I've increased my CLCL position at the sub-penny level. Although its a high-risk investment because of the non-filing status (and the possibility the SEC might eventually target these types of companies for suspension/revocation), I consider CLCL around this sub-penny to penny price area to be close to a "no-brainer" kind of situation. The increase in social media activity by the company/Kaplan (which initially started in early 2015 and has now accelerated dramatically in recent weeks) seems to be building/pointing to a substantial increase in the share price at some point.
If Kaplan follows through on a decent redesign of the company's websites, that should significantly help investors' perceptions of the company. A fully-updated and more "aesthetically pleasing" corporate website would be a very welcome development, since the quality of the CLCL website has long been a major turn off for prospective investors.
Kaplan's statement that the outstanding share count is still under 100M is extremely interesting. That would mean that there has been basically no increase in the outstanding share count for about decade or more (from around the time it did some private placements to complete/expand the soft drink business/facilities in China).
If I recall correctly the last public information on CLCL's financings showed the company had sold about $4.5M in preferred shares (about 10-12 years or so ago) which had an interest rate of 8% and were convertible at 20 cents. The interest was payable in cash or shares, but I don't recall if any terms of the share payment for interest was disclosed. The company also had a class of preferred shares that were outstanding and convertible into 10M shares.
So, depending on whether there were any changes to the conversion price over the years, and whether the company has been accruing the interest payments or paying off the interest in cash, I would assume the fully-diluted share count is probably north of 130M. Regardless of what the fully-diluted count might be, CLCL could turn into a pretty nice momentum type stock at some point. Sometimes it seems like it is easy to pick up a nice chunk of shares, but other times it seems like relatively minor buying pressure can move the price higher very quickly.
Kaplan's acknowledgement (in early 2015 and again in his 2016 postings) that CLCL has restarted its development stage pharma business makes for a potentially huge wildcard. Particularly if the company is doing any additional research/development in the area of the anti-tumor drug it was working on.....
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