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Stating a trend substantiated by LQMT’s current charts, declining interest and increasing operating costs heading into another probable recession is not advocating shorting this stock. Especially when both the trading volumes and revenues are declining annually.
It’s a slam dunk that the stock will continue also to decline in price if no new contracts for revenues are achieved. All want to see contracts. Real contracts and not imaginary ones that have a zero chance of connecting with LQMT.
This is reality not imaginary shorting or wishful thinking. The stock does not have to drop at all to make money in LQMT. The reasons it will drop would be to increase trading volumes by decreasing the pps to perhaps attract new dice rollers to buy in at cheaper prices. The high risk reward remains the same. So does the risk of the pps declining further.
It’s why the pps dropped below a dime. There was no volume to support it any longer with the recent financials released.
One can’t short a stock shorting itself. One would lose if they did. So hang on.
Old news theories no new news contracts=.09
Regarding imaginary shorting of LQMT…
Imo, Bashing or hyping neither drives the share price up or down. Neither does the potential of the material in this micro cap draw a great amount of interest and at best draws very little. Bashing or hyping neither increases or decreases the extremely low daily trading volumes, nor does bashing or hyping increase or decrease the extremely low daily liquidity in the stock.
LQMT can do all of the above very well with their 10Q’s, 8 K’s, 10k’s, PR’s, blogs and lack of PR’s and lack of Blogs. And they can do it all, all by their very own lonesome selves. They have been doing it imo, very well either unintentionally or intentionally by their lonesome selves.
If anyone imho, still believes that hyping or bashing following LQMT’s operating decisions 2018 to 2019 have a significant impact on the share price. The facts are LQMT’s reality of long term actual operations results are sufficient to pop and drop the share price between 0.06 and 0.18 cents during each year on their own. LQMT does not need external hype or gripe in doing this. Especially with the low volumes that move the share price up and down anyway with ease.
Whatever the norms are for shorting a stock. IMO, LQMT does not fit that norm. Paranoia might or lack of factual awareness or total disregard for facts and reality.
The factual pops and drops around LQMT’s PR’s are not imaginary and are not due to any imaginary hype or gripe. They are the results of the reality of the information released by LQMT. Just look at the pps before a PR AND TWO WEEKS LATER.
The hype or gripe do not add or subtract one penny from a 8K, 10Q, or 10K. If they did, IMHO, I think everyone who owns stock in LQMT, would be hyping the stock to pump it up to $10 dollars right now.
IMO, outsiders are not scaring anyone to sell their shares. If anything LQMT does a great job of this by their last three events. The CC, the 10k, the 10Q and the lack of a PR for the most recent 10Q. Or their longer term failures to succeed.
IMO, long term shareholders are not influenced by outsiders who hype or gripe. If anyone sold or is thinking of selling IMHO, it is due to LQMT’s actual results or lack of results and operating conduct that is the sole factor in their decisions. As well as to hold or add more.
That’s the reality of the pops and drops based on factual and actual events. And they occur exactly around the time of a LQMT event. Not at any other time. Before 2018 rumors and market gurus played a much more active role. No more. That was gone and has been since the perfect 2017 storm followed by the OH DEBACLE.
Now it’s ok to ignore the facts and believe other theories that there may be an element trying to short the stock. But if one wants to still earn money on this high risk great potential dice roll. My bet is on the facts of LQMT’s actual results and not on theories.
Five wash rinse and repeat cycles haven’t been wrong once. Perhaps the sixth one will. Time will tell. So far as dumb as I am, I haven’t been wrong since 2017. My bet is on LQMT and not on any hypes or gripes.
Can’t wait to read the next March 2022 explosive news release. Wow, that one really had everyone hoping it was correct. Or maybe the Professor will surprise everyone with a special email message of a whale has been caught. So much for NDA’s.
I don’t mind positive DD or positive news when it comes to LQMT. But it should be rooted in positive facts of positive news from LQMT USA. Like actual contracts. Not asking much. Just an announcement from LQMT that their prototypes expenses are now resulting in a positive pipeline for vertical growth.
Don’t care if Eontec or company xyz makes a billion. Just want to see LQMT release contracts worth a million. Let me know when that happens. Now that would be real DD.
LQMT shorts? Nope. The only shorts one might see are the ones people might be wearing this summer. :)
Like I said: “As far as imaginary mm’s or shorts goes…there is nothing to short here. LQMT is an extremely low liquidity anemic daily trading stock earning meaningless revenues with very little to no communications between quarter’s company. What that means is there realistically aren’t many interested in the stock and the ones who own enough shares to influence its pps are insiders and those executives who left the company. Which in their case would be very detrimental to their own positions and options to gain.
You don’t have to short a stock with no growth, low liquidity and minuscule trading volumes trading near a nickel or a dime that once traded higher. The declining pps does it all by itself based on what has already been posted by myself and many others much more brilliant than I.”
Just as this stock drops on anemic volumes, it rises too on the same anemic volumes. There are no shorts. There definitely is control by the mm’s to make a profit if they can. But there is not much liquidity to make any spread to profit in one way or the other.
There are on the other hand occasions where LQMT releases PR where gains can be made on the pops. That’s called buying low selling high short term. You don’t ever need to short this stock for those dice rolls. You can buy in at .09 or .10 and sell at around 0.125 to 0.14 cents. I’ve already done that. So I don’t worry about it dropping lower. Like the long term shares that are held, I just wait for the pr and pop. And if the pps does drop into the 8’s or .07’s or .06’s I’ll add some more and lower the short term sell price.
No one ever has to short this stock. The lack of PR’s , the lack of communications, the lack of significant contracts, the lack of more customers, and the disappointing 10Ks and 10Q’s are always enough to drop the pps back down 50% to 60% and more.
But don’t ever take my word for it. Look at the 10 year and five year charts and you will get a good idea. If you need more info like that, you won’t find it on another website. You will find it in LQMT’s filed statements.
You absolutely won’t find it in China.
How the heck does one short at stock that can move up 7% on a few thousand shares trading. That’s a good one. Explain that one. Especially, when there is almost zero demand for the stock.
You were doing much better with that March 2022 explosive news thing and TC. CC thing and 0.50 to a dollar hype. At least that was all in the USA. But those copy and paste China stories, that’s too much of a stretch even for an insane dice roller. I would definitely stick with the explosive March 2022 story and leave the hope and expectations to the other websites, where those stories are a better fit.
Just my opinion, which is always worth less than the price of LQMT.
Where is the proof to a fact less and baseless statement. Regarding China and LQMT USA?
I’ll save you the time. There is none and there are no connections.
It’s a nice thought though that has been around for years. But the reality is, is that China has been lifting its own manufacturing tide and its own revenue tide in amorphous metal while LQMT has been bailing out its most valuable assets, namely it’s knowledgeable Human Resources in amorphous metal, it’s R&D to file new patents, it’s IP to and it’s own domestic manufacturing capacity just to stay afloat.
As far as imaginary mm’s or shorts goes…there is nothing to short here. LQMT is an extremely low liquidity anemic daily trading stock earning meaningless revenues with very little to no communications between quarter’s company. What that means is there realistically aren’t many interested in the stock and the ones who own enough shares to influence its pps are insiders and those executives who left the company. Which in their case would be very detrimental to their own positions and options to gain.
You don’t have to short a stock with no growth, low liquidity and minuscule trading volumes trading near a nickel or a dime that once traded higher. The declining pps does it all by itself based on what has already been posted by myself and many others much more brilliant than I.
LQMT has already proven that touting capacity has not resulted in increasing growth by new contracts.
The meaning of China’s expansion in amorphous metal simply means this: where LQMT has failed China is succeeding. It’s been this way for years now and will continue until LQMT hires executives who know how to operate an amorphous metal company in the USA. That take money. Money they don’t want to spend. It’s the only thing they got going for them right now.
That and the wishful thinking of others who think hope and expectations and maybes and could’s and would’s are a strategy.
A few months ago LQMT renewed a partnership they had with the same company they touted on their website and in a pr from a few years ago about increasing manufacturing capacity.
Have they announced any new renewals for customer orders?
Increasing Capacity to manufacture so far has not corresponded with increasing revenues. In fact the opposite has happened.
Another fact. There are no connections to any other company’s announcements of any project either here in the USA or abroad. If it were to have any significant meaning LQMT would be obligated to file a statement with the SEC.
You see any SEC filings? NO!!!
What is seen is that LQMT is shrinking while others are expanding. LQMT is emptying rooms and cleaning house, while other companies who bought LQMT’s IP are adding rooms and more capacity to ear revenues.
Good luck to all in LQMT.
It’s the way I read LQMT, from the forward commentary minus the actual results. I hope I’m wrong but it looks to me like LQMT is turning out the lights. I’m looking at the recent share price trends and let’s put it this way, the lights are getting dimmer for the PPS and the interest in the stock based on the daily trading volumes.
Like I and many many others have said: we see the great potential for decades, for a decade and for years now. We on the other hand do not see if the contracts or growth in revenues to match that endless potential. What we do see is a company not transparent to match their transparent rhetoric.
It must be cataracts that’s causing this dim view and not what LQMT is doing.
For the Three Months Ended March 31, 2022 and 2021
...."The Company believes that the alloys and the molding technologies it employs may result in components, for many applications, that exhibit: exceptional dimensional control and repeatability that rivals precision machining, excellent corrosion resistance, brilliant surface finish, high strength, high hardness, high elastic limit, alloys that are non-magnetic, and the ability to form complex shapes common to the injection molding of plastics. Interestingly, all of these characteristics are achievable from the molding process, so design engineers often do not have to select specific alloys to achieve one or more of the characteristics as is the case with crystalline materials. The Company believes these advantages could result in Liquidmetal alloys supplanting high-performance alloys, such as titanium and stainless steel, and other incumbent materials in a wide variety of applications. Moreover, the Company believes these advantages could enable the introduction of entirely new products and applications that are not possible or commercially viable with other materials.
To sum up the above 100% forward worded statements:
BELIEVES, MAY RESULT, MOREOVER, BELIEVES, COULD ENABLE.
In essence nothing has changed since inception. Nothing has changed since the 2010 LQMT/Apple loss of CE debacle and nothing has changed since the 2016 LQMT/Eontec loss of USA control debacle. The only changes are those using our IP are earning revenues and we LQMT, are earning bubkas, zilch, dukas to make positive the accumulation of operations expenses not to exceed actual earnings for every 10Q reported and have absolutely no new mega contracts to talk about or discuss or report on as do our direct competitors have been doing and are doing. But now, that we sold off the 2nd largest economical footprint in the world, to earn revenues from China for 405 million shares and 46% of the company. China is no longer our competitor. So going forward. LQMT, IMO, too is putting out more hype of hope and expectations and maybes and could be’s and believes and less on reality when it comes to words not math. For the math and the words do not add up to the actual revenues from actual contracts. They do not even come close.
But contracts? Absolutely bubkas, dukas!!
They say they are focused on revenues too! Well after six years of LI, LI, LI, LI, LI, LI, and more years of TC, it’s time to get a new pair of glasses.
For the past several years since LI took over from Hong Kong/China, restructuring ( transferring manufacturing to China) for manufacturing was and is not the only thing taking place. Getting rid of executive’s are another thing taking place.
Downsizing from Employees knowledgeable in manufacturing to R&D to Executives. Not exactly a way to instill confidence.
The actual actions and actual bottom line annual results and actual rhetoric run contradictory to each other.
Looks to me like the lights are going out.
LQMT may have the cash to survive another year. But it means nothing if they can’t produce a 25% of what Li is producing in China for companies doing business in all parts of the world.
Good luck to all in LQMT.
Is that a light I see at the end of the LQMT tunnel or a distant star that burnt out a long time ago? We will know the answer this year.
TC: “Rest assured that we will keep investors apprised of our business through press releases”
Anyone see the PR FOR THE FIRST QUARTER 10Q.?
Another lie?
Anyone see the PR DEPARTURE for another long time executive?
Another lie?
Or as you say…”What a joke!
IMHO, Their so ashamed. Not even a PR in Business Wire.
How sad…
No wonder the daily trading volumes are so anemic.
How disgraceful. No wonder why new outsiders do not know LQMT exists.
Another week passes and LQMT is down 8.5% from 0.0995 to 0.091 cents on extremely low trading volumes. YTD., LQMT is flat and occasionally going negative for the year.
A quick review of 10Q1. Like past 10Q’s revenues are way to low to be meaningful. Although better than estimated and better than their average historically for a first quarter. There is just so much you can cut in operating costs from employees to justify any savings. Even if executives forfeit their salaries, the revenues, the existing contracts are so meaningless it would not help. Cutting the operating costs is not going to solve their huge marketing and sales problems stalking the company since the LQMT/Apple debacle of 2010.
The part of the quarterly report that needs help badly is in sales, contracts to increase demand for both new parts ordered and new demand for LQMT’s stock. To this end LQMT fails miserably. They need a solid cohesive sales strategy backed up by experience with LQMT’s capacity for amorphous and non amorphous product parts to be manufactured and not novices. In essence IMHO, THEY NEED A NEW PLAN THAT CAN REEL IN CONSISTENT GROWTH, not just a one off.
It shows, it stands out on the marquee in bright lights…sales are crap! Shareholder’s need a million per quarter!!! It’s why trading volumes are anemic and the price will remain dormant floundering in the low pennies from 0.05 to 0.18 created by pops and dips from micro small contracts. Bottom line the fundamentals have not changed. Thus debt from operations continues to accumulate.
For LQMT, its no longer about the potential. Its no longer about any new application theories. The applications for LQMT were always infinite. Nope, for LQMT the ticket remains just a guess. A guess when a mega contract will be landed. A guess when any contracts will be landed. A guess when this will happen is the only thing ever happening and the only reason for a long term roll of the dice.
On the other hand there is only one reason to add a short term position and sell one each time there is a wash rinse and repeat cycle. To make money while playing the long term guessing game. Guessing when LQMT pays off is definitely a reality if you think LQMT is prepared to land a whale. Guessing is a real strategy for a company that talks the big talk, but can’t walk the big walk.
The share price of 0.09 is not an accident. Anemic trading volumes are not an accident. It occurs when the strategy to increase sales are inept and executives are ineffective in resolving a reoccurring problem using the same methods, the same strategies to increase sales.
If teams abroad can do it in China with the same executive who is involved and invested on both sides of the isle. Then there should be no problems for LQMT to do the same on this side of the isle. Not unless there is a huge conflict of interest. Otherwise LQMT does not offer up any other explanations. It’s not the pandemic, its the same material and if its not the Professor, then who the heck is it? As long as the Professor who owns 45% of the companies stock, you can’t blame TC or any of the other employees. Only the one involved and invested on both sides of the isle IMHO, is the common denominator to LQMT’s problems as well as the solution.
Good luck to all in LQMT.
It’s going to be a long long ride. Or maybe not. I guess.
Thank you.
Read the post! Not cherry picking segments! And do those stocks have sales? Do they sell a product? Why not throw in cryptocurrency while you’re at it. Are the micro caps? Yes you can find pharma stocks that are in R&D that sell zilch too.
Why would you or anyone else think it’s ok to file late? It may be necessary. But ok? I think it’s better to file on time. I also think there are important reasons for filling late. Most late fillings have negative connotations.
The bottom line. What I think does not matter one jot, not even a trace of a penny. What LQMT does or does not do is all that matters. A negative 10Q means zip. A positive 10Q means zip. Especially when there is little to zero liquidity, interest and trading volumes daily.
The only thing that will make a difference is a mega contract signed with parts shipped so that the bottom line can be measured to increase the demand for shares. The rest will fall into place by itself from rumors to pumping to drive the pps higher if that event ever takes place.
My posts are just opinions of facts and not my own facts as others often interject. As always my opinions are always worth less than the price of LQMT.
LQMT has dropped 25% since April 18, 2022.
Other markets not so much.
There are no comparable comparisons to make with LQMT and other stocks, since LQMT does not manufacture nor have much to sell. Their history is not stable and has absolutely zero correlation to market gains or losses. They have insufficient sales to be impacted outside of a recession impacting their customers.
LQMT’s 2022 10Q1 is not late yet. They will probably release the report today or tomorrow.
If not they will have to file late. It would be better for all in LQMT if they do not file late and they file within the maximum time permitted, which in this case is Monday, May 16th, 2022.
IMHO, it would best to release a less than stellar report today or tomorrow after the close and a stellar report on a Monday before the close of trading.
Good luck to all in LQMT.
9 times LQMT has filed late it’s 10Q.-Twice-it’s-10K.
The one that sold off 25% of their stock on the pops and bought back in with the 40% to 50% gains on the dips and repeated this three to four times and preparing for a fourth or fifth wash, rinse and repeat cycle. Just buying in @ .0.09 and selling @ .126 = a 40% gain. Doing this four times with 250,000 shares would be enough to put back the 250,000 shares borrowed plus the gains are enough to accumulate another 400,000 shares, giving any investor a total of 1,400,000 shares and a much larger amount to borrow for the next dip/cycle. As much as 650,000 shares.
There are no guarantees for success according to LQMT. It may or may not happen. The odds of it happening are unknown. It can happen at anytime and has nothing to do with the current share price at anytime. As long as LQMT trades the opportunity for success remains the same. As long as LQMT has cash and 3 or 4 customers, it looks like they will be trading.
LQMT pops only with PR’s and higher volumes that usually precede the pop in the share price.
Under the current circumstances of today if LQMT puts out a less than average first quarter report of less than $70,000.00 it’s a good bet that LQMT will be going lower and not higher and can reach the 0.07’s very quickly.
If they don’t announce progress regarding domestic manufacturing or a new contract LQMT can still hit the 0.07’s by July.
The low 0.09’s and the 0.08’s are a good place to begin accumulating shares. The share price had to drop. There was no support for the shares at a dime. New Short term buyers come in at a price where they believe they can sell for a profit. Usually around .07 to .08.
Good luck to you.
At the conclusion of the last three trading weeks leading up to the first quarter’s 10Q, LQMT closed down 13.13% on very low trading volumes, putting LQMT right back to where it started the year on January 3rd, 2022. All of the capital LQMT acquired recently, all of the positive upward momentum of the (recent infrastructure and contracts and partnerships) PR’s, gone, wasted, wiped out. All of the outside hype and near term expectations since January 3rd, trashed, thrown aside and wiped out.
The statistics of the above are a fact. The rest are just my observational opinions. The fact is nothing has really changed with LQMT and their endeavors for success, except the worth of the LQMT portfolio on paper. Nothing fundamentally ever changed to move the share price up except a gamble that TC might be announcing something positive in a positive way leading to solid progress for LQMT’s bottom line. IMHO, it did not happen. Neither did the expectations for better results from the annual 2021 10K come close to fruition.
Hence the beginnings of the ride back down to where LQMT began the year. What ever and who ever accumulated shares, sold off their share’s perhaps for these four possible reasons. The disappointment of LQMT’s annual performance. The reality check and emotional reassessment of what LQMT, might report for this upcoming 10Q. The rise in inflation, global turmoil and it’s impact on all investments and there affects on corporate budget tightening as a whole. The thought of selling some and buying back lower to average down.
All in all, most if not all long terms are holding. And why not? Nothing has changed fundamentally for LQMT. Fundamentally a lot has changed to impact all investments outside of LQMT. This too eventually drags down even a non profitable micro cap like LQMT. Remember what affects the global economy affects LQMT’s major customers too. The rumblings of this mentioned in an earlier post have tumbled the markets as predicted. A recession will drive share prices lower of almost every investment. Mentioned too in an earlier post was for all to rebalance there portfolios to protect against a recession. Stock markets normally react before one hits as they are doing now. Also, we have midterm elections this November to decide politically who controls the house and senate. All of this impacts every investment. LQMT is not an exception.
Without positive news of progress, without new contracts soon LQMT can drift down below 0.06 and 0.05. By today’s trading volume and share price, one can say with certainty long term and short term shareholders are not expecting much for 10Q1.
Let’s see if LQMT can pull the rabbit out of it’s hat. Let’s see if all the dots and dashes and theories are in alignment. It’s the only thing LQMT’s got going for it as far as I know. And everyone knows, that I don’t know much.
Good luck to all in LQMT.
“We are very excited about the purchase of our new corporate office and manufacturing facility. The new facility will allow us to expand our manufacturing capabilities in line with our overall strategy to prepare the Company to be the global leader in amorphous alloy production,” said Professor Lugee Li, Chairman and CEO at LQMT.
When? January 2017. What for? Read it again!
Seven months later…
“The Company has devoted much of 2017 to acquiring and building out its new manufacturing facility. Now that we are here, we are truly excited to share our continuing story as we begin manufacturing operations in our new building. I welcome our partners, shareholders and anyone interested in our technology to come join us in celebration of our accomplishments and to get a glimpse of what the future holds for Liquidmetal,” said Professor Li, Chairman and CEO.
When? August 2017. What for? Read it again!
Two months later…
Liquidmetal welcomed more than 180 investors, customers, and partners to its headquarters in Lake Forest, California. Professor Lugee Li, Chairman and CEO, personally greeted attendees. “I relish the chance to meet our investors,” said Professor Li. “It isn’t something I get to do often.”
On display were Liquidmetal’s three production lines: Medical-grade amorphous metal molding, Industrial-grade amorphous metal molding, and newly-added MIM (Metal Injection Molding).
Presentations were also given by representatives from certified partners ENGEL and Materion,
“It was a pleasure to be able to discuss our business directly with customers and investors,” said Professor Li. “They had many excellent questions.”
When? October 2017. What for? Read it again!
Two years & nine months later….
Professor Lugee Li, the Company’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, stated, “Liquidmetal Technologies is a world leader in developing and manufacturing amorphous metal applications. Our Restructuring Plan allows the Company to focus on commercializing its unique technology and developing its markets while closely managing costs. This is a critical step toward pursuing growth and profitability."
Liquidmetal® Technologies, Inc. (OTCQB: LQMT) (the “Company”), a leading developer of amorphous alloys and composites, today announced that, as a result of its comprehensive strategy review,
The Restructuring Plan is the culmination of the Company’s recent reevaluation of its current and forecasted business outlook and resulting decision to shift the Company’s focus from manufacturing operations at its Lake Forest, California, facility to the outsourced manufacture of the Company’s products.
When? July 2019. What for? Read it again!
Two years later…
Liquidmetal® Technologies, Inc. (OTCQB: LQMT) (the “Company”), a leading developer of amorphous alloys and composites, today announced that Professor Lugee Li, Chairman of the Company’s Board of Directors, has resigned as CEO and President. Citing the company’s readiness for the next phase of its development.
Professor Lugee Li, the Company’s Chairman stated, “Liquidmetal Technologies remains a world leader in developing and manufacturing amorphous metal applications. Although I am stepping down from the CEO role, as Chairman I am fully committed to accomplishing the vision of the Company. I have full confidence that Tony and his executive team are capable of taking the Company to the next phase of development: bringing amorphous alloy technology more fully into the marketplace.”
“I thank the Board of Directors for this opportunity to fulfill what I have known all along, throughout my many years with the Company,” Mr. Chung stated. “Our technology is revolutionary and unmatched by any other. I will continue on the trajectory set by Professor Li and will pursue every opportunity toward achieving our goal of being at the forefront of amorphous alloy technology, building our customer base, and increasing shareholder value.”
“Professor Li has provided valuable direction over the past half decade, and we would not be where we are now without him,” Mr. Bresnick stated. “Today, Liquidmetal has a strong, lean team of dedicated experts. I am grateful for the opportunity to serve as their President, and together, I believe we will make Liquidmetal a success.”
When? July 2021. What for? Read it again!
What’s this all about? When reading the directions the company was headed towards for growth ever since the shut down of domestic manufacturing in LF CA., and publicly stated in 2018, LQMT concentrated all of it’s growth in Asia and where customers are much closer to it’s manufacturing source in China.
That is and was the next phase.
As far as domestic manufacturing goes for LQMT. It takes less than a year to start up and begin manufacturing in a new facility. In fact LQMT did this with the purchase and completion of it’s new facility in LF CA., back in 2017. They were about to expand this facility in 2018. At that point Professor Li, did not share the same views or necessity for LQMT to invest more money in a facility where there was a insufficient pipeline of customers. Hence the restructuring and outsourcing of manufacturing to China where all parts can be made until LQMT was ready for domestic expansion if and whenever they have a sufficient contract or contracts necessitating the higher costs for manufacturing or exchange much of the profits for outsourcing domestic manufacturing.
So far the next phase has not produced any significant contracts abroad in LQMT’s footprint. When you read the rhetoric from Professor li, it’s easy to interpret the timeframe to be soon or the next phase to be a fact.
There are many arguments that can be factually made that Professor li, has made many mistakes and missteps with bringing about success to LQMT. From the OH, to the relationships with Engel and Materion to the executive changes. There too are arguments that can be made for the attempt to streamline costs at LF CA.
Although annual revenue growth is not consistent. Nevertheless LQMT, has had growth in revenues from 2016. Not anywhere near the point of success or a hint of success.
LQMT is not a new company. It was first incorporated over 35 years ago and reincorporated about 20 years ago. It has not evolved. In fact it has depleted many of it’s most valuable assets beginning with it’s knowledgeable experts in the field of amorphous metal to the selling and sharing of it’s IP with partners and the restrictions on use in the area of CE to survive.
The loss of CE use is not the end to LQMT’s manufacturing of parts that may be exempt from the agreements involving CE parts. And I’m not talking about amorphous metal formula which must be transferred to Apple via the structure set up in the agreements. To understand this, carefully read the reasons for the trademarks and use of parts legal definitions. Another reason why LQMT silenced itself.
There is absolutely no timeline for LQMT to and a significant contract of value the size that would support a dollar a share. Imho, It’s either ludicrous or ridiculous strategy to say if LQMT does not land a whale by X amount of time, that it is time to sell. Knowing LQMT’s managerial history and it’s sales history anytime is the right time to invest in LQMT or to divest from LQMT. There are no timeframes for success if anyone cares to believe in what LQMT states.
On the other hand there are plenty of timeframes from decisions based on positive or negative emotions. For me the reality is simply this. LQMT is a extremely low interest, low trading volume, low penny stock high risk dice roll. Always has been and will be until higher value contracts are signed and parts shipped.
Good luck to all in LQMT.
Another week passes and LQMT is down 3.4% from 0.103 to 0.0995 cents on extremely low trading volumes.
The last time LQMT closed below a dime was on March 1st, 2022. The last time LQMT ended the week below a dime was on January 13, 2022. The positive from all of this LQMT is up 10.6% YTD. The negative; LQMT has declined in price from its peak of 0.174, 42.7% in 28 business days since then. Not a exactly a picture for success for any shareholder to see just before a first quarter 10Q is about to be released sometime next week.
Is it a shock? If you have not been reading my posts, and commentary of others here, absolutely! For those who have read my predictions for the share price’s decline before this 10Q. Not at all. As stated in a recent post: the anemic daily trading volumes cannot sustain support for LQMT above a dime and it is headed towards the .08’s soon, unless LQMT can pull a rabbit out of it’s hat with this 10Q or with the release of a positive PR.
At one point LQMT was up 94% YTD. All on expectations & hope and possible manipulation by the Money Market Makers trying to make a profit off of buyers and sellers. The smart investor would have noted as high listed dozens of times; None of the gains in share price we’re due to any trading volumes beyond anemic ones. Low trading volumes cannot sustain a pop in the PPS no matter what the news is.
Thus another repeat of the wash, rinse, and repeat cycle can take hold. It begins with accumulating some at 0.10 then in the 0.09’s and then lower if the pps drops further. At that point you wait patiently for the next pop in the PPS to sell or hold that short term position based on the news. So far none of the pops in the pps has resulted in a sustained upward price trend to reverse LQMT’s long term decline in the PPS since 2017. That’s the year LQMT peaked to 0.44 cents on the beginning of the OH debacle, the Apple rumors and the same year LQMT’s present interim CEO sold his options in LQMT and cashed out.
Instead of choosing Bryce Vance to become the interim ceo, Professor li chose the executive who received the leased amount of shareholder’s support during the last proxy vote. A person who seems to be the least trusted or supported by that vote. Says a lot about Professor li. So does the decision to close down all manufacturing of parts for sale by LQMT, thus IMO, forcing LQMT to buy their parts from China. Is it any wonder why it’s talking more than two years and counting to find another high volume domestic parts manufacturer here in the USA. Or perhaps, maybe LQMT is not looking at all to solve this major problem so that LQMT can secure more contracts. Who knows? Has LQMT given any updates on any progress towards this endeavor in a PR or new executive blog? None that I can find. Anyone else?
Getting back to the price trend and the anemic trading volumes. As long as LQMT’s fundamentals have not changed and as long as they do not change, both are headed south of the border paused briefly by a PR.
From past history, one can expect LQMT to announce a contract without any specific time frame and the value of that contract can be anywhere from a jellyfish to a whale.
In other words and in the spirit of what LQMT stated in their recent 10k; The occurrence of profitability from a contract can be a ONE-OFF. There are no guarantees whatsoever, they can be expected to continue to sustain profitability. Not exactly a sign of confidence by the executives. But it is a very truthful statement so that no one is mislead.
The difference between all hype and reality can be found in the LQMT 10k. Refer to it the next time you see any hype and it will always bring you back down to reality and along with it the share price.
IMHO, 0.174 cents may have been an accident. Not 0.0995
Good luck to all in LQMT.
My opinions are always worth less than the price of LQMT.
From 2017 regarding a strategy that goes back a long long time.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/china-u-s-m-a-its-a-one-way-street/#textChina20also20likes20AmericaE28099s20lucrative20agricultural20market2C20andof20a20foothold20there2C20except20with20joint20ventures
How much of the United States does China really own? - Fox News
The involvement of China and the CCP are a fact not a theory and it’s all legal. Control of LQMT by China is not illegal and not a theory. It’s a fact. Approximately 46% of LQMT stock are controlled by a Chinese investor.
It should be obvious to all whether anyone loves this man or despises this man that his investment in LQMT’s IP and use of the name, trademarks and patents of Liquidmetal technologies inc. are showing positive claims for earning revenues off of amorphous metal parts in China but not anywhere as much in the USA, IMHO. It’s a fact and not a theory if you believe what is claimed. And there must be some truth to it. After all Professor li has not disappeared.
It’s obvious too, that Professor li does not or may not be able to invest more in LQMT to fast forward it’s success. And it should be also obvious so far that none of the executives here are able to do the same and it’s taking a much longer time.
The very low anemic trading volumes, revenues and share price of trading in the low pennies are also a fact and not an accident.
There are 3 or 4 new sales personnel at LQMT.
WHERE ARE THE CONTRACTS!!! WHERE IS THE PROGRESS FOR ANOTHER BACKUP MANUFACTURER!!!
ZZZZZzzzzzz.
Good luck to all in LQMT.
Some of today’s stat’s. 39 trades all day. Average shares per trade 5,780 shares. Average price per share 0.102 cents. Average dollar value per trade $589.54.
Is this what the professor meant when he handed over the puppet reins to TC and said take it to the next step the next level the next phase?
I sure as heck hope not. How despicable to have this kind of outsider interest in the company. How disgraceful not to update shareholders on any progress over 100 days after the last 8K. And over two years in search of another high volume parts domestic manufacturer. One can only guess based on the LQMT 10K sales strategy, that LQMT has found a customer with deep pockets willing to manufacture the parts themselves. Of course this sales strategy would greatly reduce any profit.
It’s been about a year with TC and what have the shareholders received from TC by way of growth in revenues and shareholder value? Absolutely nothing, zero zip zilch bubkas donkey dust. In fact even less than that and that’s a fact!!!
Without any progress updates of all operations that can be shared as already mentioned and the trade shows and without any new contracts announced. One can only presume nothing is being done to advance any progress.
Shareholders should not have to guess and hope for the best. Is it any wonder why new outsiders stay away and the daily trading volumes continue to be anemic. Trading in the low pennies and headed south is not an accident and I know it’s not a surprise either. Just stand still, do nothing, and nothing happens. And yet some expect a lot.
There seems to be a huge disconnect between what LQMT states and what some endlessly expect year after year. I should know. For many years I too expected the same. And then a light bulb went off when I read Einstein’s theory for insanity.
When someone tells you they are on their way, you can expect them to arrive. When you tell someone you are on your way, they too can expect you to arrive. But when LQMT tells you they expect and use other words alike. History and sanity should have thought everyone in LQMT a lesson. Don’t be surprised when they never show up, don’t be disappointed with LQMT when they never arrive. Be surprised when they do.
No matter how many theories that are out there over the years or new ones to come. It should be no surprise no disappointment when LQMT does not arrive with the expected and other forward worded anticipations.
It will only happen with a contract. There are two certain take always from the 10K that I have read so far. One is that LQMT can nail a whale. The other certainty is don’t expect them to do it again. Don’t expect consistent growth/profit. There is not one iota for this to happen in any timeframe.
You need not have to be a shareholder to know this. It’s in the 10K. Read it!
More on the LQMT 10K to follow…
Good luck to all in LQMT.
Is that why LQMT has no new contracts, no growth to increase shareholder’s value?
See the charts from 2016 to 2022 of LQMT. See the forest charts of the average volumes from 2016 to 2022. Aside from those in the LQMT forest, who else knows?????
Out of the billions around the world approximately 216.
Change of name?
https://en.houjin.co/company/4040001025154
Hmmm?
No previous affiliation?
Hmmm?
So let me see. Do I have this right.
LQMT is little known here and abroad and that’s according to LQMT. Yet a group of unknown investors in Japan having no prior affiliation with LQMT, just formed a new company to purchase golf clubs made with the LQMT IP to license in LQMT’s footprint?
Perhaps the www info is not accurate. But if it is, then there’s more to this renamed company which was unregistered at the time negotiations were going on. Hmmm?
When going over the 10k, I don’t focus on the obvious numbers of good or bad those are self explanatory. It’s the little things I look at to uncover anything towards success. The failures like the math are too obvious and not worth wasting much time on.
Good luck to you and all in LQMT.
The plot thickens….
https://en.houjin.co/company/4040001025154
Yep, I got that, what I’m looking at is this part:
“a new Japanese company formed by investors in Japan who have not been previously affiliated with the Company or LMG located in Chiba, Japan ”
No track record, no history, no sales history, no marketing, etc.,
Formed by a group of investors???
Who invests in a known product that has proven to fail for the exact same purpose and use that it failed for without any known marketing skills or private corporate structure. And why are the units and cost structure not broken down by LQMT just for the manufacture of these parts? Too many unknowns sometimes more often than not raises suspicion or at least should raise some interest.
But somehow the folks are blinded by the green yet to ever be seen.
Any red flags here? Anyone?…
From my review of the LQMT 10K
“On January 13, 2022, the Company’s majority-owned Liquidmetal Golf subsidiary (“LMG”) entered into a Sublicense Agreement with Amorphous Technologies Japan, Inc. (“ATJ”), a new Japanese company formed by investors in Japan who have not been previously affiliated with the Company or LMG located in Chiba, Japan (the “LMG License Agreement”).”
Anyone? Yes? No? Maybe? Just asking, not implying.
More to follow….
Good luck to all in LQMT.
Imo, great news is when you see a contract of any magnitude involving LQMT, covering what you copy and paste about and not from how another company is prospering off of LQMT’s IP, for five years now without a single penny of those part sales being received outside of the $63.4 million received six years ago for the IP and 405 million shares of share dilution and control of the company with those voting shares.
Now I know you think what you posted is great news. To me it’s interesting news. It’s great if you can post the same info with an LQMT contract not some ambiguous one from abroad.
Every week all if interested can find info like this. But no one has yet to ever find a LQMT contract with any of these CE products.
Thank you once again for commenting on very important issues and events recently affecting LQMT. One would have thought the post would have received a minimum of 50 responses pro or con. Yours was the only one. Just shows you how little interest there is not from those who don’t own shares, but from those who do. The post raises some important questions. From a business point of view to an ethical one. Both have the potential to be true. From reducing costs to operate and grow to reducing a means to continue to grow and operate.
It’s not an accident why LQMT trades on anemic volumes and in the extreme low pennies beneath a dollar a share for over 20 years. Either the material is no good and or the company is poorly marketed and operated by the executives of LQMT.
If we believe what others have positively found around the www and posted about the success of amorphous metal abroad by the same former ceo and now chairman of the board li of LQMT. Then we at least know it’s not the material that is at fault.
Then again there is this conundrum; why is it that even abroad there are no whale contracts outside of CE and only in CE? And over here in the USA there are no whale contracts at all with or without CE? Hmmmmm?
Good luck to you.
Oh yeah, I know….patience :). :). :).
Well, you would have at leased thought everyone here graduated high school. Wish I was in my 30’s again with the acquired knowledge of decades later.
In general many who are younger reject the logic or wisdom of people much older. It happens when people think they learned enough, think they know enough and leave school and stop reading.
It’s funny though. I don’t recall any of my teachers being younger than me when I was growing up K1 through K12.
I believe all learn most of their education from older people.
The only time this age reversal happens is when one never learned common sense, manners, intuition, and basic reading skills. Then when they go back to school or a university, there is a very good chance better than 50% that their educators will be younger. Not saying young people are not smart.
But still, I don’t recall any schools or college campuses offering classes in common sense to help them do everything in life from raising a family to investing in a company like Liquidmetal technologies inc.
One can learn almost as much common sense from a third grader just as easily as from a college professor and without any bias.
Yep. I’m still waiting for LQMT lesson #1. Tic tic tic tic tic tic.
Good luck to you.
LQMT looks like they could be headed towards the 0.08’s soon if they don’t pull a rabbit out of their hat.
Very soon.
There does not seem to be much support by way of demand and outside interest to support trading at the dime levels.
Good luck to all in LQMT.
As predicted this is one of those odd times when the share price drifts down and not up before a 10Q.
A contract with Either one of these non consumer electronic companies will put LQMT over $1.00 a share.
ConMed & Depuy Synthes. The latter had unfavorable views of using amorphous metal specifically Liquidmetal back in the earlier days of LQMT. Have not found any news if they changed these views. As for ConMed, so far they have chosen other materials for their products since LQMT first made prototypes for them a few years ago. Neither one are talking. Could be due to the NDA’s they may have signed.
Well since LQMT sold it’s soul in 2010 to Apple, all every investor has to do now is wait for LQMT to become a trillion dollar company.
And that is so simple and easy. All they have to do is have the share price hit $1.10. Ding ding ding and LQMT is worth over a trillion dollars. :)
About predictions. That prediction is still in play. How about those predictions of a March 2022 explosive report and CC AND A .50 cent to a $1.00 share price. I guess someone still thinks March 2022 is still in play?
It’s over. What happened? Ever hear an apology? An apology for being so dead wrong? Intentionally dead wrong?
Personally I don’t think the pumper ever believed their own hype. I think pumpers thought they could pump LQMT out of the repair shop down in the railroad yard where LQMT has been stuck for five years now. Pumpers hoping for a miracle. No matter what the truth from the LQMT data was telling daily. Even the share price rising pennies, was always just on very low trading volumes. That alone would have obviously told anyone who could discern the warnings from this fact alone, that nothing big was happening in March 2022.
And if nothing happens after Q2 & Q3, then yes all can expect LQMT to drop below a buy in price of 0.06.
Not just 0.06 or 0.05 either. And that’s as close to a guarantee as you are going to get unless there are global changes for the better.
Buying at any price lower than the current daily price does not make LQMT a great stock to own. And LQMT can back that up with over twenty years of experience.
Who the heck invests in an investor whose only claimed factual positive is look at me , look what price I paid for a company that has gone nowhere regarding success in over twenty years. How ridiculous, how laughable.
How about LQMT is a great stock to invest in because they might possibly land a whale and that’s it. It’s in the 10K if anyone cares to read it.
Good luck to all in LQMT.
Inflation + recession = global depression.
And if LQMT collects that $147 thousand from accounts receivable with the 1st quarter’s estimated revenues then they can conceivably report $217 to $227 thousand.
Keep in mind we don’t know the exact size of the golf club contract nor do we know when any of those parts were shipped or when sales of the clubs are recorded or who is recording the sales and at what price or who is paying up front the manufacturer’s costs. LQMT negotiated for yihao to contract for the parts to fulfill the contract. It’s all in the 8K. But who’s fronting the costs to manufacture? Is it Japan or LQMT USA?
How can LQMT bill for a product not yet shipped. Perhaps LQMT has an agreement of credit from yihao since li oversees both companies. Q1 or Q2 reporting can be very tricky and misleading. Thus an increase in revenues over the next two quarters may require careful DD.
Bottom line I think the revenues from parts with all of the above subtracted will be around $75,000.00.
One thing is for sure. It’s not a whale. So expect the usual pop or drop after the 10Q.
And the 05’s and the 04’s when inflation meets the recession and the global markets enter into a depression.
When they announce contracts to exceed operating costs. The 10Q for Q1 is due anywhere from today to Friday the 13th. Usually LQMT releases the report during the first week in May.
I estimate between $70 and $80 thousand for the quarter.
The first part sounds right about LQMT collecting $ from licensing fees/royalties. But the second part depends on the agreements signed. Was the three year agreement exclusive or non exclusive? And why would a well run business waste money on a product that has not been proven yet to increase or decrease their sales? Does not some of the large mega cap companies do the same when deciding what materials and or bells and whistles to incorporate? Apple, AT&T and Verizon are a few that use this business strategy. They don’t innovate. They wait for the competition to try out the new technologies and then they iron out the kinks and incorporate what works. In essence they let the competition do their R&D for them. They don’t mind waiting a few years. Saves them a lot of money.
Also the golf contract is not engraved in stone. Either way no matter who incorporates amorphous metal into the golf club it will still take time to see if there is a big demand for them.
I have to believe that in time LQMT will contract with the companies that place the larger orders and separate payment for exclusivity.