"One of the issues I think the managment needs to address is the lack of Australian institutional support for the stock. This is reflected in the the very small trading volumes and size of average trades which is less than $5,000."
Liquidity in PSA is good for short term traders, as it makes the share price more volatile.
Nobody knows better than yourself, about the volatility in PSA .... :)
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Just how thin is this market ..... ??
At 96 cents, about 100,000 were dribbled onto the market over about one hour and it still went down 10 cents or more ..... and that day the total volume was about 500k.
..... then the bargain hunters moved in and the stock finished at 94, at the close .....
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Anyway, PSA does have a unique problem here, largely caused by their own success and the tight holding of the Top 20 = 70% (?) of the issued scrip, which does not leave a lot for traders, leave alone any institutions.
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Institutions will not be interested until they can exit their holdings, without decimating the price.
So, improving the liquidity presents a challenge for the management .....
..... issue more shares ? They don't need more money right now and any issue will be negative for the short-term share price ..... and an issue to the instos may not help the liquidity problem anyway, as they are likely to be longer-term holders.
Raising more cash for the sake of expanding is probably not on the PSA agenda, after their previous experiences, either .....
..... though expanding their operations may help to move their fortunes up the ASX indices .....??
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Tricky stuff ..... of course, as the price rallies some of the shares from the Top 20 may come onto the market, which would improve the liquidity in the short term, at least.
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Better still ..... a takeover by a bigger player would be nice ..... :) :) :) ..... living in hope.
That would solve it !~!
happy trading all
yogi
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