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Does EFOI make artificial turf? Do they make LED streetlights?
Yes the LED revolution is well underway and many towns are changing out old streetlights for LED but I don't see an EFOI connection to this article.
I've seen it.
Keep looking and try hanging around cool people
Saw a woman wearing an I-Watch on the subway tonight.
Looked nice.
She was excited but could not say much about it yet.
It's going to be a big seller.
Maybe it's timed to relate to the opening of LightFair.
Can't wait to go and see an IntelliTube demo and meet the team at EFOI.
I've asked every I-Phone user I know if they intend to buy the watch and they all said No. But I bet they change their tune once they see someone else who has one and loves it.
I don't use Apple products but the watch looks like it has a LOT of potential.
very Long AAPL
Welcome to I-Hub Joe.
Never go "long" a penny stock.
Ignore the pumpers and the bashers.
Don't fall in love with a stock, just trade it.
I believe those Intellitubes are the Mil-Spec version, which is the original LED Tube that EFOI made for the Navy submarines. The promise for the past few years was that they would commercialize this technology ( a retrofit bulb that can go directly into any voltage fixture without re-wiring it) and that it would be a big seller.
Looks like Intelli Tube just got some more competition.
Home Depot will have these lamps for $22.
EFOI better get it in gear and get their product to market fast.
"Cree’s LED T8 Tube Replacement installs quickly and easily as a one-for-one replacement with instant start, rapid start and dimmable electronic ballasts, with no rewiring needed. Outperforming fluorescent tubes and other popular LED replacements, the Cree TW Series LED T8 Tube Replacements turn on instantly, are dimmable with most standard dimmers, last 50,000 hours and feature a durable, shatter-proof design to deliver high-quality light for years, all backed by a five-year warranty."
EFOI - does not care about common shareholders
Feeling okay Hal?
I can never tell if you are a bull or a bear on WOLV
(Reuters) - A federal jury in Texas on Monday said Apple Inc did not infringe five wireless technology patents owned by Canadian patent licensing firm Conversant Intellectual Property Management Inc.
Core Wireless Licensing Sarl, a subsidiary of Ottawa-based Conversant, sued Apple in 2012 in a federal court in Tyler, Texas alleging the iPhone maker used its patents on wireless data transmission in its iPhones and iPads without permission.
The company was seeking $100 million in damages, or about 78 cents per Apple device sold. (Reporting by Andrew Chung; Editing by Miral Fahmy)
"I have a considerable number of shares already" - which helps to explain why I reject your reality and substitute my own.
Unfortunately I agree with you but am stuck holding a bunch of shares. LSCG has never been the same since the accident. I keep hoping for a buyout.
Anyone know what caused today's huge spike?
Using light as a pesticide could be big.
(Reuters) - Apple Inc (AAPL.O) sold the most number of smartphones globally in the fourth quarter, overtaking Samsung Electronics Co Ltd for the first time since 2011, according to research firm Gartner.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/apple-edges-samsung-global-smartphone-162057683.html
"Apple is looking to begin production of an electric vehicle as early as 2020, according to Bloomberg, citing people with knowledge of the matter."
http://www.cnbc.com/id/102440794
EFOI doing exactly what they said they would do.
Printing more & more shares, diluting the value of the existing shares.
They don't care about common shareholders; just need to find a way to meet payroll.
I think it is now in the quintuple zero's - 0.000001
Did not know a stock could be priced that low.
Only needs to go up 100,000% to reach a penny and then another 500% for me to break even.
That could happen.
Not.
You do understand that this would be a great deal for AAPL right?
And I'm sure your aware the idea was recently promoted by Rand Paul.
"This time, however, the politicians with their eye on Apple’s billions are Apple’s friends: Sen. Barbara Boxer, the California Democrat in whose old Congressional district Apple does business, and Republican Rand Paul, the libertarian from Kentucky who came to Apple’s defense two years ago,....
The bill would give Apple and other companies with large overseas earnings what they have been asking for: A tax holiday. U.S. firms would get a five-year window during which they could pay a 6.5% federal tax on the money they bring home, not 35%."
https://fortune.com/2015/01/31/washington-has-its-eye-on-apples-158-billion-in-offshore-cash/
I'm not picking on you but... be realistic. AAPL was at 109 on Tuesday - then it gained 10% in 3 days. Look at a 1 year chart of AAPL compared to the S&P 500 - who is the hare and who the tortoise? Slow and Steady is not an apt description for AAPL pps gain.
AAPL earnings were National news this week.
It does not get much better than this.
AAPL is up 50% from its 52wk low and is only 4% below the all time high. If it's under-valued now; what is the real value in your opinion?
It's Super Bowl week in the US and indeed the championship football game has become a global event. For the first time, the playing field will be lit with SSL luminaires from Ephesus Lighting based on Cree LEDs. The LED lighting delivers near double the level of illuminance on the field relative to the prior metal halide (MH) lights. Ironically, the better lighting is perhaps most important to the TV coverage because it will enable more vivid HDTV images.
Apple Proxy Statement 1/22/15
"The Company’s common stock performed exceptionally well during 2014. The Company’s stock price increased 46.1% during 2014, and the Company had a total shareholder return (“TSR”), on a dividend-reinvested basis, of 49.4%."
"The Company had an extraordinary year in 2014. Net sales rose 7%, or $11.9 billion, to $182.8 billion; operating income also rose 7%, or $3.5 billion, to $52.5 billion, compared to 2013. The Company generated revenue that was greater than the revenue generated by any company in its peer groups and more than four times the median company revenue of its primary peer group. In addition, the Company’s market capitalization continued to grow and is the largest of the S&P 500 and nearly two times larger than the next largest primary peer group company."
There is a lot of speculation that the Watch is going to be a giant failure. Just like they said the I-Pad would flop or when they said nobody wants a larger screen phone.
Analyst have to try and prove their relevance somehow.
I don't think the drop in crude oil price will affect sales of LED lighting. US Electricity is generated by coal, natural gas, nuclear and hydro. Petroleum is only about 1% (mostly in Hawaii)
There are many advantages to converting to LED.
Saving money on the labor cost to replace bulbs is a big one.
Improved quality of light, less generation of extraneous heat (which drives up cost of cooling a building) and the ability to network fixtures are a few others.
The LED industry is having a hard time generating a profit due to extreme pricing competition. Very few LED stocks have done well.
Hopefully RVLT will become profitable soon.
Why wait for the next earnings report when the most recent one tells us exactly why the stock is tanking?
"Net cash used in operating activities = Negative $2.75 Million"
"Proceeds from issuance of common stock = $5.9 Million"
"Loss from operations for 9 months ended 9/30/14 = $1.95 Million"
They need cash to keep the business running, not just to fill orders, so they are selling more and more shares of common stock which dilutes the value of your shares.
New 52 week lows hitting.
EFOI does not care about retail stock holders.
"Santa put Apples under more than half of all the Christmas trees out there this year. According to mobile analytics firm Flurry, Apple accounted for 51 percent of new device activations worldwide during Christmas week."
http://www.cnbc.com/id/102301203
What about the fact that the S-3 EFOI just filed states "We currently have a revolving credit facility that provides funding for our operations."
Printing more shares to raise cash hurts existing shareholders by diluting the value of the stock.
The O/S was 5.1 million on 12/31/13 - they have almost doubled the number of shares outstanding in one year.
EFOI does not care about shareholders - only about repaying the debts they have and their own payroll.
Never fall in love with a stock.
In the last 10Q from EFOI it states;
"The number of outstanding shares of the registrant’s Common Stock, $0.0001 par value, as of November 11, 2014 was 9,417,844"
"Immediately after the July 16, 2014 effective date, we had 8,024,813 shares of common stock issued and outstanding."
In 4 months they increased the O/S by 17% - expect this pattern to continue.
EFOI - interesting light bulbs - terrible stock
EFOI "We have experienced net losses from continuing operations of approximately $5.1 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2014 and $6.9 million, $6.6 million and $6.0 million for the years ended December 31, 2013, 2012 and 2011, respectively. As of September 30, 2014, we had cash and cash equivalents of approximately $6.7 million and an accumulated deficit of $88.1 million"
According to I-Hub there are 24 million shares short or 0.39% of the float.
Not very much.
IntelliTube is rated for 50,000 hours.
50,000 / 24 = 2,083 days / 365 = 5.7 years
So even if the consumer keeps the light on constantly - it's not going to need to be replaced for over five and a half years.
It's a problem for the entire LED industry. Just like the scene in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory when they could not let the "Ever-Lasting Gobstopper" ( a candy that never loses flavor) out of the factory or it would destroy the industry because once ever child had one, they would never buy candy again.
$400 pre split - or 57 post!!
I agree the earnings report is excellent.
Everything seems to be growing well with big potential for future growth.
It looks like a no brainer.
So where are all the investors?
Why isn't the guy from Oppenheimer telling all their clients to buy, buy, buy?
That is what is so frustrating about EFOI; we know it could be great but nobody buys the stock.
Cree is different from EFOI primarily because they are an LED chip manufacturer as well as an LED lighting product manufacturer.
Last year they made more $ selling chips than light bulbs and fixtures. This year Lighting revenue has grown over 50% but chip sales were off so earnings are down and so is the pps.
Margins on bulb sales at Home Depot are very low and EFOI will face similar difficulty when the time comes to sell Intelli-Tube in the retail market.
I've been in EFOI since 2009 and it has been a loser of an investment just like almost all the other LED stocks.
Hopefully it will turn around soon.
Also - I don't believe GE has left the LED lighting product biz unless this website is wrong; http://www.gelighting.com/LightingWeb/na/
I think Samsung left LED fixtures and bulbs biz but still makes chips.
What sort of agenda would you be referring to?
Being a human who loves another human?
You should try it sometime.
Good call and congrats
One of Apple's competitors in the mobile payment space sent out an email Wednesday telling users it had been breached.
CurrentC, which is a mobile payment system backed by the Mercantile Exchange (MCX), sent out an email to its pilot users stating that an unauthorized third party had obtained email addresses of some of its users, the MCX confirmed to CNBC in an email statement.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/102132750?trknav=homestack:topnews:1
Carl Icahn tweet:
Tmrw we’ll be sending an open letter to @tim_cook. Believe it will be interesting.
2:33 PM - 8 Oct 2014
Icahn also took to Twitter to say that it was just over a year since his firm announced its large position in Apple, and that the stock is up 50.6 percent since then.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/102070654?trknav=homestack:topnews:2
What exactly makes AAPL a POS?
Being up 44% for the TTM?
$179 Billion in revenue for the TTM?
What?