ETHERSTACK PLC
ASX:ESKSoftware & ServicesToday’s holders own 95.0% of what they think they own, once every option and right converts.
2 cash raises in 24 months; share count grew 8% in 24 months; options/rights overhang 5% of shares
ETHERSTACK PLC's ordinary share count grew 7.6% between July 2024 and September 2026, its latest share-count filing, to 142M shares. The company raised capital twice in the 24-month window for total proceeds of A$12.2M, most recently a A$6.1M placement in November 2025. Options on issue could convert into 8M new shares, equal to 5.3% of current shares, none of which are in the money; no expiry date for these securities is on record. The company's latest cash report, a half-year/annual statement, shows non-negative net cash flow, so no funding-runway estimate applies. No proposed securities issues are pending.
Quick answers · 4
When did ESK last raise capital?
The last capital raise in Etherstack's filings is Placement of $6.1M announced 18 Nov 2025, one of 2 cash raises in 24 months.
How much placement capacity does ESK have left?
None of the 15% placement capacity counted as used in the last 12 months (estimate). Under ASX Listing Rule 7.1 a company may place up to 15% of its shares in 12 months without shareholder approval.
How many options and rights does ESK have outstanding?
Unexercised options and rights equal 5.3% of Etherstack's shares on issue.
How much has ESK's share count grown?
Etherstack has 141.8M shares on issue as at 28 Oct 2026, up 7.6% over 24 months according to its Appendix 2A filings.
Shares on issue — last 2 years
Cash runway
Issuance timeline
Latest 5 filings (Appendix 2AThe form a company lodges to have new securities quoted on the ASX. It restates how many of each class are on issue. quoted issues, 3G unquoted, 3H cancellations)
| Date | Form | Security | On issue, per this filing | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 Sept 2026 | 3H · cancellation | CHESS DEPOSITARY INTERESTS 1:1 | 141.8M | Appendix 3H |
| 9 Sept 2026 | 3G · unquoted | CHESS DEPOSITARY INTERESTS | 141.8M | Appendix 3G |
| 4 Sept 2026 | 3G · unquoted | CHESS DEPOSITARY INTERESTS 1:1 | 141.7M | Appendix 3G |
| 4 Sept 2026 | 2A · quoted issue | CHESS DEPOSITARY INTERESTS 1:1 | 141.8M | Appendix 2A |
| 28 Aug 2026 | 2A · quoted issue | CHESS DEPOSITARY INTERESTS 1:1 | 141.7M | Appendix 2A |
Securities on issue over time
Ordinary shares and every option and rights class, month by month over two years. The top edge is the fully diluted count.
Capital raises
2 cash raises in the last 24 months · 2 in the last 12 months
Forward supply
Every dated event on record that could add securities to the register — option expiries to their stated dates and proposed issues over the next 18 months, on one timeline.
Placement capacity
How much stock a company can place without asking holders. Listing Rule 7.1 / 7.1ARule 7.1 lets a company issue up to 15% of its shares in 12 months without a shareholder vote. Rule 7.1A adds 10% for smaller companies whose holders approve it. allows 15% of ordinary securities in any 12 months, and every Appendix 3BNotice that a company proposes to issue new securities, such as a placement. The securities are not on issue until a later filing confirms it. states how much of it an issue uses.
Pending proposed issues
Options & convertible securities
- Price-triggered6.7M · 4.7% of sharesOptions and warrants — they convert when the share price clears their exercise price.No exercise price is on record for any of it, so none of it can be called in or out of the money.
- Condition-triggered886k · 0.6% of sharesPerformance and incentive rights — they convert when a hurdle is met, not at a price, and can lapse to nothing.
Exercise price on record: 0 priced, 7.5M where the filing never states one. A security with no exercise price is never counted in the money — nothing is paid to convert it, so there is no price for it to be above.
Each figure is the filing’s own count of securities, not a share count — a 2A never states what one security converts into.
No option supply on record carries an exercise price to pay, so no share price switches any of it on. All 7.5M of it converts on something else — a hurdle that may never be met, or terms the filing does not price.
| Code | Security | Type | Exercise price | Expiry | On issue | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ESKAC | Performance rights | Condition-triggered | — | — | 886k | Filing Meeting |
| ESKAA | Options | Price-triggered, no exercise price stated | — | — | 6.7M | Filing |
“Nil” is a stated nil exercise price: nothing is paid to convert. An em dash means the filing names no exercise price at all. Security is read from the filing’s own class description; an em dash there means the description is not one this table labels. One row is one security class, at the number stated in the most recent quotation application that restated it — linked, and dated, in the last column. For what expires soon across other listed companies, see the options expiry calendar.
A condition-triggered class has no exercise price and usually no expiry: what it vests on is set by a shareholder resolution, not by the register. Where the company lodged a notice of meeting before the class first appears here, it is linked as “Meeting” — that is where terms of this kind are put to shareholders. It is not confirmation that the document sets this class’s conditions, and no link appears where there is no such filing.
Director dealings
| Date | Director | Type | Shares | Options | Other | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 May 2026 | Peter Stephens | Buy on-market | 65k | — | — | $36k | 3Y notice |
| 14 Apr 2026 | David Deacon | Buy on-market | 25k | — | — | $16k | 3Y notice |
| 8 Apr 2026 | David Deacon | Buy on-market | 10k | — | — | $6k | 3Y notice |
Ownership
Latest announcements
Headlines link to the source PDFs on the ASX announcements platform. Data as of 28 Oct 2026.