT investment company Tern (TERN) announced yesterday afternoon that investee Fundamental VR (FVRVS limited) had raised a further £5 million in a second tranche of the Series B fundraise first announced back in May. That seems positive, so why the immediate share price drop in the market?
I commented before that the proposed takeover of AIM-listed Pires Investments (PIRI) by AIM-listed jam-tomorrow investment company Tern (TERN) reminded me of Tom Winnifrith’s image of two drunks trying to prop each other up, as neither had any money. Today we learnt that they had fallen over each other and were lying in a heap on Paternoster Square.
AIM-listed jam-tomorrow IoT investment company Tern plc (TERN) has announced a recommended all-share deal to take over AM-listed Pires Investments (PIRI). The fanfare numbers are that Pires investors are getting a 54% premium to the previous closing price, with Tern’s shares priced at 15.5p, but that seems to me to be a spoof. One wonders why Pires' board took the deal…..
AIM-listed jam-tomorrow IoT investment company Tern plc (TERN) has announced a fundraise by investee FVRVS at a 77% premium to the previous book value of Tern’s holding. Well done Tern…..well sort of, because Tern put in no new cash, which raises an awkward question.
I’ve been taking a look through the annual report from Wyld, AIM-listed Tern’s second largest investment, for calendar 2021. Needless to say, there was no announcement form Tern over this…..
AIM-listed jam-tomorrow IoT investment company Tern plc (TERN) today provided an update in the form of its AGM statement. As ever, it is full of hyperbole but offers few hard numbers. The ShareProphets RNS Translation Service explains all…..
OK, we got it wrong over AIM-listed Tern (TERN) and the cost of converting its first round of warrants in Wyld with regard to needing an urgent placing. But the maths still suggests an imminent placing is needed to keep the lights on so whilst we have goofed on the specifics the general point was correct.
AIM-listed jam tomorrow IoT investment company Tern plc (TERN) badly needs to get a fundraise away as the closing date for cashing in its first round of warrants at Wyld, listed on the Nasdaq First North joke market in Stockholm approaches. I reckon it has got at best a couple of weeks and probably only one week before disaster strikes. The only question for me is whether the disaster will be the collapse of Wyld or just a massively discounted bucket shop placing-induced collapse in Tern’s share price.
Today Tern (TERN) published its results for the year ended 31 December 2021 and they showed a profit before tax of £4,578,321 which was a good result. Net asset value increased by 26% per share from 7.3 pence to 9.2 pence per share. Again good. But how does Tern manage to increase its NAV?
Tom Winnifrith pointed to yesterday morning’s RNS Reach from AIM-listed jam-tomorrow IoT investment company Tern plc (TERN), noting that in effect the investment made was worth around a grand. So even if it was a rampant success it would never make a jot of difference. But not satisfied with that Tern issued another RNS Reach intra-day detailing an internet of things standards project with reference to its biggest investee Device Authority. So was this any more significant?
As explained HERE, sub scale investor in crap companies Tern (TERN) needs to get a placing away by April Fool’s day or it is in deep merde. Hence a desperate attempt to ramp the shares ahead of a visit to the bucket shops for the discounted bailout. Even Tern could not bring itself to make today’s release an RNS. It is an RNS Reach meaning that it is financially immaterial. You will be amazed just how immaterial it is. As such this is a major red flag that a discounted placing is imminent so if you are buying shares in the market today you better lube up.
