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No pumping and no dumping yet before this afternoons report. Any thoughts?
Good news and the weekend to salivate for Mondays opening or bad news and hoping we all forget by Monday?
Wonder who the 1 analyst is? :)
Ceres (NASDAQ:CERE) has received an average broker rating score of 1.00 (Strong Buy) from the one analysts that provide coverage for the company, Zacks Investment Research reports. One analyst has rated the stock with a strong buy recommendation.
Zacks has also assigned Ceres an industry rank of 229 out of 265 based on the ratings given to related companies.
Shares of Ceres (NASDAQ:CERE) opened at 1.81 on Thursday. Ceres has a one year low of $1.44 and a one year high of $6.00. The stock’s 50-day moving average is $2.08 and its 200-day moving average is $2.21. The company’s market cap is $10.92 million.
http://sleekmoney.com/zacks-ceres-receives-average-rating-of-strong-buy-from-brokerages-nasdaqcere/338065/
Be a nice day for some positive CERE news.................just sayin.
Looked that way with the early morning buying. One can hope some buying pressure comes to shake it up a bit
Not exactly thrilled on the choice of Friday though but if they are going to release more bad news then maybe a better day to do so. :(
That and a customer update on Persephone would be nice.
Since CERE is so cheap why wouldn't a company like Syngenta buy them outright? If CERE is moving out of the bio-fuel space wouldn't it make sense in this buyout market. Or am I crazy? They could be acquired for peanuts right now.
did the same at the end of last week, no guts no glory
I wish they would let this dog hunt. After all it's "earnings" week for $CERE
I was happy when I bought CERE
Now it is kicking me in the rear.
I wish they would let it run
So all us longs would have fun
I guess I'll have a beer.
Happy 4th!
Another interesting point and still trying to figure out the 16M day.
As of June 26, 2015, we had outstanding 6,032,222 shares of common stock, held of record by approximately 172 stockholders, and no shares of preferred stock. In addition, as of June 26, 2015, we had outstanding options to acquire 423,082 shares of common stock.
New amendment 2 out to replace the original and this is why.
VIA EDGAR
Division of Corporation Finance
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
100 F Street, N.E.
Washington, D.C. 20549
Attention: Tonya K. Aldave
Re: Ceres, Inc.
Request for Withdrawal of Amendment No. 2
to Registration Statement on Form S-3
File No. 333-204024
Ladies and Gentlemen:
Pursuant to Rule 477 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), Ceres, Inc. (the “Company”) hereby respectfully requests that the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) consent to the withdrawal of Amendment No. 2 to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-204024), filed with the Commission on June 29, 2015, together with all exhibits thereto (“Amendment No. 2”).
The Company is making this request for withdrawal of Amendment No. 2 because Amendment No. 2 was filed with an improper EDGAR tag (as a post-effective amendment); we will be re-filing Amendment No. 2 with the proper EDGAR tag (as a pre-effective amendment).
The Company hereby confirms that no securities have been sold pursuant to the Registration Statement.
The Company understands that, pursuant to Rule 477(b) under the Securities Act, this application for withdrawal will be effective at the time filed with the Commission unless, within fifteen calendar days after the filing, the Commission notifies the Company that the application for withdrawal will not be granted.
If you have any questions with respect to this matter, please contact Danielle Carbone of Shearman & Sterling LLP at (212) 848-8244.
Very truly yours,
Ceres, Inc.
By: /s/ Wilfriede van Assche
Name: Wilfriede van Assche
Title:
Senior Vice President & General Counsel
From the things that make you go Hmmm category. Seems like ARTAL is familiar with Naked shorting. From a long ago weight watchers filing and only bring up the fact that things like this could happen, yet not accusing anyone..(aka disclaimer) It's the wild west but interestingly enough it is amendment 3 and we saw 2 yesterday.
From the filing on Weight Watchers around page 80...
http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/105319/000091205701539417/a2063768zs-1a.txt
In connection with the offering, the underwriters may engage in stabilizing
transactions, over-allotment transactions, syndicate covering transactions and
penalty bids in accordance with Regulation M under the Securities Exchange Act
of 1934.
- Stabilizing transactions permit bids to purchase the underlying security
so long as the stabilizing bids do not exceed a specified maximum.
- Over-allotment involves sales by the underwriters of shares in excess of
the number of shares the underwriters are obligated to purchase, which
creates a syndicate short position. The short
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position may be either a covered short position or a naked short position.
In a covered short position, the number of shares over-allotted by the
underwriters is not greater than the number of shares that they may
purchase in the over-allotment option. In a naked short position, the
number of shares involved is greater than the number of shares in the
over-allotment option. The underwriters may close out any short position
by either exercising their over-allotment option and/or purchasing shares
in the open market.
- Syndicate covering transactions involve purchases of the common stock in
the open market after the distribution has been completed in order to
cover syndicate short positions. In determining the source of shares to
close out the short position, the underwriters will consider, among other
things, the price of shares available for purchase in the open market as
compared to the price at which they may purchase shares through the
over-allotment option. If the underwriters sell more shares than could be
covered by the over-allotment option, a naked short position, the position
can only be closed out by buying shares in the open market. A naked short
position is more likely to be created if the underwriters are concerned
that there could be downward pressure on the price of the shares in the
open market after pricing that could adversely affect investors who
purchase in the offering.
- Penalty bids permit the representatives to reclaim a selling concession
from a syndicate member when the common stock originally sold by the
syndicate member is purchased in a stabilizing or syndicate covering
transaction to cover syndicate short positions.
Maybe they should combine forces with NexSteppe. They have much better marketing and we have a ticker symbol and patents. Silly thought.
http://www.nexsteppe.com/
They certainly are scientists and not businessmen. That has been their problem all along. A bunch of smart guys and zero sense for the market. They should suspend it completely as you said and look for a better alternative. That would throw the shorties for a loop.
Another interesting statement.
The Registrant hereby amends this registration statement on such date or dates as may be necessary to delay its effective date until the Registrant shall file a further amendment which specifically states that this registration statement shall thereafter become effective in accordance with Section 8(a) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or until the registration statement shall become effective on such date as the Securities and Exchange Commission, acting pursuant to said Section 8(a), may determine.
All interesting and confusing by design I guess
10% short on the published number, all we need is a trigger. Too bad the company is holding back the stampede IMO. They have 2 patents that are new since the one they PR'd. Amazing they do not release anything other than crickets.
If you read it you will see they have not done anything yet( as of yesterday) from what I see.
From the filing yesterday - As of June 26, 2015, the aggregate market value of our outstanding common stock held by non-affiliates was approximately $8,772,132, based on 6,032,222 shares of outstanding common stock, of which approximately 4,237,745 shares were held by non-affiliates, and a per share price of $2.07 per share, which was the last reported sale price of our common stock on The Nasdaq Capital Market on June 26, 2015. We have not offered any securities pursuant to General Instruction I.B.6. of Form S-3 during the prior 12 calendar month period that ends on and includes the date of this prospectus.
There is no way IMO that nearly 16M shares changed hands a few weeks ago without shiftiness at play. There are only 4.2M shares in non-affiliates hands out of a total of approx 6M total.
Anyone catch anything in the latest sec filing?
So today we get another PATENT!. I am sure this will go un-noticed as most patents for $CERE do. Although the last time they actually issued a PR after the fact the PPS did make a move.
United States Patent 9,068,173
Alexandrov , et al. June 30, 2015
Sequence-determined DNA fragments encoding trehalose-6P phosphatase proteins
Abstract
The present invention provides DNA molecules that constitute fragments of the genome of a plant, and polypeptides encoded thereby. The DNA molecules are useful for specifying a gene product in cells, either as a promoter or as a protein coding sequence or as an UTR or as a 3' termination sequence, and are also useful in controlling the behavior of a gene in the chromosome, in controlling the expression of a gene or as tools for genetic mapping, recognizing or isolating identical or related DNA fragments, or identification of a particular individual organism, or for clustering of a group of organisms with a common trait.
You can find them here
http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/cere/sec-filings
That would definitely make it interesting. I would offer it up if I had a spare 8M. :)
Funny, a month ago we were rivaling the invention of sliced bread. Other than a cost cutting step nothing fundamentally has changed. Hmmmmmm...
http://www.bidnessetc.com/43790-heres-why-ceres-inc-cere-stock-has-soared-100-on-wednesday/
agree 100 percent. I am losing my patience and am getting a bit tired of the shenanigans though. Selling is not what I mean either. There are other ways to highlight what is going on here IMO and it is not the SEC.
I'll be worried after the 16M or so shares that were mysteriously traded are accounted for, one way or another. Till then I am comfortably numb to the swings.
Guess they don't want me then. TY
So I put in a 1K order at the ask of 1.06 and it fills at 1.0599 and paints it red on L2 rather than green. Any thoughts on the logic of it. I am happy to save the .0001 cent per share, but curious why. Any thoughts?
Last time I posted this we made it to 2.69. Lets see if it inspires a rally. LOL
There once was a group called Artal
Who made the price fall
While the company got patents that were real
Investors thought the price was a steal
I bought some more and stood tall!
All my opinion of course...........
Until there is volume behind it we will fumble around all day. If any volume comes into it it moves like a rabbit with a fox chasing it. Wish I was a former powerball winner, I would put 1M on the table just to see what happens. Oh well, back to reality.
No kidding, 1300 shares at 2.19 out of the blue.
$CERE and China.
So 6 months ago there was the PR about the corn seed and jump in yields, yet no more. In the earnings calls, rice in china is also vaguely mentioned at times, yet China activities remain behind the scenes. In 2012 they PR'd the below and the research should still be ongoing until 2016, although not much publicly released. Now I found this co-authored by one of, if not the top guy about what they have found in rice research. http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/content/43/D1/D1023.full
All interesting and fits right in with the black helicopter theories of way more going on under the hood. Corn and Rice, food staples and in countries that need food.
Ceres Receives $3.5 million from USAID for Trait Stacks
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. — November 08, 2012 — Energy crop company Ceres, Inc. (Nasdaq: CERE) today announced that the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, has expanded its grant to the company to develop traits in rice for Asia. Based on Ceres’ success to date, USAID will provide an additional $3.5 million to Ceres over the next four years to extend field trialing and development of the company’s biotech traits and trait stacks in rice. The company will also help foster the development of local expertise in biotech traits in rice within India. The USAID grant to Ceres is administered in alignment with the Feed the Future Research Strategy, which is a component of Feed the Future, the U.S. government’s global hunger and food security initiative.
6 months ago this was a nice PR, wonder what happened to the corn in China?
'Favourable' biotech corn seed data send Ceres shares soaring
By Agrimoney.com - Published 09/01/2015
Ceres' flagging shares rebounded by one-third after the seed group revealed that genetically modified corn it is researching in China had shown a 25% jump in yields, potentially opening up "an exciting area for value creation".
The US-based group - which in November, soon after harvesting field trials of its biotech corn said that results appeared "positive" – said on Friday that many of its plots had achieved a "25% yield advantage" over unnamed alternative varieties planted as controls.
"A second year of field trials demonstrated significant yield advantages," Ceres said, adding that the improvements had been evident in both normal and drought conditions.
The group, which unlike some other seed developers promotes the mixing of its genetically modified traits, said that the best combinations faced "broader field evaluations" next year.
'Critical stage'
The results in what Ceres termed a "critical stage" of the biotech seed development process, offering "greater insight into how traits may perform in an agricultural setting", represented an "exciting area for value creation".
"Double-digit percentage increases in highly bred corn hybrids are urgently needed in a crop where a few percentage point increases are the norm," said Richard Flavell, the Ceres chief scientific advisor.
The group also said it may attempt to licence to other biotech seed groups its iCode technology which enhances the testing of multiple genetically modified traits.
The promising gene combinations flagged up by iCode "may well" enable large increases in yields, "and shape crop biotechnology for years to come," Dr Flavell said.
Shares jump
The results of the corn trials, which were undertaken in China with the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, prompted a 33% jump to $0.3195 in Ceres shares in early deals in New York.
The shares stood up 16.8% at $0.2803 in afternoon deals.
Ceres stock last month hit an all-time low of $0.21, well below the high of $18.70 reached in March 2012, soon after the company floated.
No doubt....Tomorrows another day I reckon.
More like until some positive news, we float like a beach ball on the ocean.
5,683 shares so far, blistering pace on L2
You are 100 percent right and we need spirit like this to get a rally going.
I start my day with getting up and that is always positive. Let's see how the big shots in control play today in the sandbox and at the end of the day we will see if our sand castle(CERE) is getting an addition or if someone steps on it.
Another leading indicator is increasing! The MBA (message board activity)
:)
Now that would be sweet. Wonder if they are waiting on ER to discuss or if it will slip out. Where did you find this tidbit?
I was working in a few as well, or at least trying to. Going to get interesting soon and if and its a big if the word revenue is mentioned anywhere in a release it will lift off IMO. GLTA