Largo Priced US$5.7 Million of Stock and Warrants at US$0.56 to Pay Trade Creditors

Largo Inc. told the market on September 25, 2026 what the money was for. The company announced the pricing of a registered direct offering of US$5.7 million in gross proceeds and said the proceeds were for working capital purposes, including to pay trade creditors.

That sentence is the piece of disclosure that matters, and it is the company's own. US$5.7 million is a small sum for a vanadium producer with an operating mine in Brazil: at twice the size it would still be under a seventh of the bank debt sitting behind it, and at half the size it would not cover a quarter's worth of the copper by-product sales Largo reported two days earlier. Shares in Toronto closed at C$0.77, down 20.62 per cent, on 11.69 times the 30-day average volume, per market data read after the close and delayed fifteen minutes. A move of half that size would have been an ordinary bad day for a C$79 million company; a move of twice it would have taken the shares to roughly C$0.48.

A registered direct offering sells shelf stock straight to named buyers

The mechanics set the terms. A registered direct offering is a sale of already-registered shares to a small number of identified investors, without the marketing of a public offering and without the resale restrictions of a private placement. The shares are freely tradable from the moment they are issued.

Largo said the offering is made under an effective shelf registration statement on Form F-3, File No. 333-290163, declared effective by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission on September 19, 2025, with a prospectus supplement to follow. A shelf registration is standing permission to sell securities over a period without a fresh regulatory review each time. H.C. Wainwright & Co. acted as placement agent, and the company said closing is expected on or about September 29, 2026.

So this is a US-dollar transaction off a US shelf, by a company whose largest listing and whose reporting currency sit in different places from its mine. Largo's shares trade as LGO on the Toronto Stock Exchange and on Nasdaq, and on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange as LR8, under WKN A3C7FD and ISIN CA5170971017, per the Frankfurt exchange's own listing record read on September 25, 2026.

The price was set in US dollars, and Toronto closed below it

Each unit was priced at US$0.56, one common share plus one warrant. A price twice that would have raised the same money on half as many shares; a price half of it would have doubled the dilution for the same cash. Neither is hypothetical in the way it sounds: the unit price is the single lever that decides how much of the company US$5.7 million buys.

Converted at the Bank of Canada's daily average rate of 1.4136 Canadian dollars to the US dollar for September 24, 2026, US$0.56 is about C$0.79. The Toronto close on September 25, 2026 was C$0.77. The shares finished the day roughly 2.8 per cent below the Canadian-dollar equivalent of the price the buyers paid.

That is unusual enough to say precisely. A discounted placement normally prices below the market so the buyer is compensated for taking size. Here the market moved through the offering price during the session. The cash Largo will receive is fixed at US$0.56 a unit regardless, which is the point of pricing a deal rather than marketing one.

The accompanying warrant is exercisable immediately at US$0.70 per share for five years. A strike twice as high would need the shares to roughly double from where they traded on the day; a strike half as high would have been exercisable at a profit the moment it was issued. At US$0.70 the warrant is above the market and will only produce cash for Largo if the shares recover; if all 10,200,000 warrants were exercised they would bring in a further US$7.14 million, more than the offering itself raised.

Ten point two million new shares against a hundred and three million existing ones

The offering is 10,200,000 common shares and 10,200,000 warrants. Largo had about 103.13 million shares outstanding before it, implying a market value of about C$79.4 million at the C$0.77 close.

Maple Markets arithmetic on the share counts in the September 25, 2026 release and the market value at the Toronto close that day.

Just under a tenth of the company was sold for cash, and just under a fifth is committed if the warrants are exercised. Both figures are ordinary for a small producer raising working capital. The warrant overhang is the part that persists: it sits above the market for five years and caps nothing, but every share it eventually creates is a share the existing holders did not buy.

The money is going to trade creditors, and the company says so

Largo did not describe the proceeds as growth capital. It said working capital purposes, including to pay trade creditors. Trade creditors are suppliers and contractors owed for goods and services already delivered.

A company that raises equity to pay suppliers is telling its own market something about the timing of its cash, and it deserves credit for saying it in the release rather than burying it. What it does not tell the market is how much is owed. None of Largo's three September releases, dated September 14, September 23 and September 25, 2026, states a cash balance or a trade-payables figure. SEDAR+ was not readable when this was written, so the debt figures below are the company's own release figures as at those dates and are not checked against the interim statements filed since.

Two insiders bought a quarter of the offering

ARC Fund IV and Jim Bannantine agreed to purchase 2,499,999 common shares and 2,499,999 warrants on the same terms as the other buyers, per the September 25, 2026 release. That is 24.5 per cent of the offering. Half that participation would have left the deal three quarters placed with outside money; twice it would have made insiders the majority subscriber and put the price they set under a different kind of scrutiny.

Mr. Bannantine was named to lead Largo's commercial department in the company's release of September 14, 2026, the same release that reported Francesco D'Alessio departing for a chief executive role elsewhere. Insider participation on identical terms is a real signal about willingness to fund, and it is also a related-party subscription at a price insiders helped set. Both statements are true at once.

The bank debt behind the raise is about fourteen times its size

Largo's Brazilian bank debt is the number that puts US$5.7 million in scale. The company reported approximately US$82 million of commercial bank senior debt, with definitive restructuring agreements executed with Caixa Econômica Federal on September 11, 2026 and with Banco do Brasil by September 23, 2026, together covering approximately 48 per cent of that total. Roughly US$42.6 million of it, then, was still being negotiated as at September 23, 2026. Had the agreements covered twice as much, the restructuring would be effectively done; half as much and the raise would be happening with three quarters of the debt unresolved.

Separately, a US$6.0 million promissory note with ARG International AG was extended to February 2028, per the September 14, 2026 release. In August 2026 the company announced a US$82.2 million debt restructuring extending maturity to 2030.

At about fourteen times the size of the offering, the bank debt is the reason a US$5.7 million raise reads as a working-capital bridge rather than a funding event.

Largo is deliberately selling less vanadium

The strategic news came two days before the pricing, and it complicates the simple reading of a falling share price. On September 23, 2026 Largo said it was shifting production toward high-purity vanadium and copper-platinum-group-metal by-products, which it described as currently generating materially higher margins than standard-grade product.

The trade-off is volume. Vanadium output is being optimised toward approximately 876 tonnes a month, the low end of guidance, against about 1,000 tonnes a month previously, a reduction of 12.4 per cent. Twice that cut would take roughly a quarter out of annual volume; half of it would be within the noise of an ordinary operating month.

Against the lost tonnes, the company reported recent copper-platinum-group-metal sales of approximately US$4.7 million at an operating profit margin above 90 per cent, which it called its highest-margin product, and said it was evaluating a cost-efficient expansion that could approximately double copper-platinum-group-metal concentrate capacity during 2027. Vanadium is used to strengthen steel and in grid-scale flow batteries; platinum-group metals go into catalysts. A 90 per cent operating margin on US$4.7 million is roughly US$4.2 million of operating profit, which is most of what this offering raised, from one quarter's shipments of a by-product the company only began selling in September 2026.

That is a genuine change in the shape of the business, and it is a change in mix rather than in scale. The mine is producing, the high-margin stream is real and small, and the equity was still sold at 9.89 per cent dilution to pay suppliers. All three are the same company on the same day.

The gap between the strategy and the cheque

Two days separate a release about higher margins and a potential doubling of capacity from a release about paying trade creditors with equity. Both are Largo's own disclosure and neither contradicts the other. A producer can be mending its margins and short of working capital at the same time, and in Brazil, with 48 per cent of its bank debt newly restructured and the rest in negotiation, that is close to the expected condition.

The September 29 closing will put US$5.7 million on the balance sheet and 10.2 million shares into the float. The trade payables it settles will not appear as a number until the next set of statements.

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