....Gammon Gold (GAM.to) (GRS), as it hands over another BOHICA* moment to its shareholders. The award is for this press release that starts thusly:
HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA--(Marketwire - Oct. 7, 2009) - Gammon Gold Inc. (the "Company") (TSX:GAM - News; NYSE:GRS - News) announces that it has entered into an agreement with a syndicate of underwriters led by BMO Capital Markets and UBS Securities Canada Inc. under which the underwriters have agreed to purchase on a bought deal basis 11,240,000 common shares (the "Common Shares") at a price of US$8.90 per Common Share for gross proceeds of US$100,036,000 (the "Offering").
I've looked at GRS several times over the years and have always passed. I've never regretted that decision, either. How long-term shareholders must suffer to be in this thing, the archetypical zero-sum game.
Rule one of a business: Make money. Gammon Gold fails that test, DYODD.
*Bend Over Here It Comes Again