Can a British Birthday Bash Move the Stock Market
Can a British Birthday Bash Move the Stock Market
Can signals to the market be accidental
Real or Imagined
Implied or Not Implied
The Stock of Virgin Galactic’s SPCE rallied 22% after Tom Cruise did the splits in London and Victoria Beckham was carried piggyback
Is art imitating life on Wall Steet?
Can a birthday party bash of one of the Virgin Records Label previous artists possibly have an influence on the stock price of the previous records labels owners Space Stock that announced a stock split 18th April 2024.
Could these two seemingly unrelated events be perceived as signalling the market using the media?
Without even realising
Examples of piggy backing
Piggyback registration refers to a method of selling shares through an initial public offering (IPO). It is typically used by early investors, founders, and other company insiders who negotiated the right to sell their shares as part of any future IPO.
Unlike demand registration, where shareholders are entitled to demand that a company undertake an IPO, investors relying on piggyback registration to sell their shares do not have the right to force an IPO. Instead, they must wait for the IPO to be demanded by other investors, effectively “piggybacking” on other investors’ demand registration rights.
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/piggybackregistration.asp
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1706946/000119312520054071/d903370ds1a.htm
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1317833/000121390006000685/fsb2ex992_signet.htm
The birthday girl was carried out of the club by her husband at 2.30am. Photographs show the designer receiving a piggy back from David as they left the venue, with her children in tow. Sharing snaps on social media after the event, Victoria posted, ‘I don’t think I’ve ever felt as loved as I did last night
Examples of Splits
Is art imitating life or life imitating art?
Cruise, who turned 61 in July 2023, stunned guests when he began demonstrating “a series of breakdancing moves, culminating in splits,” the outlet said. “People were absolutely dumbfounded,” one guest told the Daily Mail.
A-list actor left guests at Victoria Beckham‘s 50th birthday party in London on Saturday night slack jawed in astonishment after performing an incredible ‘breakdance’ routine – which culminated in the splits
April 19th
April 18th
https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1706946/000130817924000522/spce4271571-pre14a.htm
Market Effect
22% stock Increase in 1 day
Virgin Galactic’s SPCE stock rose on no apparent news, allowing the aerospace and space-tourism company to snap a two-day losing streak.
Statement 2019
https://www.space.com/43113-richard-branson-virgin-galactic-commercial-flights-2019.html
“I will hope to go up in the middle of this year myself,” Branson said. “We’ve got another test flight in a handful of weeks taking place from Mojave, then we’ll have another one a few weeks later, then another one. And then, we move everything to New Mexico where we have a beautiful spaceport.”
Stock Split
the Board approved the proposed amendments to our Certificate of Incorporation to potentially effect the Reverse Stock Split in order to increase our number of authorized shares of common stock available for future issuance. Under the Certificate of Incorporation, we have 700,000,000 authorized shares of Common Stock and 10,000,000 authorized shares of preferred stock, par value $0.0001 per share. As of the Record Date, there were 411,301,869 shares of common stock issued and outstanding and no shares of preferred stock issued and outstanding. Because the Reverse Stock Split will decrease the number of outstanding shares of our common stock by a ratio in the range of 1-for-2 to 1-for-20 but would not effect a decrease to the number of shares of common stock that we will be authorized to issue, the proposed Reverse Stock Split amendments would result in a relative increase in the number of unissued shares of our Common Stock. See “–Principal Effects of the Reverse Stock Split-Issued and Outstanding Shares of Common Stock” below.
Our Board believes it is in the best interests of the Company and our stockholders to increase our number of authorized shares of common stock available for future issuance in order to have additional shares available for use as our Board deems appropriate or necessary. As such, the Reverse Stock Split will provide the Company with greater flexibility with respect to managing its common stock in connection with such corporate purposes as may, from time to time, be considered advisable by our Board. These corporate purposes could include, without limitation, financing activities, public or private offerings of common stock, issuance of options and other equity awards pursuant to our incentive plans, and strategic business development transactions. Having an increased number of authorized but unissued shares of common stock would allow us to take prompt action with respect to corporate opportunities that develop, without the delay and expense of convening a special meeting of stockholders for the purpose of approving an increase in our capitalization.
Maintain NYSE Listing
Our common stock is currently listed on the NYSE under the symbol “SPCE.” The continued listing requirements of NYSE, among other things, require that our common stock must maintain a minimum average closing share price of $1.00 per share of common stock over a consecutive 30 trading-day period. On the Record Date, our last reported sale price of our common stock on the NYSE was $0.9427 per share. If we were to fail to meet the minimum bid price requirement in the future over a consecutive 30 trading-day period, our common stock could be delisted from the NYSE. If our common stock were to be delisted, the Board believes that the trading market for our common stock could become significantly less liquid, which could reduce the trading price of our common stock and increase the transaction costs of trading in shares of our common stock.
If the Reverse Stock Split amendment is effected, it would cause a decrease in the total number of shares of our common stock outstanding and increase the market price per share of our common stock. The Board intends to effect the Reverse Stock Split only if it believes that a decrease in the number of shares outstanding is in the best interests of the Company and our stockholders and is likely to improve the trading price of our common stock and improve the likelihood that we will be able to maintain our listing on the NYSE.
Reverse Stock Split ratio to be selected by our Board will be a whole number in a range of 1-for-2 to 1-for-20. The Board can only authorize the filing of one Reverse Stock Split amendment and all other Reverse Stock Split amendments will be abandoned. The Board also has the authority to abandon all Reverse Stock Split amendments.
In determining the Reverse Stock Split ratio and whether and when to effect the Reverse Stock Split following the receipt of stockholder approval, the Board will consider a number of factors, including, without limitation:
| ● | the historical trading price and trading volume of our common stock; |
| ● | the number of shares of our common stock outstanding immediately before and after the Reverse Stock Split; |
Pg 81 & 82 of Annual Meeting 18th April 2024
Legal Team
Latham & Watkins
Justin Hamill of Latham & Watkins believes that Richard Branson, the enigmatic leader of Virgin Group, is a. “visionary.”
https://www.lw.com/en/people/justin-hamill
- Virgin Galactic in its US$1.5 billion merger with Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings
- Virgin Orbit in its US$3.2 billion merger with NextGen Acquisition Corp. II
- Virgin Orbit Holdings, Inc., in connection with its voluntary chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings in order to effectuate a sale of the business
Performance Virgin Galactic’s SPCE
| 5 Day | -7.72% |
| 1 Month | -40.42% |
| 3 Month | -56.72% |
| YTD | -64.49% |
| 1 Year | -72.73% |
https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/spce
So, when Virgin called him up to help secure more funding for his commercial space company, Virgin
Galactic, Hamill was excited for the opportunity.
“It’s not every day you get to work on a deal involving space travel,” Hamill says.
After two successful launches of Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity in 2018 and 2019, the company decided that it had reached the stage where it needed capital to expand its commercial operations. The company’s initial public offering was unique in that it employed a special-purpose acquisition company, or SPAC: Social Capital Hedosophia, which is run by former Facebook executive Chamath Palihapitiya. As opposedto a traditional IPO, individual SPAC investors have a vote on the deal and can redeem their cash if they don’t like it.
In addition to the complexities of the SPAC and preparing a company to go public, Hamill and his team were faced with unique regulatory issues surrounding space technology, cross-border tax considerations, go-forward governance and liquidity arrangements for Virgin Group.
In the end, Virgin Group retained 51% ownership of the company to preserve a majority, with Social Capital Hedosophia investing $800 million for 49%, making Virgin Galactic the first publicly traded space tourism company in the world. The deal also executed a pre-merger carve-out of Virgin Group’s space satellite business, Virgin Orbit, which remained wholly owned by Branson and Virgin Group.
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Selling Stock
Branson, through his Virgin Investments group, sold 10.4 million shares of Virgin Galactic this week at various prices, ranging from $25.75 to $34.39 a share, according to an SEC filing. The stake was worth $300 million, according to InsiderScore.com. Shares of Virgin Galactic slipped 2.2% to close at $25.37.13 Aug 2021
Richard Branson made around $1.4 billion by selling Virgin Galactic shares
1 Dec 2021 — Richard Branson sold another $US300 million ($421 million) in Virgin Galactic stock, tapping his biggest listed asset
FAA license Granted 2021
The adjustment to Virgin Galactic’s operator’s license, which the Company has held since 2016, marks the first time the FAA has licensed a spaceline to fly customers. It is further validation of the Company’s methodical testing program, which has met the verification and validation criteria required by the FAA.25 June 2021
Yet in 2019 this statement was made
Statement 2019
https://www.space.com/43113-richard-branson-virgin-galactic-commercial-flights-2019.html
“I will hope to go up in the middle of this year myself,” Branson said. “We’ve got another test flight in a handful of weeks taking place from Mojave, then we’ll have another one a few weeks later, then another one. And then, we move everything to New Mexico where we have a beautiful spaceport.”
License Term 2 years 2022
License Term: The term of License No. LRLO 16-092 authorizing VG to conduct RLV missions is two (2) yearsfrom July 29, 2022.
https://www.virgin.com/about-virgin/latest/virgin-galactic-gains-licence-for-commercial-spaceflights
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