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An Israeli PE firm which already owns 46% wants to up its stake to 80% via a below mkt tender offer @$2.95 (vs. $3 mkt price).
Will the stk go dark upon completion and remaining shareholders at mercy of the PE?
Thoughts?
https://www.prnewswire.com/il/news-releases/fimi-commences-cash-special-tender-offer-for-magal-security-systems-ltd-301064224.html
You replied to my post, but I didn't see anything helpful to resolve this crazy situation with StockCharts. I even posted a tweet and still no response. I am thinking of signing up for TradingView.com. Any opinion about TradingView or suggestion for an alternative to StockCharts and tips on migrating all my chart data?
Thanks.
No response from StockCharts Support
I am a long time paying subscriber to StockCharts.com
I was planning to extend my subscription as there is a holiday promo offering 2 extra months for a 12-mo extension/renewal.
I can only pay using the same credit card I had used previous which I don't have anymore and there is no way to update my credit card info (even though their FAQs say you can):
https://stockcharts.com/docs/doku.php?id=faqs:how_do_i_update_my_credit_card_number_or_expiration_date
I even called their tel# (425-881-2606) and left message.
If anyone from StockCharts is monitoring this message board, please look into in.
And what is the experience of other users as regards their support. NONE of my queries (about a dozen) over the past year for help with the charts were answered. I was hoping an inquiry to help me pay them would be important enough for them to respond to !
Gamida:GMDA IPO'ed today at $8.
Post-IPO Elbit will own about 11%.
This monetization event should be positive, yet Elbit drops 11% !
What gives?
Okay.
Seems we got William O'Neil's double bottom with the new low (14.65) on 5-feb lower than the old low (14.67) on 12-dec.
CGEN dropped from the Nasdaq Biotech Index on 11-Dec @2.50 and has kept going up since with a big price and volume spike on 15-Dec.
Doesn't make sense !!
Okay, so it did!
Today's hi @$0.09.
And on some impressive volume of over 400K shares!
realfast95 -
Can you please elaborate?
Any opinion how Amazon's entry into mobile payments might affect pure plays like Monitise?
Thanks.
@midas: Thanks for your tireless posts and keeping the thread alive. All the financial engineering details makes my head spin. What do you see as the prospects going forward? I got in years ago as a real estate play. Small position.
Bezos is channeling Svengali, not Steve Jobs!
The recent frenzied media coverage about Amazon’s Price-Check App price-snooping $5 bribe got me thinking how masterful a job Bezos has done in conning the media into giving it free advertising as the go-to destination for bargain holiday shopping. I can’t imagine many shoppers will actually take the trouble for a mere 5 bucks, but the buzz and the extra sales will surely eclipse any costs.
And recently, the media were also conned into helping fan the meme about the low price for the Kindle Fire. Not just a garden variety low, but a "Crazy Eddie" kind of "so low he is practically giving it away" insanely low irresistible bargain. First hand I can tell you, for this reason alone it has ended up on the Christmas shopping list of several gizmo-skeptic but bargain-loving members of my immediate family.
My notion that "the below cost" pricing for the Kindle Fire is just a marketing myth is supported by this announcement by a Chinese outfit, Ainol, of a $99 7-inch Andriod 4.0 icecream tablet with capacitive-touch, front/back camera, 1080p video etc… i.e. several added features and costs over the Fire. If such a pricing can be accomplished by a company that is to be sold via retail channels with its own margins and without any razor/blade biz model implies that the cost of making these gizmos may not be all that high.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/245495/tablet_priced_under_100_with_android_40_surfaces.html
This has also helped Amazon sandbag its 4Q earnings expectation and its actual performance will no doubt be heralded as proof how this juggernaut’s lean/mean biz model has squeezed the profits even while selling a Kindle Fire “loss leader” and how this is proof positive of its razor/blade biz model and help whip up its share price beyond its already lofty level.
Bezos as the next Steve Jobs and Amazon as the next Apple is another meme that the media is conned into fanning. " ..Jeff Bezos is channeling Steve Jobs. .. Almost giddy with excitement, Bezos retrieves one by one the new crop of dirt-cheap Kindle e-readers ..When he’s done showing them off, he stands up, and, for an audience of a single journalist, announces, “Now, I’ve got one more thing to show you.” He waits a half-beat to make sure the reference to Jobs’ famous line from Apple presentations hasn’t been missed, then gives his notorious barking laugh."
http://www.oregonbusiness.com/the-latest/5957-amazons-bezos-unveils-kindle-fire
http://seekingalpha.com/article/312363-amazon-on-its-way-to-becoming-apple-s-no-1-contender
From his virtuoso manipulation of the media so far, he is for sure channeling Svengali.
There is a Barbarian @ the Gate !
Apple must Fire back with a 7" iPod touch.
Apple should first get the media to alter its perception of the Kindle Fire as just a larger but stunted iPod touch.
And it is time to get past Steve Jobs’ disapproval and speedily put out a 7" iPod touch. Slapping a larger screen and a larger battery should be a trivial task for the product wizards in Cupertino.
With all the buzz in the media about Kindle Fire and the meme that I think Amazon itself is fanning about how it is being sold "below cost" has created the popular impression of the Fire being an irresistible Bargain! First hand I can tell you it is on the Christmas shopping list of several gizmo-skeptic but bargain-loving members of my immediate family.
A 7" $299 iPod will totally neutralize a clear and present danger from Amazon & BN. With a camera, retina display and the Apple cachet, most Fire shoppers will switch to Apple in a heartbeat.
I would hate to see a replay of Apple again being put on the ropes by another barbarian from Seattle! Unless Apple acts fast, there is danger of the Android getting entrenched in the Tablet space too.
I too buy from Amazon and also from Buy.com and other online merchants and just about all the time, I get free shipping (and no sales tax too!) from them all. I am a satified customer of Amazon & many of its online competitors.
But I don't understand why it commands such a premium valuation as in my opinion it faces a few landmines (sales tax going forward and the $269 million Texas sales tax bill), formidable competitors in all its fresh growth areas - cloud, tablets, ebooks, vod etc. and not much of a moat for its bread and butter discount retailing (for example, diapers.com which came out of nowhere and Amazon decided to buy than beat).
Amazon's self-puffery and the investment community's inflated opinion of it's prospects will work to levitate the stock until it won't.
Sure, you can call it "Conspiracy Theory" or what I would prefer to call it - "Think Like a Criminal" fit for our rough & tumble casino called the stock market.
However, with all the dubious practices Amazon engages in (for example, abusing Sales Tax loopholes by setting up divisions with "Entity Isolation" legal voodoo), this may not be merely my "conspiracy theory" fertile imagination.
One thing to keep in mind though is, even if my theory is true, Bezos can play this game with impunity over many years (don't forget he still owns 88 millions shares), so it is not quite yet a shortable insight. Remember how long it took for Madoff's scheme to unravel?
What if Insiders were to BUY Kindle books to goose up earnings?
I posted this on yahoo message board jungle. Perhaps this board can pick up my train of thought about this teflon stock..
This is a thought experiment justified by the opacity Amazon practices while putting out its famous “Best Ever” fluff PR releases timed to goose up the stock but at the same time being coy and only giving out teasers as to the actual Kindle figures.
Amazon sells a combination of low margin/ high priced merchandise together with low-priced high margin books especially e-books. Also, the dollar value of Insider sales of stock , mostly by Bezos, in comparision to Earnings, makes the manipulative action I am going to suggest a distinct possiblity.
So far just in 2010 Bezos has sold $793 million of Amazon stock (and other insiders an additional $94 million) for a total by all Insider of $887 million. Now, during the past 3-quarters of 2010, Amazon has reported total earnings (before taxes) of $990 million.
Now, one can be sure Amazon has among its Kindle books many “nobody ever heard of” high margin dud books which Bezos can download by the millions and goose up reported earnings. The amount thus spent is “just cost of doing business” for Bezos as it would facilitate keeping the Amazon shares aloft at these lofty levels he can sell into. This would permit Amazon the flexibility to sell a lot of high-priced merchandise at low or no margin and make the top-line seem super impressive. So, if Bezos were to “re-invest” just 30% of his take ($238 million) from selling Amazon stock for downloading the bum Kindle books for which Amazon might have, say, 95%+ margins, that would drop down as over $225 million of Earnings for Amazon which is 22% of the total earnings for the past 3 quarters.
For those who might hyperventilate when Amazon puts out the imminent “Best Ever” sales & earnings fluff release, the above possible modus-operadi should make you go Hmmm…
MSN's Jubak column on Rare Earth:
http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Investing/JubaksJournal/a-rare-opportunity-in-mining-stocks.aspx
There is another fairly active Rare Earth board I found on iHub's related site, Silicon Investor. Just FYI.
http://siliconinvestor.advfn.com/subject.aspx?subjectid=56958
Saw a Ken Fisher column on Rare Earths posted today and happily surprised to find this board. Joined iHub to post the link and hope this Rare Earth theme being picked up by mainstream investment managers and columnist yield some winning picks.
http://www.marketminder.com/commentary/Default.aspx