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The cell phone frame in the upper right of the bottom picture sure looks like an iPhone.
Panasonic is involved in Tesla’s battery production.
Nice close today.
BTW, Jorma uses Martin guitars and Martin use Liquidmetal, so hey relevance to the board.
Hey I get that joke. One of my favorite bands.
They are all attainable, if they just start signing contracts, making and selling.
Thanks for posting. I guess no idea if Liquidmetal is still being used. They added some extra fins, was that because they stopped using Liquidmetal in the canards, or for other design concerns? Wait and see I guess.
What struck me most in the last LQMT blog post was the 90 day time frame. Anyone who has ever had to meet a time line for deliverables knows that it is best to give yourself plenty of wiggle room. BUT Hauck didn’t do that. He could have written the entire post without mentioning a specific number. I see this as 1) they are very sure they will have a contract, 2) Hauck has been given a 90 day time line to perform or get out-so its do or die, or 3) it was really stupid to say 90 days when they risk coming up short.
I would be thrilled to know that Liquidmetal is being used in the iPhone, even if sales are low. Poor sales may be bad for Apple, but the beauty of having close to zero revenue like LQMT is that any little increase is a big deal.
I’m a glass half full kind a guy.
Maybe it is a nefarious conspiracy. Or maybe some share holder decided over the weekend that come Monday morning I’m selling and getting out. Maybe their approach to investing is less refined and they didn’t know or think about the idea of selling slowly into low volume.
I don’t know, just saying not everything is manipulation all the time.
Me, still holding.
Last year there was a trend of someone buying 100 shares in the last minute of trading. Happened quite often and had the effect of pushing the end price a little higher each time than would of otherwise occurred. I do believe one could have a long term effect with such actions. At least until the price gets completely out of sync with reality and it crashes back down.
Well, your one point spread just turned into 1.39. Yikes.
Funny, on stock charts.com the 50 day simple moving average is around 24, making the current price sit nicely above it.
Just got this email from LQMT. In guess someone is putting in a little time on the weekend, at least long enough to shoot off an email.
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See us at the SHOT Show Supplier Showcase next week
The SHOT Show (January 23-26 in Las Vegas, NV) is arguably the largest, most significant trade show for the sporting arms industry.
This show features innovations including improved shot accuracy and consistency, lighter and more customizable equipment, greater firearm durability and more. Liquidmetal’s amorphous metal manufacturing carries on this theme, enabling designers and engineers to think beyond traditional manufacturing restrictions for their component.
Stop by booth S2225 to receive the only amorphous metal part at the entire SHOT show.
Cool, as a guitar player I wish our stock would finally explode upwards so I can sell and use my profits to buy one of these sweet guitars with liqidmetal bridge pins.
Yi An Technology: solid foundation, waiting for the liquid metal outbreak
Category: Companies Research Institute: Founder Securities Co., Ltd. Researcher: Duan Ying Sheng Date: 2018-01-18
Event Description:
On January 15, the Company released the notice of the pre-announcement of 2017 results. It is estimated that the net profit attributable to the parent company for 2017 will be 32.2221 million yuan and 41.4284 million yuan, up 5% -35% over the same period of last year. The Company intensified its sales in 2017. Its sales revenue increased by 40% over the same period of last year. Net profit was affected by non-recurring gains and losses, which was lower than the growth of sales revenue.
Event Comments:
In the past 17 years, R & D is the core of the company, and the layout and reorganization of patents, teams and channels, etc. will be rectified in 18 years, which will be the year that the company will shift gears. Once again, we stress that the liquid metal is expected to explode, while the consumer electronics sector will be the first to break through. In the box: The advent of 5G will bring changes in mobile phone structure: the middle frame + non-metallic back shell into the mainstream. Compared to CNC, powder metallurgy, MIM, etc., the rapid progress of liquid metal. Due to the relatively short process of net forming + CNC / laser process, cost and performance advantages, compared with the stainless steel frame (we estimate its price at 280 yuan) to save more than 30% cost! Adopted and promoted as black technology, resembles ceramic back cover to enhance brand image.
Small pieces: glass back cover can not be drilled like aluminum alloy, can not be used as a camera, fingerprint support bracket, so the need for metal brackets, liquid metal in these small pieces of the cost more advantages, Huawei millet has been used in small quantities, VIP Has been sent samples, module plant is also followed up. The company has been developing liquid metal for a long time, doing small metal parts and back covers. In the past, there was no cost advantage over aluminum alloys in the past due to the lack of good customer and equipment processes. In 2016, after controlling the holding of Liquidmetal by Hong Kong Liquid Metals Company, the actual controller of the company, Professor Li, laid out the layout of patents, channels and visibility in order to lay a solid foundation for industrialization. A substantial increase in technological capacity, the equipment can produce and sell their own to become the industry leader. At the same time to create the industry's best team, members from the top universities and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. At the same time, the company raised shares for non-public offering approved the project to expand liquid metal. We are optimistic about the company's future as a leader in this new field of materials.
At present, the main aluminum-magnesium alloy of the company has broad application prospects in fields such as automobile lightweighting and medical biodegradable materials, and is optimistic about its steady growth. To cope with the global warming trend without delay, lightweight car into the focus of all countries. We are optimistic about the amount of magnesium alloy in the car continued to increase. Deep cooperation with the sea of ??clouds, the future is expected to reduce procurement costs. Medical biodegradable materials are widely used in the bone implant market, the market growth of space.
Investment rating and valuation
The company 17 years of research and development, finance and other higher costs, the company 650 million fixed-increase is completed, the estimated 18-year financial costs will be substantially reduced. In terms of new profits: a conservative estimate of 3 to 40 million domestic customers of liquid metal in 18 years; magnesium alloy vehicle lightweight project, saving 1,000 yuan / ton through raw materials and scrap recovery of magnesium-aluminum alloy supplier Yunhai Metal, saving 5 % Of the cost contribution of 6/7000 million profit, not big customers have about 2 billion profit, 17-19 net profit is expected 0.4,2.028 billion yuan. Not consider the issue of additional shares: the corresponding EPS of 0.09,0.49,0.69 yuan, corresponding to PE is 97x, 18x, 13x; consider the additional shares: the corresponding EPS of 0.09,0.44,0.61 yuan, the corresponding PE is 97x, 20x, 14x times. High margin of safety, maintain "highly recommended" rating!
risk warning
The risk of a drastic change in the structure of a smartphone; the permeability of liquid metal materials is less than expected.
The mothership is up over 8% in early trading. No idea why.
Maybe you guys can exchange some Grey Poupon between your yachts.
Nope, and I did get an email about the last blog post from him. I don’t see any new blog post online either. So what did he say?
“We have sufficient production capacity for the near term.”
Bruce Bromage- yesterday.
We have had 9 days of falling share price, a long bad streak for this stock. RSI and other indicators are reaching/have reached oversold. Even without the blog post I was going to say we are due for an up day or two beginning tomorrow. I was reassured by the posting as they said pretty much what I was expecting, but continued selling can wear on anyone’s optimism. Yes, I was also beginning to think “what am I doing here?” Now I feel better and will continue to hold. One of these bloody days....
My guess is we hit bottom. TWT.
I think the simple answer is they don’t have signed contracts. I’m hoping they do have strong leads in place waiting on seeing a fully functional factory with redundancy, or waiting for FDA approval etc.
I really don’t see the problem with the electrical upgrade. It not like every building available for purchase in the Lake Forest area comes with a massive electrical line. Upgrades to buildings happen. Off course they know how much juice they need. Show me the facts that someone didn’t do their job right instead of this just being part of the normal process of upgrading a building.
I actually wonder if they had already kicked down the road as far as they could. There was some expectation in the early summer that the OH would have been earlier - August or September.
I’m doing my best to display “a little more patience “. This all reminds me of the days when we fell below a dime, although I went into the red then and now I’m at least still green. If I recall, many of you geniuses held through those times, if not bought all your shares at 6 cents (playful sarcasm).
It looks like the stock price of the mothership is having another bad day. Anyone know of any bad news for Eon?
Has this been posted already?
http://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/ppmE9uudMlRCOaxO87yBKQ
They have a few losses to write-off before they have to worry about their tax rates. Wouldn’t it be nice to have to worry about taxes on profits?
Nobody here ‘knows’ what they will do, but I think most here agree that a reverse split is a stupid idea unless done under otherwise bullish conditions. For example, several quarters of growth in revenues and, dare I say, profits. Maybe then a RS to boost the share price for NASDAQ purposes may seem like a good idea.
Others, myself included, believe that if they start delivering on contracts etc that they can grow into their outstanding shares enough to get listed on NASDAQ and keep shareholders happy.
We still have cash on hand, so adding significantly to our share count to raise cash is unlikely medium-term. The stock has been much cheaper than it is now without a RS, so I don’t see that as a reason to do it.
Bottom line, I don’t see it happening anytime soon in my opinion.
I don’t understand how you come to the conclusion that they would only purchase a building that is move-on ready. It is quite reasonable to buy the right sized building in the right area that is going to need an upgrade.
Got it. Ya that is a lot of juice.
On the topic of power supply, I recently read an article about the troubles at the Tesla Gigafactory around Reno, NV. They make batteries there and are located in very close proximity to the power station. Nonetheless, they are have supply issues as even a one second brown out is enough to destroy the batch of batteries they are working on. Just an example of tolerances that one may not expect to be an issue. Anyone know the requirements for the machines at LF?
My sister once bought a medium sized warehouse from a plastics molding company. They also used a lot of electricity and you could tell from the outside because they had what looked like a high voltage transmission line tower outside the building to hold the wires leading in. Point is that the upgrade may be more than just running another line or adding a new breaker panel. They may have to add some serious hardware.
Looks like someone couldn’t wait to get the day started with a pre-market trade.
Glass vials for drugs? Not getting the connection.
You know you have a LQMT problem when your EKG starts to match the stock chart.
Couldn’t TC’s move to Korea be a possible reason for the sale? If he is trying settle in and move his assets, maybe he sold to buy his mansion etc?
As i digest the news of Chung’s sale, the one thing that strikes me the most is his abysmal timing. So much for insider information. I can’t quite understand it. If he knew the future was bright, then why sell at all. If he knew we are in for the long road, then why wait for the bottom of a multi-day sell off to sell. Either he does not have as much insider knowledge as I give him credit for, or he had some short/medium term considerations forcing a sale as he saw the price melt away.
I’ve never seen after hour sales portend anything. In fact I’m not even convinced they are after hours. May have just been a trade registered late on busy day, or such I’ve heard suggested on this board.
I can’t remember ever seeing million share trades.
Me, I’m holding through all this the same way I heard all my shares bought in the teens only to watch the price plunge below a dime. Counting on contracts and production starting in 2018.
Apple does not have much of a history in directly manufacturing things, they purposefully stay focused on design and software. They buy small software companies and did buy out some small start-ups for electric vehicle manufacturing (again more for the talent then anything else). Apple has enough money to buy one of the Big 3 automakers, did they do that when they were interested in building a car? Nope. When it comes to hardware they contract and let others stay in control of the factory, but will use their money to invest in upgrades, expansion etc so that they are the premier customer. Thus, if (and I repeat IF IF IF) Apple wants to get real about using liquidmetal, then I think they may invest in the company, but not buy them out. As far as I can tell, Apple has only spent 20% of their 1 billion dollar US manufacturing fund they announced in Spring. I still see that as the best possibility for Apple investing in LQMT in the US. A small sliver of that fund would be a big deal for us.