When companies implement rights issue and the mother share price is hovering near or below the rights issue price, warrants are often thrown in as a sweetener to entice shareholders to take up the rights issue. Judging from the price performance of the warrants listed this year as a result of rights issues with free warrants, it appears that this “sweetener” or “desert” is performing much better than the mother share or “main course”.
Shareholders very often have to take a hit with the share price as some of them trade below the rights issue price for a while before the recent market rally take them higher. Nevertheless, the performance of the warrants have been much stronger compared to the mother share. We take a look at three cases where companies had implemented rights issue this year and observe the price performance of the warrants.
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