Anavex Life Sciences Corp (AVXL)

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This is the article, right?

http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2016/05/13/5-key-takeaways-from-anavex-life-sciences-second-q.aspx?source=iaasitlnk0000003

His attempt to conflagrate a miniscule 3% increase in share count over last year into "OMG 3% ! Run fer the hills! Your stake is dwindling into nothing! Oh yes. Investors are furious! Furious I tell yah! Woop woop woop!"

This reminds me of articles on financial media outlets market watch which seem to be written ahead of time with blanks to be filled in later with anticipated results e.g. "The price of gold plummeted in overnight markets by __ -0.03% __ (huh?)

I've been in companies that dilute. Mining start-ups tend to dilate a lot. Like 100%. This is negligable. "Dwindle"? Oh Puh-leeeez! This is so minimal it should be considered a positive.

Then the obligatory sneer at the Lincoln Park backup option, by which choice of the term "interesting" is a veiled insinuation that it must be the typical toxic finance component that infests all those tacky little OTC companies that litter the landscape like shells of rotting shrimp carcasses. He pointedly ignores that the deal has a lot of protections built in. It won't trigger the sort of unlimitted share dumping by colluding insiders and loan sharks that occurs with the sort of scam operations that the author attempts to color AVXL as with his broad brush. Scam companies that also rack up huge corporate debt.

His next logical "key take-away" then, should be the topic of debt. One might get the impression from his prose that the $60M available from Lincoln is all but spent. But, in fact, it hasn't been utilized. So where is his topic section examining the huge millions and millions of crushing debt that typically overhangs investors in small developmental bio-tech companies? He seems to have skipped it. Maybe because, guess what? Anavex has no debt. No debt. Isn't that kind of an important key point to completely leave out?

The prefabricated ignorance being propagated in this sorry excuse for an article is indeed infuriating.