Nach meiner deutlichen Erinnerung hat PlayMagnus IR prompt und umfassend geantwortet...
Hi...,
Thank you for your feedback around the offer, we appreciate your long-term support of Play Magnus.
We understand that as a strong supporter and believer of Play Magnus long-term you believe the offer price should be higher. This is a fair view point and we would just like to offer a few points of rationale so that it perhaps is more apparent as to how the decision came about.
As you are aware, the market conditions have changed quite substantially since the end of 2021. This has unfortunately, negatively impacted our business performance and has led to a revenue slowdown in the first two quarters of this year, including a sequential decline from Q4'21 to Q1'22 to Q2'22 from $6.3M to $6.1M to $5.9M. I believe we first mentioned in the Q1 presentation that the growth was slowing, and discussed again at the Q2 presentation, balancing growth and profitability has certainly become more challenging.
While the trend is showing some signs of stabilizing, further significant growth near-term is tough to predict at the moment with confidence. As we've highlighted before, our business plan for 2022 involved significant revenue growth in order to achieve profitability and with a more challenging macro environment, we have taken steps to reduce costs and try to get to profitability but risks and uncertainty have no doubt still increased even as we still have long-term belief in the company.
With this in mind, and as was mentioned in our Q2 report, as we received the offer from chess.com, the Board believes that the offer premium of 44% to the 3month trading is significant and attractive. Looking at how other peers have been performing on the Norwegian market over the past month, it's possible that this premium would have been even higher should the offer have come today. Importantly, we would also mention that it's necessary to consider the offer in the context of the valuation multiples across our peers and our growth rates rather than historical share prices.
The Offer Document was published on Sept 6th, as per our press release and can also be found on seb.no.
Regards, ... |