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Have Rice and the other directors actually bought shares or are they simply the beneficiaries of the options they have been granted?
You say many of the longs you remember from years ago have bailed. Yet your profile indicates your present alias was born 2 years ago yesterday - June 26, 2017.
Are you another poster with multiple IDs?
It is also revealing to read your very positive endorsements of John Rice
as recently as 2 months ago. Now you pretty much demean Sigma and its management.
That is simply your opinion - not fact.
The present staff of engineers and technicians and consultants and advisors have brought closed loop to the beta stage.
You stated the engineers have no clue how to perfect the software.
Sales are dependent on market forces and timing of need or demand for the product.
Prospective customers thus far have not expressed an immediate need for the product but none have
said the product doesn’t work or needs to be perfected.
Why do you say that when Sigma engineers and technicians have now brought closed loop to the beta stage? It would appear they have made significant progress.
You better go back and read your post. You contend the fact she left indicates there is no likelihood of significant revenues. If she did not leave voluntarily, your point is moot.
No, I certainly don’t, but apparently Outlook does
Do you know whose choice it was for Nanette to leave? Was it Nanette’s or the company? You assume Nanette bailed. That may not be the case. And, if it is, you do not know the circumstances.
You need to find a different broker if 2 cents on 1300 shares ($26.00) wouldn’t cover your commission.
Schwab would do it for $4.95.
A “loose time frame given” by some poster on this board is not necessarily credible. It is an opinion like yours or mine - not a statement by a Sigma representative.
What is your source for saying there are no sales projections for the next 12-18 months?
That may be your opinion, but it is fact or just your negative spin?
You really don’t understand Linked In or social media. Do you really think someone (other than a hacker performing a criminal act) can access and edit someone else’s posting?
Let’s be objective. Exactly which “friends and neighbors and so on” did Mark Cola hire?
Where do you get that Sigma has 31 employees? I thought it was more like 16 or 18. If it is now 31, that would certainly be a positive indication that they expect a lot of business in the immediate future.
Many of us will be so glad when December 31 arrives. It would be tempting to forgo any gains until after that date.
Thank you, Jeff !
Thank you.
How many employees does Sigma presently have?
Are there any reports, comments or transcripts available from John Rice’s presentation yesterday at the LD Micro Conference in Los Angeles?
That was RFB a couple days ago in another one of his posts where he scoffed at the need for PR3D
Who are the other “proven suppliers” of quality assurance for AM?
I’d like to check them out as possible investment opportunities.
If quality assurance is essential to a company and they have immediate need, price is not a deterrent if there is only one proven supplier.
Ted, what is the present headcount of Sigma employees?
I know they have recently added to the sales staff. Have they also added technical or support staff?
I doubt that the price of PR3D is a serious deterrent to the big companies that are regarded as prospective customers. It is more a question of whether these major international companies have a need for PR3D and when.
RTE stands for the Rapid Test and Evaluation program initiated by Sigma this past winter.
If you check the record, I believe you will find the statement to which you refer was made by John Rice in a conference call about 7 weeks ago and that, in answer to a question, he said he hoped the company would average about one new RTE per month this year.
This year is not yet 5 months old and they have 5 RTE in place.
Did you ever participate in the conference calls or attend the annual meeting? Few did.
There was one recent call where no one asked a question and another where only one shareholder participated.
Vision, do you plan to attend the RAPID+TCT conference in Detroit next week ?
I hope so. I always appreciate your insight and perspective as it relates to Sigma’s development and acceptance by the additive manufacturing industry.
Is 10-Q due today ?
It apparently did not trade at $1.30 in the final 3 hours and 16 minutes so how can you say someone jumped over your $1.30 in the closing minutes?
What is your point in these conflicting messages?
You go from one extreme (exceedingly bullish) to the other (exceedingly bearish) in the same day.
It tends to diminish the relevance of all your messages and impugn your credibility.
It’s not much of a sell off when the volume is only 20,000+ shares and the dollar value around $30,000
C’mon.
There can never be any pertinent information on conference calls that is not already in the public domain through press releases and/or SEC filings.
The investor base was 500. Now it is 7,000. How do you think that happened? Certainly not the conference calls.
Why do you think less information will be available? The company can still issue press releases and shareholder letters. The only thing that may be missing is the Q & A in the quarterly conference calls in which the CEO had to avoid or parry any questions (and sometimes there were few or none) relating to information or projections that had not already been a matter of public record.
I have no problem with Sigma’s decision to discontinue the quarterly earnings calls.
Frankly, it seems like a prudent decision.
As John Rice points out, the company is restrained in conference calls from disclosing any material information that has not already been made public and must avoid or parry any questions about future expectations or issues that have not yet been announced for proprietary reasons.
So, there is little to be gleaned from the conference calls and apparently minimal interest from shareholders. As others have pointed out, there was only one investor who participated in the Q & A in the most recent call, and there was another conference call in the last couple years where there was not a single question or comment from investors or interested parties.
I found the most useful portion of the quarterly conference calls to be the CEO’s opening remarks where he summarized the company’s activities. John can still deliver such comments in written form along with the quarterly earnings report in either a press release or letter to shareholders.
It is surprising to learn there are more than 7,000 shareholders in SGLB. I would have thought it would be more like 700.
With 7,000 shareholders and about 10.5 million shares outstanding, the average (the mean) is about 1,500 shares per shareholder. Given the substantial holdings by Carl Schwartz and a few other investors, it would appear that many shareholders (including perhaps some posters on this board) hold only a few hundred shares.
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The market does not appear to be very impressed with the news.