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Ann: Successful Completion of $120m Underwritten Placement, page-64

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    It really isn't.

    They raised multiple times what they needed 2 months ago. They earmarked that as "inventory".

    This presentation splits:
    Current Cash: $146m
    - "Committed Inventory Spend" - $45m
    - "Expected inventory spend" - $50m
    - Other (working capital and R&D) - $51m

    This comes with some obvious notes that we can make...
    - If you spend $45m of inventory (committed), there should be about $100m of sales out of that in the not-too-distant future (depending on the profit margin). So then you'll have cash in the next couple of months. Couldn't that go to the expected inventory? Or the new R&D projects?
    - Expected inventory spend - kinda feels like a placeholder. They'll get cash from their other inventory. If they had committed to spending this, it would be above. They haven't. They just like having it in case.
    - $51m funding for "current R&D programs, inventory requirements and working capital" is very vague. For starter, they just finished earmarking $95m towards inventory. To say that part of this $51m is also inventory feels like they're just saying "etcetera". We get their quarterlies, we know that working capital ex-inventory is about $4m last quarter. They're also making sales and are profitable. So let's say that $10m of that $51m is reasonable. That leaves $41m of R&D, which they didn't plan on 2 months ago.

    So in the last 2 months, they've made plans for $41m of R&D, and now another $90m of R&D, which they've basically just said "AI" and hoped that will explain it.

    You can't blame shareholders for questioning it given a complete lack of information.
 
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