First, with all the news they will have coming out
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they will not need a r/s, the otc is an irrational animal. ACOL,recently hit .06
on 5 billion shares. One would only do a r/s if the news wasn't there to propell the stock. HJOE will have plenty of that and then some.
Second, HJOE has at their disposal the ability to use Preferred shares Series{A,D,E, F shares}for a stock swap based on a ratio to retire outstanding
retail shares. It behooves mgt, because they will make more this way on their own holdings. They can also purchase shares to eliminate them
Third, beverage companies usually have larger floats than most stocks. HJOE
only need to get it down to 800-900m to do some serious damage. Funds/fund managers love beverage companies, cause they grow/accelerate revenue wise faster than most other industries. Thus, a larger float isn't a huge detriment, as long as it's manageable.
I can't see the company going that route before opening up. Wouldn't make sense, since the news will be plentiful and they can make more themselves by other float reduction strategies.
They could have r/s this a long time ago and still be trading/paid off their debt. I think they will take the higher road and swap. Then, comes the pain train when the float
is reduced via swaps and retiring commons. If HJOE does that, down the road
they can put several million shares back into the float and self finance operations.
Jmho,
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