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Crossject

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Things are getting going...hopefully
Target
Upside 285%
Price (€) 1.91
Market Cap (€M) 78.8
Perf. 1W: -8.17%
Perf. 1M: -2.05%
Perf. 3M: -14.7%
Perf Ytd: -61.2%
10 day relative perf. to stoxx600: -5.33%
20 day relative perf. to stoxx600: -8.26%
Financing issue 23/12/2019 19:59

Extra-financing to increase visibility

Fact

Crossject announced it has issued zero-coupon convertible bonds (€5.7m) at 92% of their nominal value, maturing on 31 December 2021, convertible at the lowest price between €2.30 and an average market price less 10%. Gemmes Venture (Crossject’s main shareholder) has invested €2.1m in this issue, in line with its shareholding.


Analysis

If the timing came a bit as a surprise, although forecasting it is impossible, the move is not. After the €2.6m structured financing agreed upon last month (see our Latest dated 19 November), this new issue will enable the group to finance the year to come. In short, and after the exercise of options (€3.2m), the group has raised c. €11.5m to which should be added public incentives (PIAVE, tax credit…) leading to a total of €13.4m to finance the company. In October, management had estimated Crossject would need c.€12m to finance its development over the next twelve months, so the issue is perfectly in line with expectations in terms of size. Obviously, there could/will be a dilutive impact once the bonds are converted. At today’s price (€1.91 on Friday), this would lead to the creation of 3.68m shares (i.e. 18.5% of the total 19.72m diluted shares). All in all, we consider the issue as positive insofar as it secures the group’s need for the year to come, which should see the first market approvals. That said, the implied dilution will take its toll on our valuation, despite the cash inflow. We will adjust our numbers, considering that the conversion will take place at €2.3 (which implies that the share price will have gone up between now and the day of conversion), reducing the dilution to some 13.5%.


Impact

We will adjust our numbers, considering that the bonds will be converted at some stage during FY20. The current price is penalising, and it is likely that a real conversion will in fact take place at a higher price than today’s, thus our choice to use the €2.3 as the conversion price in FY20.


Updates

29 Mar 20 Earnings/sales releases
Meaningless FY19 results and product update

23 Dec 19 Financing issue
Extra-financing to increase visibility

20 Nov 19 Financing issue
A €2.6m non-dilutive issue

10 Sep 19 Earnings/sales releases
H1 19: no surprise

10 Jul 19 Financing issue
Warrants to existing shareholders

19 Jun 19 Latest
A commercial success

18 Apr 19 EPS change
The 2018 bonds fully converted

18 Mar 19 EPS change
No major change post FY18 results

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