ModusLink Global Solutions, Inc. Message Board

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The actual pricing of the ADSs will be determined by the exchange rate shortly after the close of the Rights Offer in Australia, which is now being extended to May 31st.
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NOW, depending on YOUR broker, they're going 2b giving you various figures - previously, I posted that Ameritrade told me there was a $38 special charge.

I believe the reason YOUR broker is saying 57 cents is NOT that that is the price - what they're doing is giving themselves room for a possible change in the exchange rate - in this case, the rate is going in our favor at present. My guess is that they would refund any amount over what the final cost is (unless they've got a special charge like Ameritrade)

Finally, way back, I asked this board if anyone had run the Black-Scholes figure on the warrants which a buyer would receive in this offer. In a recent release, SSN gave the BS (lol) figure at 9.6 cents per ADS. That is a THEORETICAL figure, but it still lowers the cost of the "bundle" if you think of it that way.

Now, IF (big IF), you believe that the ADS will be higher than 79 cents in the next 4 years, then this is a honking good deal - free warrants to buy more shares at a fixed price.

It's not unusual to see this type of offering extended. That usually means they're looking for more holders to exercise. It will be interesting to see how many subscribe.

GLTU

rogere, if you look at the recent announcement of the increase in reserves, you'll see that SSN has extended the U.S. offering to May 24:

Following the Company’s recent $3.3 million direct registered offering of ADS and warrants to US institutional investors, Samson’s Board of Directors determined to make the same offer as a registered Rights Offer in order to be fair to all Samson shareholders. The Rights Offer is being made to holders of ordinary shares traded on the ASX and to holders of American Depositary Shares (ADSs) traded on the NYSE MKT In light of persistent delays in delivery of the printed prospectuses to U.S. holders, however, and to permit shareholders to consider a series of recent positive developments announced by the Company, including the 61% increase in Proved Reserve detailed below, Samson has decided to extend the Rights Offer until Friday, May 24th in the US and until Friday May 31st in Australia, 2013 and to issue this release explaining some of the reasons for that extension.

More interesting is that since the offering was announced, the US exchange rate has increased against the AU$, so that makes the PROJECTED (won't be figured til the end) price for the ADS about 50 cents US:
Because of Samson’s share structure, the Rights Offer is required to be priced in Australian currency and as underlying ordinary shares (each ADS traded on the NYSE MKT represents 20 underlying shares). Accordingly, the price set for the Rights Offer was 2.5 cents Australian per underlying ordinary share. At the time the US prospectus was filed, the exchange rate was $1.0457 per Australian dollar, which translated to an Offer Price of $0.52 per ADS. Since that time, the Australian dollar has weakened, to $0.9989 per Australian dollar as at the date of this release, which translates to an Offer price of $0.50 per ADS. The actual pricing of the ADSs will be determined by the exchange rate shortly after the close of the Rights Offer in Australia, which is now being

Latest reports have NOT been added to the inst. holdings sites. My guess is that holdings will be 69-70% when fully updated.
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Sr. Falconi, I see nuedextra listed on the pending EC decisions list link you gave us.

tevanj, I put up a link to some previous posts. Case # is 11-704-LPS

tevanj, the patent suit was filed back in Aug 2011 in Del. dst court. If you follow this thread back, you should see some of the initial dockets. I can give you the case # if you have PACER, but you can also just query Actavis or Avanir to get it.

seun, most of the "drop" can be attributed to the increase in the # of shares o/s.

From yesterday's 10Q (pg 27):
On August 10, 2012, our Board of Directors authorized the repurchase of up to $100 million of our outstanding common stock through August 1, 2013. The previous authorization was for up to $25 million and covered the period through December 31, 2012. During the three months ended March 31, 2013, we repurchased 235,000 shares of our common stock for an aggregate purchase price of $1.7 million. We have purchased an aggregate to date of $13.6 million or 1,338,055 shares. All shares of treasury stock were retired at March 31, 2013.
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By my calc, SPPI paid around $7.23/share for those 235,000 shares.

They placed some shares with inst. investors - I believe Christine said $19M - this is under their agreement with Cowen.

Earnings for Q1 last year were announced May 8. Previous year was May 10. I believe AMRN is an accelerated filer, which means they have to file 10Q by the 10th.

Thanks, I'll put my order in now.