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NAII - after thinking about it, i also decided,
like a few others here, to sell it yesterday @11
and take the 5% loss without holding into earnings.
While it isn't expensive around 10 and might be
good for trading, i think it will be dead money for a while.
The stock should close today the September gap it left on
the chart.
Re: yahoo portfolios. It turns out that the
hack was the reason i couldn't get in to my portfolios.
They wanted me to change the password and only after
i changed it, i could see my portfolios.
Biotechs - bought ITEK, NEOS and added
to SCMP last week. Hopefully there won't be
any drama with Trump and Biotechs soon.
SCMP - added below 11
NEOS - took advantage of the public offering on
Friday and bought @4.95
A NEOS write up from seeking alpha:
http://seekingalpha.com/article/4033276-2017-breakout-year-neos-therapeutics
ITEK - bought @1.55 for a bounce. Hopefully it put
a bottom @1.5 after a long consolidation @1.5-1.65
This one trades with the 5 cent rule which is absurd
for a stock around 1.5.
The idiots who made this rule should have made
it so that when a stock goes below a certain level
(let's say $3), the rule will no longer apply.
Thanks Re59 and SSK. When i try to enter my portfolios,
it takes me to yahoo's main page and it says:
Hmmm... the page you're looking for isn't here. Try searching above.
Speaking of the y site, what happened to
yahoo portfolios? i can't get it for over a week.
Does anyone know what's going on?
SCMP - bought @11.65. The stock now closed the
November gap, is oversold and stochastics are
in a buying zone.
NROM - sold the rest @.65-.67
NROM - WTF? sold some around .80 now. This is
now more than a double in a few days.
Sold my trading shares way too soon a few days ago.
FTLF - i have been accumulating around .90
The stock is down sharply since Q3 results
and haven't bounced so far.
Even after Q3 loss, they made 0.13 for the nine
months ended September 30.
Re: biotech tax loss plays
I only bought two:
ADMA @4.5 which i sold today @5.26 for a 17% profit
STDY @2.6 which i still hold.
NROM - sold the shares i bought two weeks ago
@.45-.46 for 23% profit.
PERI - sold around 1.62 yesterday and today
for a 32% profit as the stock is overbought.
The stock @1.66 was up 76% from the low in November.
I also sold some in the last few weeks above .06
(including today to that large bid) to get
my investment back. I kept adding last year as low
as .016 (#msg-121604559) and had over million shares
@.019 average, so wanted to lock in some profits.
I think he means Nostradumbass.
>>Responding to wade is a waste of everyone's time and just clogs up the board. I don't want to be part of the problem anymore.<<
Finally! congrats.
I told you this months ago #msg-121121133
I never understood why some of the best investors
i know, are wasting their and this thread's time
posting endlessly to this whining clown.
NROM - added in the last few days @.37
PERI - sold @1.38 for a 28% profit
NAII - bought around 11.6 and will add
more if it goes lower.
WADE - whining already!
Sheesh ! Every time he buys a stock and it doesn't go up
after 2 seconds, he whines for the last 3 years !
ARCI - sold around 1.55 for a 70% profit
They just tweeted
$AMPG 3Q bottom line >30% Net Profit!!
https://twitter.com/AmpliTechAMPG
Someone should tell him that he should have
mentioned that insignificant detail in the PR...
They didn't mention the excellent bottom line
of 240k vs 16k in Q3/15. Seriously?
Was it so difficult to add another line or two?
AMPG - the Q was much better than i thought.
That was a nice surprise.
PERI - bought @1.08
ARCI (.90) - I have been buying it around this
level. I think this is a good gamble here because
Q3 results will show around 27 cents in earnings contribution
from the carbon offset sale ($1.6 million).
They also had very good Cash flow from operations in the first
2 quarters, of $5.6 million ($2.9m in Q1 and $2.7m in Q2) which
most of it was used to reduce their line of credit and debt.
NROM - bought around .47. Played it earlier
this year (bought around .50 and sold around .70)
when the Privet fund sold their shares and took
the stock down.
Now with the stock back below .50 due to the selling
of RED ALDER MASTER FUND (they paid around 1.8 for
their shares, so probably doing tax loss selling),
it seems like a good buy here.
GIGA - i looked at it in the last few
days and i agree with you that they won't
be profitable soon.
Also, there is a problem with the sale of the legacy
business to Spanawave in January.
From the September 20th shareholder letter:
"However, we are disappointed to see that the acquisition of the legacy T&M business has resulted in disagreements with the acquirer that we are trying to resolve. Regardless of the complications, our original four reasons for divesting the legacy T&M business remain the guiding principles in our attempt to drive the process forward."
"While we have made progress with some of our plans, we are not finished. We are still not profitable, and we remain constrained due to our overall capitalization. We must grow revenue, particularly with our Advanced Signal Generator product, while simultaneously using capital more efficiently. I encourage you to read through our recent 10-K filing to better understand the changes that have occurred in the company over the last few years as well as the challenges that remain."
http://www.otcmarkets.com/edgar/GetFilingHtml?FilingID=11599676
PERI - CEO finally stepping down:
Josef Mandelbaum to Step Down as CEO of Perion
GlobeNewswire•September 27, 2016
TEL AVIV, Israel & NEW YORK, Sept. 27, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Perion Network Ltd. (PERI), a global technology company that delivers high-quality advertising solutions for brands and publishers, announced today that Josef Mandelbaum will be leaving his position as Chief Executive Officer after a transition period of up to several months. The Board of Directors has begun a search for the Company's next CEO and the Board and Josef are committed to a seamless transition.
"On behalf of the entire Board, I want to thank Josef for his devoted leadership and contributions to Perion. Josef took a small one-product company with $29 million of annual revenue and turned it into a global company with diversified revenues of over $300 million. After six years, the Company and Josef decided that it is the right time to transition to new leadership and focus on moving the business forward and increasing shareholder value. I am confident our search will yield a strong candidate to lead Perion on its next phase of growth and we sincerely wish Josef all the best in all his future endeavors,” said Alan Gelman, Chairman of the Board of Directors.
"I am proud of what we have accomplished to date and very grateful for the opportunity to work with such amazing people at the company. I want to thank the employees and Directors of Perion, past and present, for helping make Perion a great company and a place to call home these past six years. Together, despite many external challenges, we built a company with significant revenues and strong EBITDA. Equally important, we built a culture of warmth and caring both internally and for the community at large," said Josef Mandelbaum, CEO of Perion.
"While we have made good progress on executing our strategy, the Board and I understand that to truly move the business forward, a change is needed. This change will allow the Company to focus on the future, give it time to execute without distractions and deliver increased shareholder value. I have full confidence in management and the employees and know that they will succeed," concluded Mr. Mandelbaum.
About Perion Network Ltd.
Perion is a global technology company that delivers high-impact intent based advertising solutions to brands and publishers. Perion is committed to providing outstanding execution, from high-impact ad formats to branded search and a unified social and mobile programmatic platform. More information about Perion may be found at www.perion.com, and follow Perion on Twitter @perionnetwork.
ESCC - sold in the .90's today for 30% profit
MHH - Mastech Holdings, Inc. Changes Name to Mastech Digital, Inc.
[PR Newswire]
September 12, 2016
PITTSBURGH, Sept. 12, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Mastech Holdings, Inc. (NYSE MKT: MHH), a national provider of IT staffing and digital transformation services, announced today that it has changed its name to Mastech Digital, Inc. The ticker symbol "MHH" for the Company's common stock listed on the NYSE MKT will remain the same. The effective date of the name change with the NYSE MKT will be September 15, 2016.
Mastech Digital, Inc.
The name change is part of the Company's rebranding initiative to reinforce the message that it is fully committed to the world of 'Digital' – which includes the SMAC, Automation and IoT technologies. (SMAC is an acronym for Social, Mobility, Analytics and Cloud.)
The rebranding is accompanied by a change in the company's logo and a refreshed corporate website www.mastechdigital.com. The Company's new logo is a chic design, made up of vibrant colors, contemporary typefaces and a stylized motif of connecting dots, which conveys its renewed focus and capabilities to solve customers' business problems by 'connecting the dots' digitally.
Commenting on this rebranding initiative, Vivek Gupta, the Company's President & CEO, said, "Our new name, Mastech Digital, reflects our ongoing transformation into a digital technologies company. While we will continue to offer IT staffing services, we have added focus and capabilities in staffing around the digital technologies. Additionally, we have started offering new project-based digital transformation services, beginning with Salesforce.com, SAP HANA and Digital Learning. Over the next several quarters we expect to enrich this portfolio of offerings further to address the wider digital transformation needs of our existing and prospective customers."
About Mastech Digital, Inc.:
Mastech Digital (NYSE MKT: MHH) is a national provider of IT staffing and digital transformation services focused on solving its customers' digital transformation challenges. The Company's IT staffing services span across digital and legacy technologies while its digital transformation services include Salesforce.com, SAP HANA and digital learning services. A minority-owned enterprise, Mastech Digital is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA with offices across the U.S. and India. For more information, visit www.mastechdigital.com.
AMPG - AmpliTech Group Inc. Announces Operational Update
[Marketwired]
September 9, 2016
BOHEMIA, NY--(Marketwired - Sep 9, 2016) - ( OTCQB : AMPG ) Amplitech Group Inc., a leader in state-of-the-art RF Low Noise Amplifiers (LNA) and Power Amplifiers (PA) for the Domestic and International, SATCOM, Space, and Military markets, today announced an update on business performance for the quarter, and general business planning. The company is pleased to announce that this current quarter, the Company's third fiscal quarter, is on pace for its best performing quarter for revenues in Company history.
CEO Fawad Maqbool commented, "It is with great enthusiasm that I am updating our shareholders -- and those who are following our emerging story -- on fiscal performance, as Amplitech continues to show that we are thriving, and demonstrating strong revenue growth for the current third quarter. Our revenues this quarter have already outpaced that of the fiscal second quarter of this year, and we have much room to go. 2016 is a year in which we are investing into sales and marketing just a bit more than in the past, and the Return On Investment is encouraging. The strength of this quarter, and the second quarter that we recently reported, continues to also strengthen our balance sheet, which will enable us flexibility in the future to both expand our marketing and sales for our varied product base, but also to finally complete R&D to launch new and exciting products for what we foresee as burgeoning areas of growth emerging in our markets, and increasing demands for complex solutions. Our expertise lies in complex solutions, and best of breed products. I look forward to continued updates on our revenue growth and other developments as they arise."
About Amplitech Group, Inc:
AmpliTech Group, Inc. designs, develops, and manufactures custom and standard state-of-the-art RF (Low Noise Amplifiers (LNA) and Power Amplifiers (PA) for the Domestic and International, SATCOM, Space, and Military markets. These designs cover the frequency range from 50 kHz to 40 GHz -- eventually, offering designs up to 100 GHz. AmpliTech also provides consulting services to help with any microwave components or systems design problems. Our steady growth over the past 13+ years has come about because we can provide complex, custom solutions for nearly ANY custom requirements that are presented us. In addition, we have the best assemblers, wires, and technicians in the industry and can provide contract assembly of customers' own designs. Click here to view AmpliTech video. Website: www.AmpliTechInc.com
AmpliTech Group Inc. Announces Operational Update
[Marketwired]
September 9, 2016
BOHEMIA, NY--(Marketwired - Sep 9, 2016) - ( OTCQB : AMPG ) Amplitech Group Inc., a leader in state-of-the-art RF Low Noise Amplifiers (LNA) and Power Amplifiers (PA) for the Domestic and International, SATCOM, Space, and Military markets, today announced an update on business performance for the quarter, and general business planning. The company is pleased to announce that this current quarter, the Company's third fiscal quarter, is on pace for its best performing quarter for revenues in Company history.
CEO Fawad Maqbool commented, "It is with great enthusiasm that I am updating our shareholders -- and those who are following our emerging story -- on fiscal performance, as Amplitech continues to show that we are thriving, and demonstrating strong revenue growth for the current third quarter. Our revenues this quarter have already outpaced that of the fiscal second quarter of this year, and we have much room to go. 2016 is a year in which we are investing into sales and marketing just a bit more than in the past, and the Return On Investment is encouraging. The strength of this quarter, and the second quarter that we recently reported, continues to also strengthen our balance sheet, which will enable us flexibility in the future to both expand our marketing and sales for our varied product base, but also to finally complete R&D to launch new and exciting products for what we foresee as burgeoning areas of growth emerging in our markets, and increasing demands for complex solutions. Our expertise lies in complex solutions, and best of breed products. I look forward to continued updates on our revenue growth and other developments as they arise."
About Amplitech Group, Inc:
AmpliTech Group, Inc. designs, develops, and manufactures custom and standard state-of-the-art RF (Low Noise Amplifiers (LNA) and Power Amplifiers (PA) for the Domestic and International, SATCOM, Space, and Military markets. These designs cover the frequency range from 50 kHz to 40 GHz -- eventually, offering designs up to 100 GHz. AmpliTech also provides consulting services to help with any microwave components or systems design problems. Our steady growth over the past 13+ years has come about because we can provide complex, custom solutions for nearly ANY custom requirements that are presented us. In addition, we have the best assemblers, wires, and technicians in the industry and can provide contract assembly of customers' own designs. Click here to view AmpliTech video. Website: www.AmpliTechInc.com
I looked at AMPG's last few 10Q & 10K inventory vs revenues
and when they had revenues of around 380k, their inventory
was around 160k in the end of the preceding quarter.
In the end of Q1 2016, their inventory jumped to 231k
and their revenues jumped to 505k in Q2.
In the end of Q2, their inventory was $311k, so revenues
in Q3 should see another jump from Q2 revenues.
PERI - i bought as well in the last few
days around 1.23 and will buy more around
this level.
The stock was slightly overbought around 1.45 and 1.22 Is the
50 day MA, so i waited for the stock to come down
to this level and for stochastics to go down before buying.
HRTG - sold @13.9 for a 20% profit
HRTG - sold @13.9 for a 20% profit
MHH - Thank you to the seller from last
week who let me buy back all i wanted @6.35
AMPG - AmpliTech Group Receives Over $1 Million in Orders
[Marketwired]
July 27, 2016
BOHEMIA, NY--(Marketwired - Jul 27, 2016) - AmpliTech Group, Inc. ( OTCQB : AMPG ) (the "Company") announced today the receipt of $403,000 of orders in fiscal second quarter 2016 and over $700,000 in the month of July, 2016. CEO Fawad Maqbool stated, "We are extremely pleased that our bookings have continued to increase. Although much of our backlog is from repeat customers who realize our superior performance, service, and quality are the keys to their ultimate success, we are pleased that our new products and marketing strategy have also contributed to our increased bookings. With these bookings, coupled with bookings for the rest of the year, we are on track to surpass last year's revenue and profit. Additionally, the receivables will improve our cash flow position and balance sheet."
The Company is also actively continuing efforts to partner with key OEM's to provide superior products for microwave communication and wireless markets. These efforts will expand its reach into rapidly growing sectors of the industry, and increase the Company's market share in existing and new business platforms.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/amplitech-group-receives-over-1-121940472.html
AmpliTech Group Receives Over $1 Million in Orders
[Marketwired]
July 27, 2016
BOHEMIA, NY--(Marketwired - Jul 27, 2016) - AmpliTech Group, Inc. ( OTCQB : AMPG ) (the "Company") announced today the receipt of $403,000 of orders in fiscal second quarter 2016 and over $700,000 in the month of July, 2016. CEO Fawad Maqbool stated, "We are extremely pleased that our bookings have continued to increase. Although much of our backlog is from repeat customers who realize our superior performance, service, and quality are the keys to their ultimate success, we are pleased that our new products and marketing strategy have also contributed to our increased bookings. With these bookings, coupled with bookings for the rest of the year, we are on track to surpass last year's revenue and profit. Additionally, the receivables will improve our cash flow position and balance sheet."
The Company is also actively continuing efforts to partner with key OEM's to provide superior products for microwave communication and wireless markets. These efforts will expand its reach into rapidly growing sectors of the industry, and increase the Company's market share in existing and new business platforms.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/amplitech-group-receives-over-1-121940472.html
MHH - posts $0.25 Non-GAAP and $0.21 GAAP
*Revenues totaled $33.6 million compared to $29.3 million in the 2015 second quarter; and represented a 6% sequential increase over first quarter 2016
*Consultants-on-Billing increased by 7% during the second quarter
*During the quarter, they reduced outstanding debt balance by approx $1.7 million.
PITTSBURGH, July 27, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Mastech Holdings, Inc. (NYSE MKT: MHH), a national provider of Information Technology staffing services, announced today its financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2016.
Mastech Holdings, Inc.
Second Quarter 2016 Highlights:
Revenues totaled $33.6 million compared to $29.3 million in the 2015 second quarter; and represented a 6% sequential increase over first quarter 2016;
Gross profit margins increased to 20.5% from 18.8% in the second quarter of 2015 and 19.3% in the first quarter of 2016;
Non-GAAP diluted earnings per share were $0.25 versus $0.18 per diluted share in the 2015;
GAAP diluted earnings per share were $0.21 versus $0.09 per diluted share in the 2015 second quarter; and
Consultants-on-Billing increased by 7% during the second quarter of 2016 compared to flat organic growth in the second quarter of 2015.
Second Quarter Results:
Revenues for the second quarter of 2016 totaled $33.6 million compared to $29.3 million during the corresponding quarter last year. Gross profit in the second quarter of 2016 was $6.9 million compared to $5.5 million in the second quarter of 2015. GAAP net income for the second quarter of 2016 totaled $945,000, compared to $382,000 during the same period last year. Non-GAAP net income for the second quarter of 2016 was $1.1 million, compared to $801,000 in the second quarter of 2015. GAAP diluted earnings per share were $0.21 in the second quarter of 2016 compared to $0.09 in the second quarter of 2015. Non-GAAP diluted earnings per share were $0.25 in the second quarter of 2016 compared to $0.18 for the corresponding period in 2015.
Demand for the Company's staffing services was up from the previous quarter, resulting in an increase to our consultant-base of 62 consultants to a total of 916 consultants-on-billing at quarter end. Gross margins in the second quarter of 2016 were 20.5%, representing a material increase from both the previous quarter's 19.3% gross margin performance and the 18.8% margins that were reported in second quarter 2015.
Commenting on the Company's second quarter 2016, Vivek Gupta, Mastech's Chief Executive Officer, stated, "We were able to organically grow our consultant-base during the quarter by 7%; our gross margins improved nicely from a quarter ago; and we completed a number of personnel moves aimed at strengthening our leadership capabilities and improving our operational effectiveness. Additionally, we have begun our journey of re-positioning Mastech to capitalize on opportunities in the vast area of digital technologies."
Jack Cronin, Mastech's Chief Financial Officer, stated, "Our financial position at June 30, 2016 remains strong with $13 million of outstanding debt, net of cash balances on hand, and access to $10.7 million of borrowing capacity. During the quarter, we were able to reduce our outstanding debt balance by approximately $1.7 million."
In conjunction with its second quarter earnings release, Mastech will host a conference call at 9:00 A. M. ET on July 27, 2016 to discuss these results and to answer questions. A live webcast of this conference call will be available on the Company's website, www.mastech.com. Simply click on the Investor Relations section and follow the links to the live webcast. The webcast will remain available for replay through August 3, 2016.
About Mastech Holdings, Inc.:
Leveraging the power of 30 years of IT experience, Mastech (NYSE MKT: MHH) provides Information Technology Staffing services in the disciplines which drive today's business operations. More information about Mastech can be found at Mastech's website: www.mastech.com.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/mastech-holdings-inc-reports-second-110000888.html