UK 21:07 Saturday, 3 October 2026
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Now approaching a month ago when the shares closed at above 2.5p, it was clear that Versarien (VRS) required a bailout placing and we launched a prize sweepstake to name the placing price and, as a tie breaker, the price the day before the placing – with the prize 500ml of Tom’s Greek Hovel olive oil. Versarien duly obliged earlier this week at a massively discounted (natch) to the prior closing 2.0625p share price, 1.25p. And the winner is...
…Pete Brailey as the only entrant with 1.25p. Tom Winnifrith was close at 1.2p (tie break 2p) and cuthbert (2.05p) and Phil B (2.1p) close with their tie breakers but with respectively 1.9p and 1.35p as their placing prices.
Even then, the company was being over-estimated then! And with only a desperate £531,624 (gross) raised, it looks like cash crunch postponed by only 2 months at most – and then what?!
Natch, still, now at 1.2p, a prospective £3.2 million market cap, longest possible Bargepole / Sell.
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