Updated conversion information:
The conversion price today climbed to 4.70 today from yesterday's 4.55. The 4.70 price is good until one minute before noon ET tomorrow.
Here are the closing bids for the last ten days, and a forecast what will happen if the closing bid remains at today's closing bid of 6 1/16 through the next week:
Date Bid 27-Aug 4.3125 Was only good to noon Monday. 30-Aug 4.3438 Was only good to noon Tuesday.
31-Aug 4.3125 Became stale today, and drops out by noon tomorrow. 1-Sep 4.2500 2-Sep 4.5625 3-Sep 4.6875 Conversion 7-Sep 4.8750 Price Shares Lost each day 8-Sep 5.6250 4.4240 1,771,500 0 9-Sep 5.3750 4.4240 1,771,500 0 10-Sep 5.2500 4.4556 1,759,000 12,500 13-Sep 5.7500 4.5503 1,722,400 36,600 14-Sep 6.0625 4.7028 1,666,600 55,800
Forecast if bid remains unchanged from current bid of 6.0625 :
Conversion Date Bid Price Shares Lost each day
15-Sep 6.0625 4.8817 1,605,500 61,100 16-Sep 6.0625 5.1131 1,532,800 72,700 17-Sep 6.0625 5.3130 1,475,100 57,700 20-Sep 6.0625 5.5445 1,413,600 61,500 21-Sep 6.0625 5.7444 1,364,400 49,200 22-Sep 6.0625 5.8180 1,347,100 17,300 23-Sep 6.0625 5.9338 1,320,800 26,300 24-Sep 6.0625 6.0705 This is above the fixed conversion price, and the remaining 21,100 shares earned through the variable conversion are lost.
Total lost 471,800
Paul |