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And once again, idiots reign supreme. Actually thinking they can trade this like a normal stock and it needs to back up with a market that is concerned about the Yen carry trade which has nothing to do with our economy or our stocks whatsoever. What even makes it worse is people selling a stock in the hottest sector out there right now. But if it were not for idiots we wouldn't have stars that shine above them nor would we have such bargains to make huge profits on. Welcome to the looney bin. Twinkle Twinkle!
Well these are orders of size. They should clear all orders in between. Put in way above ask to assure a fill and further bid support. Somebody making usre other orders get filled first. Or certainly telegraphing a shortage of shares.
Orders not filling again. Large orders in to buy this AM and no shares being filled well above the ask. This has been a problem for awhile now. Seems today is the worst.
Absolutely. Next time play the 89. All great players buy the 89 on any stock that has had a big break out. Plug it in.
Likely it won't matter. You have several technical confirmations plus a market that is ready to reward great results. I know nobody wants to believe it or cannot see it but all this action under $4.00 really is just prolonging the inevitable IMO.
I disagree Raw. I think people here are smart enough not to tout other stocks. But it is very important to know how the sector is performing. Now that HANS has been tabled for months you can see a rotation in the sector and new growth is being rewarded. Moves like JSDA has had do offer upside bias to DKAM and can give others a glimpse on what DKAM is capable of since it wasn't long ago that JSDA was 75 cents.
See that wall at 2.60??
Phantoms
Oh I understand. My point is that this market is very fickle in the way it rewards stocks with huge moves for posting $6 mil in revenues and a return to profit while it ignores the stocks posting $6 mil in revenues and 2000% increases in revenues. JSDA just continues to rocket upward and the growth rate there isn't even close to DKAM. I guess common sense went out the window when some idiot said two companies that aren't being bought out should be 50% higher if they were. So both stocks took off to the upside without anybody wanting to buy either company. Just give me a microphone for about 5 minutes!
Use this as a basis for comparison. CIMT posted $6 million in revenues today and swung back to profit. The stock is up 130%.
Those numbers sound awfully familiar!
Just pick up the phone and call Christine. She is nice. She won't bite. Find out their plans for High Point. The ties and cufflinks are somewhat tacky but the jackets and golf stuff works. With Trump's new line of clubs I would imagine the golf gear will do well.
Goes to show the mentality of people out there that have the ability to own a computer much less control a computer. LJPC losing more money each quarter than DKAM could ever hope to lose yet the stock walks from under $3 up to $8 in two days on no news. DKAM with the greatest news in the world and all people want to do is stare and make up reasons why it won't do this or that.
I don't care what the stock or what the sector. If you want to move a stock you can move a stock no matter what. Good thing is when it happens here most will be out of it and will be shocked at what unfolds that they miss.
In fact, alot of MMs have pulled up as if they are expecting a big run up. Kind of predicates itself.
Just a little bit needed. If it pops $2.55 she's a goner.
Sounds great Q. I think somebody else is from NC? Tina Marie maybe? And somebody is in Charlotte. I sent a note to Drinks to find out what is involved to get a special pass to get in.
I checked and verified it. Trump Vodka will be at the International Home Furniture Market in High Point, NC on March 26. My guess is Trump Vodka will be served and promoted at several events within the event to coordinate with the unveiling of The Trump Home Furniture Collection, Trump Decorative Rugs by Miresco, and Trump Lighting by Elk Lighting. Since it is an International Show any guesses on Hubert Millet being in attendance and putting on the schmooze?
Trump unveils Trump Home. The article is focused on his furniture launch (Trump Vodka will be featured at the High Point NC Furniture Market), but of note is that Trump Vodka is the hook, not real estate, fashion, mortgage, etc. He disses Martha and now he follows her? No matter. The Trump Vodka logoed picture is being used in all initial print media. Hey Carolina folks? Sad that Trump isn't scheduled until 5/1 for release. But I would just bet there will be some Trump flowing in High Point in 2 weeks and most likely a visit from The Donald. I'd say East Coasters need to plan a road trip!
The Donald Launches Furniture Collections
Donald Trump, shown with his branded Trump vodka, is now rolling out a furniture line
March 07, 2007
By Sandra O'Loughlin
NEW YORK -- If you thought you'd never hear the words "Donald Trump" and "affordable" in the same sentence, well, you're wrong. The real estate mogul has partnered with Lexington Home Brands to create Trump Home. The brand, which consists of two furniture collections, will debut during the High Point (N.C.) furniture market, which runs Mar. 26 - Apr. 1.
Describing the collections as "a beautiful group of luxurious furniture at an affordable price," Trump said in a statement that he personally signed off on all the designs. "I wouldn't have it any other way because my name is on the furniture."
The Westchester collection is inspired by the mansions and historic properties restored by Trump. Central Park reflects Trump's New York roots and his urban real estate properties.
Besides the furniture, over the past 30 years, Trump has lent his name to vodka, menswear and accessories.
Lexington Home Brands, Thomasville, N.C., markets and manufactures furniture for Tommy Bahama Home, Liz Claiborne Home, Nautica, Palmer Home, Bob Timberlake and Woolrich. The privately held company is an affiliate of Boca Raton, Fla.-based Sun Capital Partners.
http://www.brandweek.com/bw/news/apparelretail/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003554529
Olico?? You don't even want to get me started. You ready to go there? I don't think so!
212.943.9055 / 800.533.8987 9 March 2007
OPCO INK
OPCO Events
· Capitol Bancorp (CBC) in Des Moines 3/12
· Noble Energy (NBL) Group Dinner in New York 3/13
· Signature Bank (SBNY) Group Lunch in NY 3/13
· Semiconductor Field Trip - 3/13-3/14 in Silicon Valley, CA: MRVL SIRF TRID NETL GNSS LSIG SMOD ZRAN SUPX AMCC ATHR MOSY SYNA
MORNING SECTOR SUMMARY
Technology
EVENTS:
· ULTI at Pacific Crest’s 2nd Annual On-Demand Conference.
UPGRADES/DOWNGRADES:
· LTXX upped to a Buy from Hold, Stifel, 9.00 P/T
· TXN, upped to Mkt Outperform from Mkt Perform, JPM Securities, 36.00 P/T
EARNINGS:
· Pre-Opening: SKIL
NEWS HEADLINES:
· Google Chief, tussling with copyrights, says media companies need YouTube.
· Royal Philips plans to sell portion of its TSMC holding in `near future'.
· National Semiconductor profit falls less than estimated; shares advance.
· Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi to partner on business PCs in Japan.
Defense
Today's Headlines:
· ATK - Alliant Techsystems files to register $300M in convertible notes previously sold in private transactions on 6-Sep (86.91)
Registration also covers stock issuable upon conversion, including the rights attached to the stock.
· BAE systems (BA.LN) & VT Group (VTG.LN) bidding for £2B order from Saudi Arabia -Independent
Earnings:
· AVAV - AeroVironment reports Q3 EPS $0.57 and is unclear if comparable to Reuters consensus $0.25 (21.43)
· GLS - Genesis Lease reports Q4 revenues of $41.6M vs Reuters $37.0M. (24.85)
Results include 13 days of operations from the completion of its IPO on 19-Dec-06 through 31-Dec-06, as well as the results of its predecessor entity for the period from 01-Oct-06 through 18-Dec-06.
· EAD.FP - EADS reports Q4 EBIT (€1.04B) vs Bloomberg consensus (€0.89B) (23.69)
Restaurants/Consumer Products
Up/Downgrades:
· BRINKER INTERNATIONAL INC. (EAT) - Raised to `BUY' from `NEUTRAL' at UBS
· CHEESECAKE FACTORY (CAKE) - Cut to `UNDERWEIGHT' at PRUDENTIAL
· JONES SODA CO. (JDSA) - Raised to `BUY' at Stifel Nicolaus
Today’s Headlines:
· APPLEBEE’S INTL (APPB) - Company announces that negotiations with activist hedge fund Breeden Capital have failed to produce an agreement after Breeden rejected the company's offer of two board seats. Breeden Capital, a 5% shareholder, is seeking four seats on the Applebee's board of directors.
· LIFETIME BRANDS, INC (LCUT) - Announced today that it has entered into a letter of intent with respect to the acquisition by Lifetime of up to a 29.9% interest in Ekco, S.A.B. in exchange for a capital infusion into Ekco. Lifetime will provide Ekco with product development and other services to help Ekco accelerate its growth. In addition, Lifetime and Ekco will propose to enter into cross-licensing arrangements pursuant to which Ekco will license the Vasconia(R) brand to Lifetime and Lifetime will license certain of its brands to Ekco. Ekco will provide Lifetime with consumer and professional cookware manufactured in Ekco's plants for sale in the U.S.
· THE PROCTER & GAMBLE (PG) - Confirmed previously announced sales and earnings guidance
For the January to March quarter of fiscal year 2006/07, the company continues to expect sales growth for the quarter of seven percent to nine percent, organic sales growth in line with previous guidance and diluted earnings per share of $0.72 to $0.74. In addition, P&G announced that the release date of final results for the January to March quarter is scheduled for May 1, 2007.
· VICORP RESTAURANTS (VRES) - 1Q Comp Restaurant Sales Down 4%. VICORP Restaurants 1Q Loss $1.08M
· DRINKS AMERICAS HOLDINGS, LTD (DKAM) - Announced today that Hubert Millet has been elected to its Board of Directors.
All I'm going to say about what they said. You can thank Olico for that.
Ouch! Correct. Have to remember to compare YOY and QOQ plus Q last.
Seeing this article, you know we have a huge winner and nobody but us knows it! Check out the valuations on JSDA. Also check what its sales were. Same train just pulled into our station.
http://www.smartmoney.com/undertheradar/index.cfm?story=20070301
In fact, it happened last quarter. They started loading up a couple days before the filing was released on the 210% increase in sales. Like they will just ignore 10 times those sales or sell into it. OK maybe I missed something. Stocks fly on news like this. They don't get "dumped into".
They don't know anything yet. These are the guys that hang out looking for filings to play off of up or down. Very lucrative business! Kind of like the same crowd that always knows early which stocks are going to be in the IBD top 10. They don't care where it was. They just want to run the news for big profit.
Well look for the run to start Monday. These market makers and hedges always get wind of a filing coming before all of us. They will come in and buy up the stock before the actual news hits.
Well in the case with all the other insiders, that may be the case. But he will probably follow suit with all the other insiders. Buy shares that are filed. Get shares that are awarded, and then have all your family members buy twice as many on the open market. It's just the way things are done.
Plus I can tell you this for a fact. he will be buying a substantial number of shares in the company. This guy getting a pretty good deal too since these 144 sellers are content to give their shares away so cheap. So you definitely have an inside buyer in the crowd, and Millet is a TRUE INSIDER. None of those 144 sellers were insiders.
Correct Billy. Oppenheimer who doesn't even follow DKAM is circulating a note this morning that he has jumped on board DKAM. Just watch. It won't tkae long for somebody to figure this one out. Then the 1-2-3 punch:
1. Board member
2. Earnings
3. Buy rating
This is no longer an OTC stock. Welcome to FRPT land!
Sorry Brig! Didn't see your post. Great minds think alike! I'll go get somebody to check mine!
I remember JSDA under a buck. Losing money and couldn't find a pot to pee in. Then the company reinvented itself. Gradually went from negative to positive earnings. Good top line growth. Now the stock is over $16.
Knock, knock!!! Hello? Sound familiar?
I actually posted that incorrectly. I meant to say they have the required Independent Directors.
(c) Independent Directors
(1) A majority of the board of directors must be comprised of independent directors as defined in Rule 4200. The company must disclose in its annual proxy (or, if the issuer does not file a proxy, in its Form 10-K or 20-F) those directors that the board of directors has determined to be independent under Rule 4200.
Drinks Americas Holdings, Ltd. (OTCBB: DKAM), a leading developer and marketer of premium beverages associated with renowned icons, announced today that Hubert Millet has been elected to its Board of Directors. An international senior executive with over 40 years of experience in consumer products, Mr. Millet spent over 20 years in senior management positions in the beverage industry, where he served as President of Seagram's Global Brands Division and Chief Executive Officer of the Cointreau Group. Mr. Millet is currently a board member of Hermes USA, a prestigious leather goods, fashion and perfume company based in Paris, France. "We are very excited to have Hubert Millet join our Board of Directors," commented J. Patrick Kenny, President and Chief Executive Officer of Drinks Americas. "He adds depth and further expands our team. With over 20 years experience in the beverage industry, Hubert brings a wealth of expertise and invaluable insight into the development and marketing of beverage brands on a global scale. With the growing success of Trump Super Premium Vodka, combined with several products in development, Hubert's appointment reflects our commitment to becoming one of the fastest growing beverage companies in the world." Mr. Millet said, "I am thrilled to join Drinks Americas' Board of Directors and work with their superb management team. With the Company's unique strategy that combines premium beverages with renowned icons, Drinks Americas is well positioned to become a global company. I look forward to contributing by leveraging my expertise and international relationships for the Company's product development, distribution and marketing plans to maximize the Company's international growth opportunities." A native of France, Hubert Millet is an international consultant and an adviser to the French government on foreign trade. Mr. Millet was President of Seagram's Global Brands Division based in Paris. He also served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Seagram's Mumm Martell Group. During this time, he was Chairman of Barton & Guestier SA and Herve Leger, and board member of Martell Cognac, G.H. Mumm, Perrier-Jouet and Tropicana Europe. Mr. Millet was also President and Chief Executive Officer of the Cointreau Group. He is currently a board member of Hermes USA. A graduate of the University of Paris, he received four major French decorations, including Officer of National Order of Merit and Officer of the Legion of Honor. Mr. Millet resides in Hilton Head, South Carolina.
Great! Millet means Trump going global. It also means we have the required number of "directors" to get listed on a major exchange. We have a new CFO. We're eliminating the debt off the balance sheet. All that is left now is to get the stock over $5.00 for a bit and we're good to go.
Don't know if it is legal but we see it all the time. Just passing along the musings of one who has benifitted greatly from such goings on. The list is endless.
Billy C! Props to you man. That is awesome when not only you can enjoy the success of the product but your customers can say they approve of your decision and confirm it every day of every week. We can say when we drink the Vodka it is an easy sell and it is better than this product or that one. Your customers prove it every day.
With over 35000 liquor stores in this country and over 300000 liquor price points, one and a half cases per week is huge. One month does not even make a dent in what this company is capable of. In fact, I remember when I saw Monster energy drink about 10 years ago and remember laughing thinking it was a fad. I saw the stock price at about $2 and thought it would be a waste to even think it had a chance of doing anything. Nope it was more important to chase those dot coms going out of business. Of course Monster did well going to over $400 a share and is still here. SoBe another supposed fad was sold to Pepsi for $360 million. What a bargain as it has grown to a multi billion dollar business. Most know Grey Goose with its 17000 first year case sales. Trump did that in 3 weeks. Grey Goose took over two years to hit 100000 cases. Trump will do it in less than 1/3 the time. Grey Goose sold out to Bacardi for $2.3 billion. Absolut sold out for $5.7 billion.
But this is the part where we lose everybody. The instant we mention what all these other companies have done and DKAM is about to do the same thing, you get this blank stare. "What you mean?" Nobody ever mentions all the hurdles these other companies had to jump through to get where they are from start up to final buyout. And then we find, while the numbers were big dollars, 5 years later they pale in comparison to where they were going. Everyone looks at you like you're speaking a foreign language. Sidney Frank, the originator of grey Goose started it out of his garage and borrowed money from everybody! You tell them Trump is the fastest Vodka launch in history. They say, "Hush! I'm too busy worrying about this syrup company selling 35000 shares to be concerned with such things." You tell them Trump is currently the target of a buyout by a major foreign interest that alone is willing to pay $3 a share just for the Newmans Own name as their entry into the soft drink arena and take to a level like Monster. The name that only accounts for a small fraction of Drinks' business. They say, "Quiet! I can't think right now. You're confusing me!!!
I'm too consumed with staring at which market makers are working the bid and ask." You tell them the company is about to post their finest earnings report in company history blowing away just last quarter, absolutely annihilating last year, and as soon as it hits, it will be old news because they are working on an even better quarter right now. It will be the only company out of 8000 publicly traded companies to post this large of sales growth this quarter. They look you square in the eye and tell you, "Well another BS fluff PR. Is this all this company has got? This stock won't be a buy until the MACD crosses over and we get the 5th wave down of the Elliot wave to cross over the current trendline with volume. And only then if the current lunar phase confirms the out of market prints with a match of the corellary volume of the last phase higher with volume. Did you say sumpin?"
Yes, we have missed the boat in a big way. Billy, thank you for reminding us what is most important. We've been spending our time trying to educate everyone on why this is such a great thing. I completely forgot you have to turn on their computers for them, log on to their broker page, and push the buy button for them. Then we have to teach them how to hunt, find food, seek shelter, and build fires. It literally is like the Geico commercial. "So easy a caveman could do it." But we are caught in the Nationwide commercial where, "Life comes at you fast." Cavemen never had it so easy!
Time to hit the road and get everybody drinking Trump Vodka. Then when we finally have all these people out of the stock and get it in the hands of the right people will your customers be right, all the previous companies will be right, and those who bought out DKAM will be right. Of course, Waldo will be jumping up and down in the back of the crowd screaming, "Wait! You can't buy this company out yet! It wasn't confirmed on the chart to be bought out. I didn't get my trading shares back in my account. I got headfaked into selling by the guy that made the sign for company headquarters. He was selling so I sold."
Wait!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sorry, no wait.
That 35000 shares is like all the others. It's part of the manipulation to load and go off the 144 shares. I called a market maker and he told me what they are doing. It confirms the contrary indicator that you see 144 sells before a stock goes higher.
If I have 100000 restricted shares to sell I have to file with a broker to sell them in advance. That broker tells their market maker the shares are for sale on a "best price" basis. The market maker then tips off his best hedge customer that the shares are coming. Said hedge then "commits" to that many shares or a portion of the shares. Said hedge then shorts the "top of the box" in advance of the market maker walk down. This market maker owes the selling shareholder nothing except that "best price" obligation. OMG! Far from it. In fact, the market maker is laughing because he is about to screw that seller and the rest of the outstanding shareholders. The hedge or other market maker that wants the shares just sits patiently and Mr. Market Maker goes to work for them. He sells the shares into the market over several days or weeks. Remember he has 30 days and he doesn't own the shares. That places them naked in the marketplace and in his ledger. These shares then come into the market putting pressure on the stock. Then when various blocks are filled for the buyer they cross the tape at an average price to reflect the buy. Just one problem though. The buyer of the shares was not there acively buying. The market maker is handling everything "on the books" and the stock loses that buy interest or support. Once the share certificate from the seller is delivered, the market maker can then clear the books of the naked short. That is why DKAM popped up on the Reg Sho list and then was taken off a few days later. It hasn't been on there since. Still we have the problem of the buyer getting filled but only "in kind" and with no evidence of the price going higher from buying or the naked being covered. It just crosses the tape at one obscure average price. Once the buyer, hedge, or fund is filled and ready, he then comes into the market and covers that initial short. What was "that box" thing? It was a protective short to keep the price in check while he was doing his buying. No matter where the market maker took the price down to, he was not losing any money. That's the short interest increase you recently saw. The rest of it is not even showing as short. When he covers the short, he does so with ferocity and usually with help. The short buying plus new buying just takes the stock to much higher levels where it previously had not shown the ability to hold a move. Of course it couldn't hold the move because the market maker was stepping on it. He wants the 144 seller out at the cheapest price possible. He wants his big customer to be happy from the cheap shares he just gave him. He laughs at the other shareholders for selling into the weakness and giving the buyer more cheap shares. Now the stock just runs up as easy as pie because the big buyer is in and moving it and the market maker doesn't stand in his way. This is why you see so many stocks just take off with big runs out of nowhere and hedge funds just mysteriously seem to own hundreds of thousands or millions. The buyers are about full it seems to time it perfectly with earnings. That is why it attempted to run today. Just a test run in a way. Welcome to the stock market and the law firm of hook and crook.
You got the "signal" today you wanted. First up day on a positive press release since earnings back on 12/20.
Bottom is in.
Look at shorty go with his teenie weenie bullets!
They know they cannot let it break back above $2,45 because that's the buy signal for major money to go to $3.50. Futile effort at best on their part.
There is really something good today. This is just a small oversold bounce and a small attempt to play catch up with the market. This isn't even a brief glimpse of an earnings move. One $$$$ catches wind of those filings, they will come. They always come.
A few shares to buy right here at 2.40 says $3 comes quickly on the pre earnings break out. This chart is screaming, "Take me over the pivot and I will deliver you to the promised land!"
It's right there. In fact the best the stock has acted in over 6 weeks. Most won't see it. We do and we know.
Oh you didn't know?
Today is the first day of a couple hedge funds loading large for the next leg higher?
Sorry I'll put you on the mailing list for the next one.
I'll chime in like I did before.
Sales of roughly 60000 cases. Revenues of $6.3 mil in Vodka. Another $400K or so from other products. $6.7 mil sees a 44% GP margin or $2.9 mil. SGA at around $1.3 mil so Operating Profit at 1.6 mil. Some interest expense and no taxes to pay for a long time. No one time charges. Huge increase in cash.
Net profit comes in at around $1.3 mil or 2 cents per share.
First profit ever for DKAM.