There really is no reason why a company would want their valuations to be lower. It is however dependent on a few outside factors, market potential, market timing, cost of said IP etc. See this quick article.
An example of value of IP and market timing and potential would be something like coming up with a streaming or media delivery service way prior to the market capability or market potential prior to something like broadband being ubiquitous. Say a service like Netflix being developed 10 years prior to being able to get broadband services. The ip value would be low. But jump years ahead and as technology readily becomes more available and cheaper, that IP would increase dramatically in value. Same goes for VHS tapes and rentals and then the market declines due to said technology ( broadband becomes available) and that IP drops into the toilet
Depends on a lot of factors and that was just an example or two.
I would say the IP that BION has is worth more now due to increased costs of the larger plants ( energy costs, raw materials etc) and the increase in demand and trying to create more fertilizer in the US. Growing more in less land etc.
Soooo. Roni is right the the value of the stock price is due to present situations bUT I think you were asking more about the valuation of IP. It's about market perception/ potential, time in development or just on paper.
I can't think of why a company would want to artificially depress the value unless you want to keep it off the big boys radar.
Hope that sheds some light. I'm sure there are other sides to this too
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