Autobytel Inc. (ABTL)

[pmstock]

Lot of red today.

[pmstock]

Low volume is never good. Wonder if this is going to come back down.

[stocktrademan]

$ABTL recent news/filings

bullish nasdaq pick

## source: finance.yahoo.com

Wed, 06 Aug 2014 17:42:43 GMT ~ AUTOBYTEL INC Files SEC form 8-K, Results of Operations and Financial Condition, Financial Statements and Exhibits


read full: http://biz.yahoo.com/e/140806/abtl8-k.html
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Tue, 05 Aug 2014 14:22:30 GMT ~ Autobytel to Present and Conduct One-on-One Investor Meetings at Canaccord Genuity 34th Annual Growth Conference

[at noodls] - IRVINE, Calif., Aug. 5, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Autobytel Inc. (Nasdaq:ABTL), pioneer of the automotive Internet and the company dedicated to connecting automotive consumers with dealers, today announced ...

read full: http://www.noodls.com/view/5ADBC0B1DA8D0870E48058AB27136CA97F4936AF
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Tue, 05 Aug 2014 13:15:00 GMT ~ Autobytel to Present and Conduct One-on-One Investor Meetings at Canaccord Genuity 34th Annual Growth Conference

[GlobeNewswire] - IRVINE, Calif. -- Autobytel Inc. , pioneer of the automotive Internet and the company dedicated to connecting automotive consumers with dealers, today announced that Jeffrey Coats, President and Chief ...

read full: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/autobytel-present-conduct-one-one-131500932.html
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Fri, 01 Aug 2014 22:43:36 GMT ~ Photo Release -- Forget Sharknado 2... Autobytel Creates Carnado Too Instead

[at noodls] - IRVINE, Calif., Aug. 1, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- If the original Sharknado wasn't enough (and it obviously wasn't) Sharknado 2 returned to haunt our dreams Wednesday night - this time taking a bite out ...

read full: http://www.noodls.com/view/C8141BEDD9A74F6B50FDC9A3AEE9F79A33F8027D
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Fri, 01 Aug 2014 21:13:30 GMT ~ Photo Release -- Forget Sharknado 2... Autobytel Creates Carnado Too Instead

[GlobeNewswire] - IRVINE, Calif. -- If the original Sharknado wasn't enough (and it obviously wasn't) Sharknado 2 returned to haunt our dreams Wednesday night -- this time taking a bite out of the Big Apple. The sequel ...

read full: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/photo-release-forget-sharknado-2-211330615.html
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$ABTL company information

## source: otcmarkets.com

Link: http://www.otcmarkets.com/stock/ABTL/company-info
Ticker: $ABTL
OTC Market Place: Not Available
CIK code: 0001023364
Company name: Autobytel, Inc.
Company website: http://www.autobytel.com
Incorporated In: DE, USA


$ABTL share structure

## source: otcmarkets.com

Market Value: $73,195,515 a/o Aug 06, 2014
Shares Outstanding: 8,992,078 a/o Apr 28, 2014
Float: Not Available
Authorized Shares: Not Available
Par Value: 0.001
$ABTL extra dd links

Company name: Autobytel, Inc.
Company website: http://www.autobytel.com

## STOCK DETAILS ##
After Hours Quote (nasdaq.com): http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/ABTL/after-hours
Option Chain (nasdaq.com): http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/ABTL/option-chain
Historical Prices (yahoo.com): http://finance.yahoo.com/q/hp?s=ABTL+Historical+Prices
Company Profile (yahoo.com): http://finance.yahoo.com/q/pr?s=ABTL+Profile
Industry (yahoo.com): http://finance.yahoo.com/q/in?s=ABTL+Industry

## COMPANY NEWS ##
Market Stream (nasdaq.com): http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/ABTL/stream
Latest news (otcmarkets.com): http://www.otcmarkets.com/stock/ABTL/news - http://finance.yahoo.com/q/h?s=ABTL+Headlines

## STOCK ANALYSIS ##
Analyst Research (nasdaq.com): http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/ABTL/analyst-research
Guru Analysis (nasdaq.com): http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/ABTL/guru-analysis
Stock Report (nasdaq.com): http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/ABTL/stock-report
Competitors (nasdaq.com): http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/ABTL/competitors
Stock Consultant (nasdaq.com): http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/ABTL/stock-consultant
Stock Comparison (nasdaq.com): http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/ABTL/stock-comparison
Investopedia (investopedia.com): http://www.investopedia.com/markets/stocks/ABTL/?wa=0
Research Reports (otcmarkets.com): http://www.otcmarkets.com/stock/ABTL/research
Basic Tech. Analysis (yahoo.com): http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ta?s=ABTL+Basic+Tech.+Analysis
Barchart (barchart.com): http://www.barchart.com/quotes/stocks/ABTL
DTCC (dtcc.com): http://search2.dtcc.com/?q=Autobytel%2C+Inc.&x=10&y=8&sp_p=all&sp_f=ISO-8859-1
Spoke company information (spoke.com): http://www.spoke.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=Autobytel%2C+Inc.
Corporation WIKI (corporationwiki.com): http://www.corporationwiki.com/search/results?term=Autobytel%2C+Inc.&x=0&y=0
WHOIS (domaintools.com): http://whois.domaintools.com/http://www.autobytel.com
Alexa (alexa.com): http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/http://www.autobytel.com#
Corporate website internet archive (archive.org): http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.autobytel.com

## FUNDAMENTALS ##
Call Transcripts (nasdaq.com): http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/ABTL/call-transcripts
Annual Report (companyspotlight.com): http://www.companyspotlight.com/library/companies/keyword/ABTL
Income Statement (nasdaq.com): http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/ABTL/financials?query=income-statement
Revenue/EPS (nasdaq.com): http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/ABTL/revenue-eps
SEC Filings (nasdaq.com): http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/ABTL/sec-filings
Edgar filings (sec.gov): http://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=0001023364&owner=exclude&count=40
Latest filings (otcmarkets.com): http://www.otcmarkets.com/stock/ABTL/filings
Latest financials (otcmarkets.com): http://www.otcmarkets.com/stock/ABTL/financials
Short Interest (nasdaq.com): http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/ABTL/short-interest
Dividend History (nasdaq.com): http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/ABTL/dividend-history
RegSho (regsho.com): http://www.regsho.com/tools/symbol_stats.php?sym=ABTL&search=search
OTC Short Report (otcshortreport.com): http://otcshortreport.com/index.php?index=ABTL
Short Sales (otcmarkets.com): http://www.otcmarkets.com/stock/ABTL/short-sales
Key Statistics (yahoo.com): http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=ABTL+Key+Statistics
Insider Roster (yahoo.com): http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ir?s=ABTL+Insider+Roster
Income Statement (yahoo.com): http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?s=ABTL
Balance Sheet (yahoo.com): http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bs?s=ABTL
Cash Flow (yahoo.com): http://finance.yahoo.com/q/cf?s=ABTL+Cash+Flow&annual

## HOLDINGS ##
Major holdings (cnbc.com): http://data.cnbc.com/quotes/ABTL/tab/8.1
Insider transactions (yahoo.com): http://finance.yahoo.com/q/it?s=ABTL+Insider+Transactions
Insider transactions (secform4.com): http://www.secform4.com/insider-trading/ABTL.htm
Insider transactions (insidercrow.com): http://www.insidercow.com/history/company.jsp?company=ABTL
Ownership Summary (nasdaq.com): http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/ABTL/ownership-summary
Institutional Holdings (nasdaq.com): http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/ABTL/institutional-holdings
Insiders (SEC Form 4) (nasdaq.com): http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/ABTL/insider-trades
Insider Disclosure (otcmarkets.com): http://www.otcmarkets.com/stock/ABTL/insider-transactions

## SOCIAL MEDIA AND OTHER VARIOUS SOURCES ##
PST (pennystocktweets.com): http://www.pennystocktweets.com/stocks/profile/ABTL
Market Watch (marketwatch.com): http://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/ABTL
Bloomberg (bloomberg.com): http://www.bloomberg.com/quote/ABTL:US
Morningstar (morningstar.com): http://quotes.morningstar.com/stock/s?t=ABTL
Bussinessweek (businessweek.com): http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/snapshot/snapshot_article.asp?ticker=ABTL



$ABTL DD Notes ~ http://www.ddnotesmaker.com/ABTL

[Greatbigteeth]

ABTL great earnings and revenue news!

[Greatbigteeth]

It seems like ABTL is a very good buy. PE under 4. Profitable. Ready to get over 20 soon. Low float so it moves a lot. Thoughts?

[MiamiGent]

..and Friday was options expiration (OPEX).

[MiamiGent]

My read..
Overall market was down today as well as the stock receiving a downgrade from Buy to Hold. Who knows what the motivation for that was.
MM's may well be taking down before next leg up.
Lot of traders in this now and they are nimble to bail, esp on a Fri.
Low float that moves sharply- today down.
Good buy opp, imo.
MG

[MiamiGent]

ABTL March 10, 2014
13:03 EDT ABTL Autobytel valuation favorable compared to M&A deals, says B. Riley
B. Riley says Autobytel's valuation compares favorably to the reported Cars.com sale valuation and the recent price paid for Dealer.com. The firm sees value in Autobytel and reiterates a Buy rating on the stock with a $21.50 price target. Shares of the automotive marketing company are up 6% today to $14.53 after the Wall Street Journal reported that peer Cars.com is up for sale for a price around 4-5 times revenue.
http://www.stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=ABTL&p=D&b=5&g=0&id=p58876128857

[MiamiGent]

ABTL Stellar Performer Autobytel Finally Offers A Great Entry!
By MiamiGent
Mar. 10, 2014 4:28 AM ET

http://www.stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=ABTL&p=D&b=5&g=0&id=p58876128857

Summary

•ABTL share price takes healthy breather after riding RSI 80 for six months.
•Shelf Registration misunderstood- for acquisitions, not operating expenses. Float of approximately 4.5 million evidences company's interest in share structure.
•The Earnings miss that wasn't- rising share price triggered convertible notes increasing the OS, diluting EPS roughly equal to the .02 "miss".

Autobytel Inc. (NASDAQ: ABTL) provides high quality consumer leads and associated marketing services to automotive dealers and manufacturers throughout the United States and offers consumers robust and original online automotive content to help them make informed car-buying decisions. The company pioneered the automotive internet in 1995 with its flagship website autobytel.com and has since helped tens of millions of automotive consumers research vehicles; connected thousands of dealers nationwide with motivated car buyers; and helped every major automaker market its brand online (from the company).

ABTL stock has been on a tear the past 52 weeks, rising 222%. Analyst's estimate the Yearly EPS will grow 72% in 2014.

The rise has been fueled by ten straight profitable quarters and successive acquisitions as ABTL solidifies its status as the leader in a consolidating industry.

80% of consumers now shop online for their new or used car. Online is today's showroom!

Autobytel's latest acquisition is AutoUSA, Auto Nation's lead originator subsidiary. This acquisition alone will add 20+% to Autobytel's revenues in 2014 and most importantly signals a long term relationship with Auto Nation. AutoNation is largest U.S. retailer of new cars, trucks and SUVs.

Since Autobytel's Quarterly Earnings Report 11 trading days ago, the share price has retreated 26%.This is offering investors and traders a great entry and ought not be missed, in my opinion- here are a baker's dozen reasons why:

1. The Shelf Registration filed on February 27th is for continued acquisitions not for operating expenses- the company throws off cash every quarter. Acquisitions have been accretive to share price value, not dilutive. CEO Jeffrey H. Coats stated in the February 20th conference call the company intends to continue acquiring synergistic companies as ABTL solidifies its leading status in a consolidating industry.

2. The miss of .02 in Q4 was largely due to the rising share price which triggered warrants and convertible notes adding 23% to the OS, diluting Earnings.

3. The 20 EMA was tested twice last week and held. The share price appears to be at support- always the choice entry.

4. Volume has dropped below the 10 day average volume indicating selling is largely over.

5. When the RSI has been riding 80 for six months, the share price looks for a reason to reset. The misconstrued Earnings report and Registration intent provided that.

6. RSI is now 37.82 on the 6 month daily chart- oversold, offering plenty of room for appreciation.

7. The technology index, which ABTL is part of has been strong of late with the exception of the most recent period. A breather is not a bad thing following a parabolic move up.

8. Short interest is a mere 1.13%- few wish to stand in front of the ABTL juggernaut.

9. ABTL has over 50% institutional, mutual fund and inside ownership- a real sign of confidence in a microcap stock.

10. A large ABTL stakeholder is John Bogle Jr., son of stock market legend Jack Bogle. John is no silver spoon son. His hedge fund has returned 12.4% over its 14 year existence, far outperforming the 8.6% gain of its benchmark index, the Russell 2000 over the same period.

11. I/B/E/S ABTL EPS forecast for 2014 is .62 versus .36 for 2013- a 72% increase in net earnings!

12. As of 12/31/13, ABTL had federal and state NOLs (carry forward losses) of $100.9 million and 66.1 million, respectively- a huge boost to future net earnings.

13. The auto industry is anticipating another great year in 2014. Analyst's estimates reach as high as 16.5 million vehicles. 2013 was 15.6 million. ABTL not only rides the industry's coattail, it outperforms the industry. This said CEO Coats, "our 17% revenue growth for the full year (2013) readily eclipsed the approximate 9% growth in retail auto sales in the last year and we expect our growth to outpace the market for U.S. auto retail sales for the foreseeable future".

There is little bad to say about this company except perhaps some grousing over the CEO's near million dollar compensation- rather steep for a microcap company. I don't begrudge the CEO as he works like a Trojan and has performed admirably.

I like ABTL as an investment as well as a trade. It is one of the better opportunities I have seen in a while.

A cautionary note: The markets are hitting all time highs. There has been a rotation into defensive stocks. Consider buying 1/2 the shares you may wish to of any stock as a defensive measure.

Use of any of the various stop loss mechanisms is recommended. With limited volume and a small float, ABTL share price moves sharply.

Disclosure: I am long ABTL. I wrote this article myself, and it expresses my own opinions. I am not receiving compensation for it. I have no business relationship with any company whose stock is mentioned in this article.

Additional disclosure: I am not a professional stock analyst. I am a 36 year physical commodities trader (softs) who enjoys trading stocks. I buy and sell stocks approximately 2,500 times a year. I could be exiting a position minutes after initiating it.
Stock trading is dangerous.

[JakJak]

18.51 then next leg up

[JakJak]

closed 17.62... surprised this board is so quiet

[JakJak]

CLOSED 16.42

[JakJak]

hit 16.12 after a pull back to 14 up 18% today. $20 soon

[JakJak]

15.88

[JakJak]

never wrong to take some profits. My stop loss almost got hit 14. if it breaks it ill sell. if it breaks north of 15 im going to grab some more. I almost sold my fb shares when it dipped to 45, glad i held im in at 22 and 25

[sters]

Thanks congrats to you too. I may pull some profits soon. GL

[JakJak]

14.66 close. hi sters, congrats on your buy. When i bought in Aug I though it could see 15 but after the quarterly report I bought more thinking 20 to 25. Siked! tommorow we should see 15

[sters]

Hey JakJak. Bought in at 9.40 and enjoying this little run. Where do you think its gonna top out at?

[JakJak]

11.05

[JakJak]

10.25 anyone riding this

[JakJak]

hit a new high today 9.05

[JakJak]

up 16 percent today

[JakJak]

looks like its ready to make another run up $10

[stockdoc68]

Confusedtrader, drop by once in a while and see what's happening. Good luck with your new stock.

Stockdoc.

[confusedtrader]

Looking to trade KLIC now using long term Jan options. Stock is cheap and you may like it stockdoc

[confusedtrader]

Sold my ABTL today. Bye to all for now.

Will take some small positions in ABTL on weakness in the future.

It was nice chatting with you stockdoc.

[stockdoc68]

Lots of SEC action going on, and I have no idea what it means. I don't see anything obviously wrong, so that's worth something.
One thing we know now that we weren't sure of before, is that ABTL is going to do some advertising. That's where some of that $15 million is heading.

stockdoc

[confusedtrader]

Check his followers number below his picture

[confusedtrader]

Roth increased target price to 6.5 from 5 today.

[stockdoc68]

It looks to me like the prospect of hitting 43 cents per share next year is helping this stock out...at least, on the short-term. Currently up 24 cents.

[stockdoc68]

I'm not sure how you figured that this writer has a big following, but Seeking Alpha's own information shows that he only has a total of 98 readers interested in ABTL. That's next to nothing when it comes to buying and selling stock.

Stockdoc68

[confusedtrader]

The author has a lot of followers. Stock had good volume today.

[stockdoc68]

Seeking Alpha gives a decent review of ABTL. Unfortunately, they did it on Sunday when very few people bother reading these articles.

[stockdoc68]

It looks like the sellers are pure amateurs. They're selling at market and getting hit for 15 to 25 cents less than they're asking. Always put limits on your buys and sells.

Incidentally, funds are doing some selling for whatever their reasons.

[stockdoc68]

I don't see that the earnings were anything but terrible. At four cents per share, that comes out .8 cents per share presplit. Horrible. It was supposed to come out about five cents per share presplit. At this rate, they'll only come out about 4 cents per share presplit for the year. That's ridiculous.

I did see, however, that Jeff gave bonuses as soon as they got shareholder approval to hand out many thousands of dollars to employees. Nice move, something the shareholders will never get.

Cash on hand...well, Jeff sure handled that well. He doesn't know what to do with the cash, but one thing for sure...shareholders aren't getting any of it back as a dividend. Jeff's probably going to pay some hyper-inflated price to one of his friends for some garbage with the cash.

Now, something critical that's worthy of SEC action. It seems that when I voted my shares the way I did, somehow the votes were changed....in favor of ABTL requests of course. I don't know who or how my voting was changed, but that's a serious issue worthy of some follow-up. I'm doing that now, and if it turns out that there's something illegal going on, ABTL's going to be in very big trouble.

The only thing Jeff did on the positive side was to give some guidance for the coming year. Right now, I don't see that doing that is going to over-ride the crap that's coming out of this company.
That's it for today.
stockdoc68

[confusedtrader]

Decent earnings and guidance.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/autobytel-reports-2013-second-quarter-200500939.html

[confusedtrader]

Correct. Earnings today ina few mins now.

GLTA

[stockdoc68]

Atrop didn't take a position in ABTL. What ATROP got was payment for Autropolis (and whatever) when ABTL bought them out. They would have received 2 million shares of ABTL (presplit), but that was adjusted to 400,000 shares post split (plus some options to purchase additional shares.
The big question is "what will they do with those shares when they're eligible to sell those shares on the open market in September.

[confusedtrader]

Atrop takes position in ABTL.

http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1023364/000119312513307687/d574960dsc13d.htm

[confusedtrader]

ZHNE 3$ now

[confusedtrader]

Sold most of my ABTL shares. Have only a few now.

[confusedtrader]

Earnings on Aug 1. Stock at 5.25. Woo hoo.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/autobytel-report-2013-second-quarter-131500806.html

[confusedtrader]

Regained 5 today. Hope it pushes up.

[confusedtrader]

ABTL added to Russell Microcap for 2013. So stock will see action by Friday EOD.

http://www.russell.com/indexes/tools-resources/reconstitution/reconstitution-changes.asp

[stockdoc68]

This a$$hole management won't even give us back a small portion of the money that belongs to us, but they'll hand it out to each other like it's for free. Of course, for them it is free money, just reach in and grab a big hand-full. Shareholders are totally stupid and don't care if you take their money. That's ABTL for you, and that's ABTL shareholders for you.

Stockdoc

[stockdoc68]

I see that ABTL's handing out bonuses like crazy. 5,000 shares a piece to about 5 personnel so far today. What do the shareholders get?...they get the bill for these bonuses. We keep them supplied with stock that they can just give to each other. I think it's just beginning. They want to hand out more bonuses and crank up the pay scale too.
If these asses paid half as much attention to the shareholder as they did to each other, the company would be showing at least twice the bottom line profit as they are now.

[stockdoc68]

Autobytel's general meeting didn't turn out quite the way they wanted. Now they're calling for a definitive vote on prop 3. They did a half-assed job of notifying shareholders and the voting is all screwed up because the notification doesn't allow shareholders to access their voting forms.
Typical Autobytel screw-up.

stockdoc

[confusedtrader]

Just been strong for awhile now in the 4.70s range. Bodes well to break past 5 in the near future.

[stockdoc68]

Considering that the market dropped 353 points, ABTL did very well today.....just breaking even. Let's see if today's general meeting will provide some incentive for management to make some good moves.

Stockdoc :)

[confusedtrader]

Stock is doing well so far despite recent market weakness.