Capital raise, expected to resume trade tomorrow morning (March 1).
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I am invested in ZIP longer term and have not seen the details for a cap raise but it does seem crazy to perform a cap raise right in the middle of a current global tech correction.
If they are raising a lot of money at a discount to the current price that is just giving away so much of the company for not much value at all.
The only small win here is if they are buying out a BNPL competitor they will also be at a very discounted price so it would be a like for like situation in regards to massively lower purchase price for the competitor I would expect - all BNPL companies are in oversold currently, some more than others - ZIP being one of the worst in relation to how much revenue then receive.
If they are raising bulk funds just for the sake of having money in the bank to operate when they already have some decent amount of money in the bank that would be a bit disappointing. ZIP could really just choose to stop expanding so much right now in these tougher economic times and focus on banking their profit to bring in cash, which they have said they can do at any time in past meetings.
I sure hope these terms and funds are critically needed and used in the right way. As ZIP are in massively oversold territory here and would seem silly to be cap raising now if not for strategically important need.