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Got scared and flushed like a turd at $0.0025 on the 13th after holding from $0.006.
E*Trade’s back with only a million for openers. Huh.
Funny watching buyers avoid taking out E*Trade’s 6 million shares for six days until there was no other option. Luckily he got out just in time,, for it to go up now. This will go in my notebook of sophisticated trading strategies. Trade fee at .0003, .0028, .0027 and then .0003 again.
Winner! You’re on it now. Ending 6/30 they’re down, we’re up. That only leaves July and 8 days in august before the letter went out acknowledging issues and working on corrections. If their issues didn’t reflect in our 2nd q they won’t in our third best I can cypher.
I think you understand they have heavy capital investment with the distilled line to completion, new hires to run it and now we know a new line in Arizona soooo,,,we also know they have little cash on hand at the end of every quarter despite a good net margin soooo,,, the cancellation of the buy back was done to pay operating expenses and A88 was a face saving pretext because they got giddy and spent far more than their $25k each month budget allowance best I can tell.
Cheers bottoms up!
Thanks. Nice. Rev down 8% on the quarter and better margins with far less cash used.
Now who out of 9 experienced what % of reduced sales is the only question and I’m betting not much falls to Hiru.
E*trade moves back from .0027 to .0028 for an extra $56 minus a new trade fee. Entertaining.
What price will E*Trade reload 2-4 million shares?
The pre-tweet tweet didn’t dissuade him.
This post highlights what I’ve been sleeping on that doesn’t add up.
On 8/30 we’re buying back shares next week but then when the buzz and burn down started over WTER demise and the letter by them from 8/8 comes out Hiru made the statement about suspending buybacks when a customer is having trouble.
Doesn’t add up unless,,
Hiru didn’t have any problems with raw materials and shipments and just found out when Hiru stock dropped because they were buying back through August and planning to resume in September?
Or something other happened I must be missing?
Adding clarity: If Hiru was impacted by a customer having problems prior to 8/8 or after why were they buying back in august and planning to in September?
I’m going out on a rosy limb and say A88 cures it’s raw material/shipping issues and gives Hiru more business (California if she gets specific). New line = new customer 4th quarter along with initial distilled deliveries and on track for $30 million+ revenue.
Yes agree he’s stubborn but he’s consistent as I’ve seen his E*trade excess blocks for some time here,, 2-4 million but 6 this time was a record. Flipping for a few ticks and a few thousand dollars isn’t bad if that’s your thing.
Hope todays pick of self-leveling concrete wasn’t recent and for the distilled line which would be way off schedule lol.
Funny they always seem to leave more questions than answers in the twitter-verse communications.
Skipping over,,will send videos of distilled equipment end of September and drop pics,,prepping for a new line.
Wonder do they know how disjointed they are? I think so and don’t care,,puff puff pass!
Yeah I just can’t walk that walk at my age. Wasted pixels I’ll never get back.
E*trade drops his 2.137 million balance to $0.0028. I think this is a record for dumping 6 million shares lol. Very disciplined flipper.
Only thing I see COULD have affected Hiru from this letter would be lack of WTER provided raw materials. Bottles labels cartons minerals? Not lack of orders as it’s all about failure to deliver needed product unless Hiru was one of the co-packers having production issues. Delayed shipping of Hiru finished goods doesn’t reflect on Hiru.
Not sure there’s going to be any impact on Hiru.
They were real chatty from $0.0016 to $0.006 hmmmm lol.
Third or fourth day E*Trade trying to flip his 6 million shares at $0.003?
A volume analysis of the leg down/sell off from $0.0045 10 days ago.
The average 10 day volume is 15,930,000 shares each day.
159,300,000 shares in total have traded over the last 10 days which is 8.2% of the 1,941,425,394 issued and outstanding shares.
That’s a “Negative Ghost Rider the pattern is full.” It’s exhausting when you think about all the bullshit that flies around Hiru over the years that has been proven time and time again to be baseless fear uncertainty and doubt. We need to start a list of failed scam accusations in sticky notes and a request to please review before bashing to make sure you’re being original.
A88 has an independent co-packer for TX and it’s not Hiru lol.
“It has entered into co-packing agreements with nine different bottling companies located in Virginia, Georgia, California, Florida, Texas, Wisconsin, Nevada and Arizona to act as co-packers for our product.”
Wednesday down 30% today up 22.5% have I got that right? Off -7.5% since Tuesday’s close?
“Hmmm” is interesting. That possibility got past me. You did see and reply to my chart warning and concurred.
“Some replies and follow ups would be worth a pound of cure.”
Too bad they didn’t listen because we’re in the pound of cure phase now,,needing solid reasons for people to pay higher prices.
I tend to focus on the other 1,876,425,394 shares outstanding that didn’t trade today vs the 65 million that did. I believe the up and down cycle volumes are much lower (excluding the trip to $0.0016 event) than in the past which tells me 95% of the stock is just molding on the sidelines waiting for copper, nickel or silver.
If that wasn’t the case why doesn’t it trade 100-500 million or a billion shares on the “hair on fire” up or down days? lol
Hopefully between buybacks and the 95% longs accumulating shares to hold and mold the float continues to tighten and she continues to deliver the results as predicted.
I also noticed WTER’s August demise aligns with the 8/8 apology letter they sent out to customers that JOL posted so all of that and the projection onto Hiru makes sense now.
Oh well strong support at $0.0016
Whiskey/Rocks (always a double)
Thanks very much HL, there’s your template imo. She was personally stepping in to clean up the twitter-fest mess that frequently occurs when baseless bashers get a hold of a misguided bone and somebody wearing big red shoes tries putting out the fire with gasoline.
Fwiw I think she rightly doesn’t really care about the near term pps because:
1) her preferred shares aren’t coming out for cash as commons anytime soon if ever. (they could just be surrendered in a future sale)
2) She doesn’t plan to raise capital with treasury stock
3) when she did raise capital with treasury stock she destroyed the pps rather than structure some type of less destructive stock base funding lol.
I think she’s focused on a loooong term value of Hiru Corp.
I think someone who is an employee but not an “insider” who has tradeable stock a fragile ego and big red shoes is highly sensitive to the pps.
Don’t know if you saw it but I posted a three year chart a month or so ago.
Yup. You know me and the keys to the clown car theory so riddle me this,, why when sometime back she tweeted “Kathryn here” and then went on to state or clarify something or another if she was the one consistently responding with the lousy syntax, hair trigger and fragile ego?
That’s the one tweet ever I will attribute to her. The rest, meh?
If you ever come across that exchange I think you could use it as a master to lay over other communications. Kind of like a decoder ring.
I’m waiting to see if Musk reverses course for click metrics and lets people read without having an account again. He’s pretty mercurial and has manage to cut revenue in half so,,,lol.
They’ve got a full dance card of corporate actions ahead lol.
10Q report/extension, shareholders meeting/A/S raise, minimum bid notice in the que.
All easily resolved and forgotten when they file first and second quarter increased revenue, margins yoy lol.
Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?
Strong support @ $0.0016
RSI 26.24 nice
Alkaline88 August 8, 2023
Dear Valued Customer,
This letter is being written to explain some of the issues that ALKALINE 88
has experienced over
the past couple of months regarding production and shipping delays.
The summer season is always challenging regarding capacity for bottled water, In the past to mitigate the seasonality, we have been able to build up finished inventory leading into the summer. But this year due to some production issues resulting in delays with existing co packers, we were unable to build up inventory as we have in the past. Additionally, we have experienced some issues with timely raw material delivery by some of our key suppliers. With this background, please know we are working diligently through all these issues to get back to our normal service levels which you have come to expect from Alkaline88 over the many years of doing business with us. For example, concerning the delays we have experienced with our existing co packers, we currently are in the midst of adding two new co-packing partners to assist with production. Additionally, as many of you know, Yellow Freight has filed for bankruptcy which has caused a backlog of
shipping issues for Alkaline88, as well as many other manufacturers. Alkaline88 continues to have strong sales, and frankly our sales %, and unit % numbers YOY are outperforming most of our key competitors. As you know, we have had an excellent service level for many years, even during the COVID days when other competitors were not able to deliver but Alkaline88 did. We ask that you have patience as we resolve these supply chain issues and please rest assured we are taking all measures to correct these issues as soon as possible. In the meantime, we have stressed the need for continual communication with our
entire team to keep you apprised on this situation.
As always, we appreciate your continued support, and patience.
All of this for $0.0036 ? Whew. False unless you did a Hiru private placement: “she has taken shareholder money to start the company and keep it afloat”. If you bought stock from a broker you bought it from another shareholder not her.
Thanks. The “uncurated rumor cascade effect”. One guy gets scared they’re not buying back and A88 is going bankrupt and refuses to see his profit disappear so he starts selling and selling begets selling resulting in bid whacking with your hair on fire because nobody wants to see their profits disappear.
All of this on average 10 day volume of 7.53 million shares a day. Got it. Welcome to the OTC. Thanks again.
Fun fact: Current RSI 34.21 is lower than it was on 3/24 when it was RSI 42.01, traded 140 million shares with a low of $0.0016.
Apparently Hiru only tracks WTER when WTER goes down. It’s been green three days now. Hiru? Not so much.
Yup all of that. I’m not scared because there’s strong support at $0.0016 lol!
Lol I’m not sure if we know they are not buying because I thought they said it would be disclosed at the end of the months after changing from blow by blow after every buy. Hard to keep up tbh.
I know what they said and anything is possible but I’ve never seen it before because it’s not required.
It’s going to be another bash fest when they explain what they meant and say the 10k will be audited. Lol
In the 10-Q, firms are required to disclose relevant information regarding their finances as a result of their business operations. The 10-Q is generally an unaudited report.
A 10-Q must be filed for each of the first three quarters of the company's fiscal year.
Key Takeaways
SEC Form 10-Q is a comprehensive report of financial performance submitted quarterly by all public companies to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Form 10-Q contains financial statements, management discussion and analysis, disclosures, and internal controls for the previous quarter.
Companies must file their 10-Qs 40 or 45 days after the end of their quarters, depending on the size of their public float.
A snapshot of the company's financial position, Form 10-Q provides investors with information they can compare to previous periods and use to evaluate the outlook for the stock's performance.
Form 10-Q is not an audited statement, unlike the annual Form 10-K companies are also required to file.
Understanding SEC Form 10-Q
Federal securities laws mandate that publicly traded companies provide certain information to shareholders and the general public. These disclosures may occur periodically or as specific events occur. A company utilizes Form 10-Q—one of many required by the SEC—upon the completion of each quarter to release unaudited financial statements and give an overview of the company’s financial situation.
The exact filing dates depend on the organization’s fiscal year, but it is necessary to file three 10-Q reports each year.1 A 10-Q for the final quarter of the year is not required: After the fourth quarter, a company files Form 10-K, an annual report, instead. This report, unlike the 10-Q, is audited and tends to contain more details.
Only one issue with Hiru and it’s clear if you understand what the Volume by Price indicator on this chart represents relative to the 1.94 billion shares issued and outstanding.
https://schrts.co/GminpGZR
Smooth move to get out at the open dumping to $0.0036 before it goes up. Gonna put that in my tips and tricks notebook of trading strategies.
Here’s some examples of what A88 could be aiming for IF they manage to establish Alkaline Water as a category thing like energy drinks did and get the national production/distribution network in place. (Not saying the majors make a play but there’s a lot of others that could get involved. There’s a lot of money at stake in the beverage/water sector).
I read their K acknowledging losses with planned cost cutting while simultaneously detailing their commitment to building out distribution with adequate resources for the next 12 months and willingness to acquire more capital to stay the course. Not what you say if you’re worried about going out of business imo. If you’re afraid you say we’re laying off people, discontinuing expansion, conserving cash and focusing on our core customers yada yada.
I also noticed they believe to have $14 million a month of wholesale production capacity from 9 locations which would be $168 million annually. They’re only using 39% so far at $64 million.
3/21
https://www.foodnavigator-usa.com/Article/2021/03/08/Nestle-USA-acquires-Essentia-Water-Acquiring-Essentia-gives-us-an-immediate-strong-position-in-the-functional-water-market
The acquisition of Essentia Water, which positions itself as a "s?upercharged ionized alkaline water"? containing trace amounts of rehydrating electrolytes, will help Nestlé establish a foothold in the high-growth, US functional water set, dominated by its competitors (Coca-Cola's SmartWater and PepsiCo-owned LIFEWTR).
8/2014
The Coca-Cola Company will make a net cash payment of $2.15 billion and transfer its worldwide energy business to Monster. In exchange, Monster will issue to The Coca-Cola Company the shares of Monster common stock (17% post transaction), transfer its non-energy business to The Coca-Cola Company, and enter into expanded distribution arrangements.
8/2022
PepsiCo announced Monday a $550 million investment in energy drink maker Celsius Holdings as part of a long-term distribution deal with the smaller company.
Energy drinks are one of the fastest-growing nonalcoholic beverage categories.
In the first quarter, Celsius’ U.S. revenue soared 217% to $123.5 million as demand for its energy drinks exploded.
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Pepsi has been doubling down on energy in recent years as SODA CONSUMPTION FAILS. In early 2020, it bought legacy energy drink maker Rockstar for $3.85 billion with a goal of revitalizing its sales. Celsius recently overtook the brand as the fourth most popular energy drink in the U.S.
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/primo-water-corporation-announces-acquisitions-in-north-america-301453851.html
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/quench-announces-acquisition-of-vero-water-301392867.html
Here’s some examples of what A88 could be aiming for IF they manage to establish Alkaline Water as a category thing like energy drinks did and get the national production/distribution network in place. (Not saying the majors make a play but there’s a lot of others that could get involved. There’s a lot of money at stake in the beverage/water sector).
I read their K acknowledging losses with planned cost cutting while simultaneously detailing their commitment to building out distribution with adequate resources for the next 12 months and willingness to acquire more capital to stay the course. Not what you say if you’re worried about going out of business imo. If you’re afraid you say we’re laying off people, discontinuing expansion, conserving cash and focusing on our core customers yada yada.
I also noticed they believe to have $14 million a month of wholesale production capacity from 9 locations which would be $168 million annually. They’re only using 39% so far at $64 million.
3/21
https://www.foodnavigator-usa.com/Article/2021/03/08/Nestle-USA-acquires-Essentia-Water-Acquiring-Essentia-gives-us-an-immediate-strong-position-in-the-functional-water-market
The acquisition of Essentia Water, which positions itself as a "s?upercharged ionized alkaline water"? containing trace amounts of rehydrating electrolytes, will help Nestlé establish a foothold in the high-growth, US functional water set, dominated by its competitors (Coca-Cola's SmartWater and PepsiCo-owned LIFEWTR).
8/2014
The Coca-Cola Company will make a net cash payment of $2.15 billion and transfer its worldwide energy business to Monster. In exchange, Monster will issue to The Coca-Cola Company the shares of Monster common stock (17% post transaction), transfer its non-energy business to The Coca-Cola Company, and enter into expanded distribution arrangements.
8/2022
PepsiCo announced Monday a $550 million investment in energy drink maker Celsius Holdings as part of a long-term distribution deal with the smaller company.
Energy drinks are one of the fastest-growing nonalcoholic beverage categories.
In the first quarter, Celsius’ U.S. revenue soared 217% to $123.5 million as demand for its energy drinks exploded.
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Pepsi has been doubling down on energy in recent years as SODA CONSUMPTION FAILS. In early 2020, it bought legacy energy drink maker Rockstar for $3.85 billion with a goal of revitalizing its sales. Celsius recently overtook the brand as the fourth most popular energy drink in the U.S.
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/primo-water-corporation-announces-acquisitions-in-north-america-301453851.html
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/quench-announces-acquisition-of-vero-water-301392867.html
Y/w. My take is they’re clear about the plan and cost to buildout a ubiquitous brand. You don’t get here by accident and go “Oops I guess we’re done”
As of March 31, 2023, we had an accumulated deficit of $137,078,578.
Their losses are in marketing, customer acquisition, gaining market share not in selling water.
They will issue/sell stock and borrow etc to fund gaining market share as long as there’s a market opening and the water is selling out.
They may run a quarter billion to half billion dollar accumulated deficit before they are everywhere and commonly known.
At that point the buildout is done and costs go down and roi begins.
Typically at that point a buyout from a major comes along and the quarter billion dollar accumulated deficit becomes a loss carry forward asset to the buyer and part of the $$$ buyout equation.
That’s what it looks like to me.
The idea WTER is going anywhere anytime soon or in a few quarters if they get de-listed is amusing. Hiru holders would benefit from a full reading of their latest very transparent 10-K. Lays out the size and scope of A88, growth goals, competition, risks, Roth agreement, accounting/filing deficiencies and corrections etc.
Corporate Overview
Founded in 2012, The Alkaline Water Company (NASDAQ: WTER) is headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona. Its flagship product, Alkaline88®, is a leading premier alkaline water brand available in bulk and single-serve sizes along with eco-friendly aluminum packaging options. The Company offers retail consumers bottled alkaline water in 500-milliliter, 700-milliliter, 1-liter, 1.5 -liter, 2-liter, 3-liter and 1-gallon sizes, all of which is produced through an electrolysis process that uses specialized electronic cells coated with a variety of rare earth minerals to produce 8.8 pH drinking water without the use of any manmade chemicals. The Company also sells a line of Alkaline88® Sports Drinks.
Our bottled alkaline water product is presently available in over 75,000 stores in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, the Caribbean and in Mexico and Canada. We distribute our product through several channels. We sell through large national distributors (UNFI, KeHE, C&S, and Core-Mark), which together represent over 150,000 retail outlets. We also sell our products directly to retail clients, including convenience stores, natural food products stores, large ethnic markets and national retailers and through Direct Store Distributors in selected markets, including Columbia Distributing, Mahaska, Nevada Beverage, and Hensley, covering Nevada, Arizona, Pacific Northwest and Midwest region. Combined, they service over 25,000 customers in eight states. Each one carries our full line of waters. Some examples of retail clients are: Walmart, CVS, Rite-Aid, Family Dollar, Food Lion, Albertson's/Safeway, Kroger companies, Sam's Club, Schnucks, Smart & Final, Jewel-Osco, Sprouts, Bashas', Stater Bros. Markets, Unified Grocers, Bristol Farms, Publix, Vallarta, Superior Foods, Ingles, Shaw's, Raley's, Harris Teeter, Festival Foods, HEB and Brookshire's. The majority of our sales to retail clients are through brokers and distributors, however, sales to our larger retail clients are often direct to the client's own warehouse distribution network. Our full line of Alkaline88® bottled water products and sports drinks are presently available for purchase at www.alkaline88.com and www.thealkalinewaterco.com.
Our operating subsidiary, Alkaline 88, LLC, operates primarily as a marketing, distribution, and manufacturing company for our alkaline bottled water products. It has entered into co-packing agreements with nine different bottling companies located in Virginia, Georgia, California, Florida, Texas, Wisconsin, Nevada and Arizona to act as co-packers for our product. Our current capacity at all plants exceeds approximately $14.0 million per month wholesale.
Our component materials are readily available through multiple vendors. Our principal suppliers are Vav Plastics Inc., Smurfit, and CKS Packaging.
Full report here
https://ir.thealkalinewaterco.com/sec-filings
Yeah that’s the ticket.
Clueless opinions are still opinions.
Speaking of receipts here’s a funny one I came across. Oh the irony.
Quantum price action
All,
I’ve been getting a few questions as regards the strength in Quantum’s stock price. There are two causes, in my opinion. First, we had two historic holders who blew out of stock in the last two weeks. They had been sitting on it for a while and finally cleaned up. Their knowledge of the company’s fundamentals is negligible and their selling is nothing more than a buying opportunity in my opinion.
Secondly, there was an article out in the Chinese press that puts a little more substance on our Chinese JV. Here is the article, which you’ll need to “right click” and then translate to read. http://www.ce.cn/xwzx/gnsz/gdxw/201605/08/t20160508_11322297.shtml
Cheers!
Daniel Carlson
Cell: +1 415 509 4590