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I simply stated our customer aerojet rocketdyne got bought by lockheed martin
Which is a fact
You are doing the speculation
I'm simply showing the facts of the industry
I didn't say anything about sigma now getting orders from lockheed
Try reading
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Generally in an acquisition, the company will continue to use practices of the company that was acquired, as they understand the company understood how to run their business and has more technological know-how than they do, hence the reason for the acquisition.
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Not hope, that's a fact.
Sigma Labs customer Aerojet Rocketdyne acquired by Lockheed Martin for 4.4 Billion $$
AEROJET ROCKETDYNE TO BE ACQUIRED BY LOCKHEED MARTIN IN $5.0 BILLION ALL-CASH TRANSACTION
Purchase Price Represents a Premium of Approximately 33%
Companies’ Complementary Capabilities and Talent to Enable Growth in Hypersonics, Tactical Missiles, Integrated Air and Missile Defense, Strategic Systems and Space Exploration
Transaction Provides Greater Value and Innovation for Customers by Integrating Critical Component of Supply Chain
EL SEGUNDO, Calif., Dec. 20, 2020 – Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: AJRD) today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Lockheed Martin Corporation (NYSE: LMT) in an all-cash transaction with a total equity value of $5.0 billion.
Under the terms of the agreement, which has been unanimously approved by each company’s Board of Directors, Lockheed Martin will acquire Aerojet Rocketdyne for $56.00 per share in cash, representing a premium of approximately 33% to Aerojet Rocketdyne’s closing stock price on December 18, 2020 and a premium of approximately 42% to the Company’s volume weighted average stock price (“VWAP”) for the last 90 trading days.
As part of the transaction, Aerojet Rocketdyne declared a $5 per share pre-closing special dividend to holders of its common shares and convertible senior notes, on an as-converted basis. The special dividend will be paid on March 24, 2021, to holders of record as of March 10, 2021. The payment of this special dividend, unless revoked, will adjust the consideration to be paid by Lockheed Martin to $51 per share at closing.
“We are pleased to bring together our complementary companies in a transformative transaction that will provide premium cash value for our shareholders and tremendous benefits for our employees, customers and partners,” said Eileen P. Drake, CEO and President of Aerojet Rocketdyne. “Joining Lockheed Martin is a testament to the world-class organization and team we’ve built and represents a natural next phase of our evolution. As part of Lockheed Martin, we will bring our advanced technologies together with their substantial expertise and resources to accelerate our shared purpose: enabling the defense of our nation and space exploration. On behalf of the Aerojet Rocketdyne Board and management team, I’d like to thank all of our employees for their unwavering dedication and focus in helping us achieve this great milestone.”
This just goes to show how even large corporations are being forced to acquire high tech companies in order to keep up with competition.
Innovative technologies are vital in this booming space race, including the AM industry which makes vital parts for these companies.
Great news for the entire industry and continued growth of aerospace, the largest industry in which Sigma labspara
In which sigma labs participates in.
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The sensors are a relativity small cost of the AM technology as a whole, and generally a necessity for the OEM to install
A relatively small issue is the Technology Readiness Level of sensors as machines become more sophisticated and smaller, being able to fit more sensors into smaller places.
However, we've seen companies like SLM forget going smaller, and build huge 12 laser printers.
The current capabilities of sensors is more than adequate to serve the needs at this time, and can certainly be improved as the technology develops. There is already companies pursuing smaller sensors, with better edge computing technologies and data transfer capabilities.
Don't forget our co-founder works at Harting developing these types of hardware technologies necessary to complete these tasks ;)
I'd reference the latest ASTM, ASME, Additive Industries, etc webinar on standards to listen to the current understanding on the continued acceptance of sensor based data in the AM process.
The standards already account for certain model-based data, which isn't even of any actual data from the machine.
In process data is real build data, that sigma Labs has found directly correlates to post process and modeling data.
This could easily be seen, and has been accepted by those using the technology, as a functional tool to assess quality in real time.
This general acceptance and continued work to prove ipqa data is able to qualify the process, and eventually a part's quality.
The fact that PR3D can already prove the machine parameters are being followed, as well as melt pool and laser temperature, is extremely valuable and relate to the standard qualifications in itself.
Being able to also prove part quality puts PR3D into the next level of AM.
The value currently, is verification of the process and the printer. This is necessary according to the standards, and PR3D does it flawlessly, perhaps better than any other software currently available.
As far as funding goes, we've seen our valuation pop up significantly on very little news, as the understanding of the value of the software continues to be accepted and valued properly.
Ruport claims there's multiple million dollar targets to be hit by EOY 2021.
Even if a significant portion of that is captured in contracts with the large companies we've been working with, we could see an appropriation on that revenue in the standard multiple that other technology companies see.
An appreciation in our valuation based on the revenue and cash on hand, could easily improve our current valuation.
That increase would allow for the raising of cash, possibly from sale of stock, or with our improved financial status, a reasonable loan.
As our usual raising, possibly done on news of a contract, or perhaps the acquisition of a significant loan, there's a possibility we end up at some point during the year with multiple millions cash on the books.
Take the average 10x multiple for a technology company, and we could easily see our valuation increase from the current ~15 million to something more around 50 million.
From there, with our sales model and recurring revenue with highly reputable companies solidified, it's mostly just continuing to expand our foothold in the AM industry and funding operations.
This is where Sigmas highly intelligent moves to build this foundation FIRST, really begins to real the benefits.
Our relationship with Materialise and DMG Mori, two very large, global companies, will give Sigma the ability to expand sales exponentially quickly and at very low cost.
Not to mention our connections overseas in Germany, Japan, South Korea, and China.
Additive Industries continues to grow and we'll positioned to hold 5% of the market along-side the OEMs.
With the AM printer market now surpassing multiple Billion in size (let's go with 2 Billion, although it's surpassed that by now), a 5% capture rate would be a 5million dollar target for Sigma Labs take from just Additive Industries sales, recurring over the next few years.
*Hardware sales in AM projected to hit 10 Billion by 2025, so do the math ;)*
As the printer market is projected to grow, as does Sigma's capture per company.
Sigma's work with NIST, ASTM, ASME, could easily progress to similar understanding and work into the ISO standards, giving Sigma global availability and acceptability.
Long term valuation on recurring global revenue for the AM market would put our valuation exponentially higher than where it is now, but I don't want to venture too far into the future.
All IMO, based on current projections and facts completed by leaders in the industry who have completed the necessary due diligence to come to such conclusions.
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Key words and phrases here..
*My guess*
*Speculation*
*Hope*
This is how people lose money investing.
Basing their share orders and sales based on random guesses.
Follow the data and actual pps movement.
Not guessing based on random correlations.
Flipping a coin and guessing heads in only impressive 50% of the time.
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Mostly a desperate clutching to the idea that Sigma is somehow failing while industry professionals continuously acknowledge that in process monitoring data is perhaps the most integral part to mass production for additive Manufacturing being qualified and certified as every other production process must be, according to the standards written by the governing bodies within their respective fields.
this has been part of the due diligence I've been doing for the past five years, and have been echoing the same exact sentiment as these professionals are today. This was the same sentiment that has been going on for the better part of the decade, however there was time for the industry to catch up to this moment.
The opposite argument, must maintain their sentiment, arguing that the software is failing, the company is failing, and there is no future.
It has been utterly clear that this sentiment is incorrect, that there is most certainly a large market for this type of software, and that Sigma Labs is the leader currently of this technology.
I am a strong believer in science. I look at the available data, I listen to professionals, and I research the entire field of which I am investigating.
that is why I so adamantly fight against people who are clearly not in the interest of science, clearly not in the interest of data, willing to spread misinformation regardless of the reality of the facts.
I refuse to allow for the dumbing down of this investor base simply because one does not understand the reality of the facts and the science involved.
Sigma Labs was founded out of a highly scientific background with some of the most intelligent scientists and engineers in the field of additive manufacturing. They have based their entire format behind others who are the most influential discoverers of additive Manufacturing, thermal plume, and the algorithms regarding the detection of what is occurring in the melt pool of an additive manufacturing process.
The recent milestones over the past few years with the addition of vital personnel regarding the business strategy and the technological know-how have allowed for the exponential growth of the software and laid down the foundation for the future of Sigma labs.
to do all of this in a relatively short time frame and spending relatively very little money to do so is astronomically impressive.
The recent deals with very large oems such as DMG mori, fraunhofer, additive Industries, and others, are contracts that we can't even begin to acknowledge the dollar amounts that these will eventually pay off in the next decade.
As additive manufacturing grows these companies that are doing printer sales in the tens and hundreds, will be doing printer sales in the thousands and tens of thousands.
That is not an opinion, that is the trajectory of the current market, and the projection provided by people who study the industry.
It is a projection based on talking to the people who plan the budgets for these companies and who are directly involved in the expansion of these companies.
this was also part of my due diligence, understanding the industry, understanding the market, understanding additive manufacturing as a whole, spending the last five years going to trade shows multiple times per year, talking to engineers, ceos, data analysts, software designers, representatives from the governing bodies regarding standards, and many many hours of seminars, webinars, question and answer sessions, speaking with people in the industry and at the highest levels of the industry.
I fear that the other side of this argument is simply gathering their information from poorly written websites, and correlating random facts with things that do not have anything to do with the current state of the market, or sigma labs, or really anything to do with the current state of additive manufacturing at this time.
This has been proven when these same people are arguing that software business strategies by directly embedding software into a machine or a pc, isn't an effective way to sell software, when by all accounts in most certainly is.
when a person is incapable of understanding something as simple as that, it goes to show you a lot about their entire argument, it goes to show you a lot about their ability to understand that they might be wrong.
a person like that might be incapable of learning new things at all or incapable of understanding something that they have no knowledge of. It could be a deep psychological flaw, I'm not sure.
Could possibly be a learning disability or something more debilitating.
However I hope that anyone interested in information and finding real data goes out and finds it,it is readily available almost anywhere in this day and age, and take the time to do proper due diligence on whatever it is you are interested in investigating.
The only reason I am ever so rude to certain people is only because they are unable to look at the current data and understand the current science. I will not allow for people to disregard science. I will not allow for people to disregard data and blatantly spread misinformation and hurt the entire body listening to the garbage they are spewing from their mouths.
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Copy and paste their news feed from the past 4 years.
Continued valuable contracts and relationships with the largest AM players in the game
Included in standards talks with the organizations who write them.
A CONTRACT with NIST
good business.
They have continued to improve their business deals and strategy year over year.
To say they haven't is misleading.
While doing this they also exponentially improved their product and the time to market per customer.
Tremendous improvement.
None of this is done overnight or shows an instant increase on the books for any company.
Many other companies take much more money to do what Sigma has on a relatively tight budget.
Tremendous development of their business strategy.
Tremendous development of their product.
Tremendous development of their business relationships.
Tremendous opportunity for investors to make profit and increase shares held.
It's been a great year.
Not sure why anyone is still bellyaching... probably those who made personal investing mistakes and need someone to blame other than themselves
That's been clear.
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It could easily be a great long term investment if you sell when it's overvalued and buy when it's undervalued...
That's a simple strategy used by any successful investor.
You can maintain a position and add shares as moves are made.
This idea on this board that anyone should be able to buy and hold and become a millionaire is not how most companies are, and certainly not technology based start ups.
It's not misleading to say I've continued to ADD shares to my portfolio while also taking PROFIT when the stock price is overvalued.
If I can do it, anyone can.
Be real.
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Really bc it went from low 2s to 5 not long ago and then recently from under 2 to 3.50.
It's not 5-20% gains
It's 30-100% gains.
It's continued acceptance into the market
It's continued contracts with the largest AM companies in the market.
Its continued work with the governing bodies writing the standards for ipqa and including the capabilities of sglb tech.
It's good stuff :)
It's an individual choice to get left behind or not
Choose wisely
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Completely unrelated to sigma Labs tech and clearly no understanding of the software and it's capability to certify printers for production.
No understanding of PR3D to certify the process as discussed by ASTM ASME in recently posted webinar with leaders of the industry.
They understand it and reference sigma labs as the leader in the industry
Get on board or get out.
Claimed holder of zero shares still spending every day claiming knowledge of the industry when none is had.
Great at handling big packages across an interface though, I'll give you that.
Can't complain ??
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No, the companies are completely unrelated and any pps fluctuation similarities are merely a coincidence.
You can pull the charts of 100 companies with similar movement in completely unrelated fields and there is absolutely no correlation between them.
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Yeah...you do understand how growth works don't you?
No one starts with 100% entire market share.
The AM market is in its infancy and Sigma Labs has inked deals with some of the highest growth and largest AM companies in the market
Additive Industries will hold 5% of OEM market
DMG Mori will hold at least 5% if not more...they're a huge global company.
Materialise certainly holds more than 5% of the AM software market.
Already a foothold in Germany with Fraunhofer, with certainly has 5% of the German market.
Sigma Labs has effectively inked deals to sell software with companies already capturing major market share across the globe.
Everyone starts small.
Some get blessed with deals two at a time right into their interface.
I know that is understandable.
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They also weren't selling their software for 50-100k per unit.
They weren't dealing with quality critical parts.
There's a lot of differences.
The model is what works.
Pre-installed software.
End user sales.
Limited expenses on sales and marketing.
High profit margins.
It's not rocket science.
It's making sure the user enjoys the experience.
Same with an open interface to catch balls every post.
Thanks for being great
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And now they capture 5% of the market and do 2 Billion in sales per year.
Exactly.
I always have a ball conversing with you.
Thanks for always making it so pleasurable.
:)
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I didn't say PR3D or nothing...the industry agrees PR3D just happens to be the most advanced, and the only available option for certain OEMs.
They can get whatever they want...just not preferred by their OEM
Thanks for balling.
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Does mcaffe do 2 Billion /year in sales with 5% of the market listed as the "industry standard"?
No, they do it by inking deals with OEMs to install their software into PCs.
The end user makes the decision whether to purchase the product or not.
Sigma Labs is the only 3rd party IPQA technology being offered in AM machines right now that has the advanced features it has.
Features capable of certifying printers and the printing process.
ASTM and ISO looking into correlating simulation and IPQA data to ensure quality.
It's the next step.
You can make the decision for yourself...it's the OEMs who seem confident installing
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Kinda like how McCaffee does $2Billion in sales per year, offering it as an option inside PCs.
Sigma Inside Additive Manufacturing machines in a production setting with much more valuable data, printing safety critical parts.
I mean, do you not even understand a business model that categorically provides some of the highest profit margins and quickest time to market in history?
It's a great business model.
Laughable outlook
Really funny stuff
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German AM company lists Sigma Labs as a partner along with Materialise and others.
Provides AM expertise and installation of AM machines.
https://www.3d-mectronic.com/
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Eh, I'm in a large cap ETF.
High dividends, very rare to see fluctuation in price.
All the profits, less the risk.
To each their own though.
Both those ETFs look great long term
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You're really missing it as usual.
The target end user needs ipqa to adhere to the current machine and Process certification requirements.
The ones trying to ignore the standards are the OEMs because they cant sell a printer and simultaneously say it can't ensure your part is perfect.
So they are the ones who want to skip the standards in this industry, not the end user.
The end user needs the standard to ensure the product, or the products they are producing for someone else, are completed according to process and printer certifications as required by NIST, ASTM, and whatever governing body applicable.
OEMs are producing printers that can't be qualified by themselves, it requires a lot of time and hardware and know-how to certify each machine in a factory. The printers also can't qualify the entire process nor each part.
The current product that is capable of providing all the necessary information for production, while simultaneously ensuring product quality if used to it's full potential, is PR3D by Sigma Labs.
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That's weird bc I'm in the green practicing exactly what I preach...how's that $2 call you made treating people?
I only report facts and rarely give my own opinion and if I do, I clearly state it.
I never call prices bc I know the laws.
You might need to call a lawyer when your financial advice leads to losses.
If anyone needs to file against Outlook for losses due to misleading investors and defamation against sigma labs, I know a good firm who's already looking into it.
Also due to Outlook continued defamation of Sigma Labs employees.
Multiple parties are interested and ready for this lawsuit
Feel free to inquire and message me if you want to be included as an affected party.
Lol
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His questions and theories get embarrassed in one sentence every post he attempts to sputter out a point.
Literally everything he's ever said I've proved wrong with fact.
He's never made a valid point about anything and constantly spreads disinformation made up in his own head.
It's truly amazing the lack of any actual thought process behind every sentence.
Just pure speculation and wasting of time.
Making correlations and determinations with no expertise or understanding of the matter.
Just garbage outlook as usual.
Literally less than worthless.
Sad existence.
I already do your DD for sigma I'm not doing it for morf too lmao
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Omg he called me weak :((((
But my mind and bank account stronger than his so I guess I'll get over it.
Ahhhaa
I never said that. As usual putting words in my mouth, just like you put my balls in your mouth every time I make a post.
You must like the taste.
Love ya hater
And how many will they produce or offer their expertise as a service in design and implementation of such technologies.
Already we see companies who want to jump into AM but have no clue what they are doing and often dump millions into facilities with continued expenses to upgrade systems and personnel to meet the minimum requirements for production.
I'm certain IN4.0S have done the due diligence to understand there is a market for the engineering and technological expertise to assist companies set up factories.
If there wasn't, they wouldn't exist.
Having an engineering team setting up factories partnered to sell Sigma software is a good thing.
Low overhead way to sell software directly to end users without having to hire extensive sale staff or pay for advertising.
Smart move.
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"neither version has any margin until they are profitable"
That's not how margins work.
Margin is based on cost to produce, not cost of operations.
That's a different equation.
It's to my understanding business 101 is offered at most community colleges if interested.
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"After rigorous testing we are pleased to announce that PrintRite3D has been selected as our preferred solution for melt pool monitoring for our LASERTEC SLM line of 3D printers," said Mathias Wolpiansky, Managing Director, Additive GmBH. "Our partnership offers our customers the best integrated and most advanced melt pool monitoring solution in the market today. We look forward to working with Sigma's engineering team to continue enhancing our integration and deliver more innovative solutions in the coming year."
"Sigma Labs' PrintRite3D® is a crucial component of making additive manufacturing mainstream for critical manufacturing and delivering qualified products," said R J Singh, IN4.OS's CEO. "We look ahead to ushering in a new era of American manufacturing with our strategic partners, Sigma Labs and DMG MORI."
Important words and phrases
- most advanced melt pool monitoring solution in the market today
-crucial component of making additive manufacturing mainstream for critical manufacturing and delivering qualified products.
This is what the goal has been and continues to be as additive manufacturing is just beginning mass production with outlined certifications and standards for the first time in history.
Those producing and using intensive CT scanning to hope parts are good after the fact will get on board with the standards, as required in the industry in which they participate
Certify printers +
Certify process
= Certified quality parts
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After Hours looking nice. Will be interesting to see what happens tmrw AM
Maybe news on standards or previous announced contracts or continued NDAs.
Great connections happening.
$2?
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Rad the description of the Additive Industries printer used.
Describes exactly what the printer has, and is capable of.
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Try reading the information
Never said that. Nor does a temporary fluctuation matter in the grand scheme of things.
The study proves that PR3D works, especially in conjunction with our partners Additive Industries and Ansys.
It's not a difficult concept to comprehend.
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Case study “Utilisation of Process Simulation & Multi-laser Powder Bed Fusion to Produce a Turbine Exhaust Casing ‘H-Sector’"
GKN Aerospace, Ansys and Additive Industries have collaborated to demonstrate their shared capabilities in the production of a large aero engine component. The H-Sector – a Notional Application supporting technology development targeted for future series applications on engine platforms - is part of the Turbine Exhaust Casing assembly within a turbofan engine and has been identified as a candidate with a potential business case for AM production. Such a component helps GKN Aerospace to establish AM capabilities across the manufacturing value chain, aligned to future engine requirements. To meet the requirements of GKN Aerospace in terms of quality and accuracy full scan field multi-laser powder bed fusion from the Additive Industries large frame MetalFAB1 system, and advanced AM process simulation and geometry compensation tools from Ansys have been assessed in this collaboration.
The MetalFAB1 prints with lowest cost per part
The MetalFAB1 has automated the manual steps of conventional powder bed fusion (PBF) printers to ensure highest productivity, resulting in the lowest cost per printed part. The fully automated process reduces human errors and increases reproducibility. Additive Industries evaluates a cost per part business case for new customers.
The MetalFAB1 prints the highest quality parts
For industrial-quality production, the part reproducibility of the MetalFAB1 is assured through solid machine design in combination with advanced laser calibration technology that can be pre-programmed to automatically run at specified intervals. Predictability is achieved by combining part build simulation, scripted process controls and in-process quality monitoring.
https://www.additiveindustries.com/case-study-h-sector
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So you don't understand the concept and the need for 3rd party certification of printers and the process as written in the ASTM standards...got it.
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They just expanded into the DED market...
Try again.
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You don't think there are many new investor/traders when the volume just hit 3 million and increased 50% in a few days?
(I do understand charting, I just think it's risky to base any investment entirely off charts, as they are not always consistent)
In this event, there was a lot of buying activity...more buying then selling..that's why it went up ...
If the company is going to make a move on the news-less move, they will raise funds via an offering to fund future operations.
I'm not depending on a sale.
Of course the price will drop without news.
An offering does not affect the value of the technology.
An offering allows the company to pursue more avenues for profit, and the stability to continue to operate without accruing debt.
This is how every start up operates.
It is up to the investor to make changes based on what is most likely to occur.
It's not a scam.
It's not an evil ceo.
This is how investing works with every startup company, and sometimes even beyond.
I don't think the stock will only increase... everything goes up and down.
The key is to determine when it is likely to make a movement in either direction.
After the return to normal valuation or an offering occurs, a reentry point will allow for investors to make whatever moves they see fit.
If the valuation returns anywhere between the 8-15 million dollar valuation we've been hovering around, the continued increase in contracts and sales, combined with the industry average 5-10x for software/technology, an exponential increase in the valuation of the company is plausible.
The increase, based on the ability to install a units relatively quickly, with larger entities becoming interested...some of which with upwards of 10-20 printers, could be completed in a short time in terms of investing.
This is what allows for continued runs and profits for the astute investor, and continued confusion and dismay for others.
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So then what is it?
Investors deciding the company has a significant chance to increase in value over a period of time based on the connection of factual information.
Due diligence.
Hm. What a great concept.
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Glta.
Right...I'm sure it's not the market response to standards released that basically outline sigma labs technology.
I'm sure it's not a webinar with DMG Mori announcing their printers are PR3D ready.
I'm sure it's not Renishaw saying the OEM industry is going to have to"play ball" with software companies like Sigma Labs for printer certification for production.
Instead it's speculation on what Mark said from a conference call how long ago?
Yeah...that's what the market got fooled by...
Sounds possible...not plausible
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The most talented researchers and scientists in the industry's facts, referenced directly from scientific published papers written by them, accepted by the scientific community, and believed to be fact based on the scientific method.
It's a pretty good system these scientists figured out...
They're generally extremely accurate.
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