If there was a sufficient amount of buyers all the converted shares would transact to cash and the stock price would go up not down. The fact that the share price has to drop 22% in one day just to find a buyer tells you that.
As for Saleen's need for funding they have averaged a monthly loss of ($812K) over the last twelve months. That includes revenue. There is no possibility that they are generating positive cash flow. ZERO possibility for the following reasons:
1) Saleen does not have enough cash to buy enough Inventory to produce enough cars to make a profit Even if they made $10K gross margin per car tuned they would Need to produce 81 more cars per month than they have averaged over the last twelve months . Saleen has averaged 9 car sales per month so their break-even point is about 90 cars per month if they made $10K Gross Margin per car (which they do not).
2) the White Label model will only lose money. There is no profit in a $42K Saleen Mustang.
3) the Debt needs to be paid down. The IRS, Bank and Vendors will have to be paid and Saleen needs funding to make the debt payments
4) Saleen cannot produce 90 cars per month to break-even with 30 employees and only 6 production workers. impossible. Even if they had the parts (which they do not ) they are not capable of tuning that many cars in a cellular building method.
5) Saleen is delinquent on terms with it's suppliers so they are on COD terms. They cannot buy parts without cash.
6) Saleen has to build approximately 19 cars which they have already been paid $1.1M for. Where is the cash to build these cars?
7) Saleen has to pay the Ford Dealership that is suing them for stealing 7 chassis. Eventually, Ford Motor Company will jump in and freeze Saleen out of all their dealerships by not allocating anymore shipments of Mustangs to Saleen.
There are many more reasons Saleen needs financing . Even a fast growing profitable company needs funding if Sales jump up quickly. It is easy to say that without a funding source, Saleen is dead.
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