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Canards
Wondering if the rolled metal patent issued in Europe can be applied to roll out LQMT Canards?
Take a look at this pic from the LQMT blog, looks like the canard could be cut from a sheet of rolled liquidmetal.
http://info.liquidmetal.com/blog/bid/271301/Liquidmetal-Case-Study-Missile-Flight-Control-Surfaces
Wondering what manufacturing companies Lockheed Martin uses, and if any are in Europe, that could already be making these LQMT canards...
Along with the recent press release that LQMT now offers the turn key mfg solutions to licensees...
I see a lot of info that could lead to the possibility of LMT being a new licensee of LQMT... IMO bigger than Apple, but of course, this is all speculation.
Samsung rolls out smartwatch
http://www.samsung.com/global/microsite/galaxynote3+gear/index.html?gclid=CJ7W4oja0rkCFa1xOgodW3AAOg
How long til iWatch?
With LQMT's experience in OMEGA watch part manufacturing it begs the question will Apple use LQMT's core competency to produce some kind of smartwatch to compete with Samsung? You know it's coming.
Also remember, the Peker article where he referred to Liquidmetal most likely being used in a "breakthrough product"
Also, the patented "rolled metal" machines or however they worded it... seems like it could be used for watch faces, or bands, or glass faces....
Our discussion should be about pursuit of legal action, not whether this company will ever turn around. It won't. It was a scam. We got taken and we deserve to be compensated!
Anyone who has been a shareholder as long as I have knows the trading suspension killed us. I'm out over $10g from this pump and dump.
Yes! Finally!! I'm quitting my job and going on vacation!
Just kidding.
Good day for LQMT, hopefully more will come. I'm thinking positively about this. Once this hits $2 I'll buy myself a nice Omega Seamaster and maybe a new iPhone as well.
Go LQMT!
If this breaks .14 sky's the limit. IMO that won't happen without large institutional investment or partnership with a big, wealthy, and well-known company. We need another apple rumor. When this hits $1 I'm out.
Sounds like you've taken some good strides toward getting "made whole." Please keep us updated of any progress, as I would like to be made whole as well. We were all lied to and taken advantage of and deserve to be compensated.
Forget Apple, the real money will come from a contract yet to be signed in the aerospace, defense, or medical industry.
All these seeds planted during investor presentations will eventually yield fruit. I'm tellin you, this company is good for the long haul. My money is staying in LQMT.
A reverse split is like you have 10 $10 bills and you trade them in for 1 $100 bill. Same amount, instead of dollars its shares.
Companies sometimes do this because they think it will improve the perception of their stock if it is at a higher value. Investors usually don't like them especially if they hold a lot of shares at an unrealized loss, which I'm guessing is most of us on this message board.
I always remind myself to not get emotionally attached to an investment. We all want to see this baby grow. I've been feeling very risk averse lately.
"Be greedy when other's are fearful and be fearful when other's are greedy" -Warren Buffet.
Too bad that logic doesn't apply to companies like LQMT which has no revenue, volume, plans for the future, or transparency.
They are using Corning's Willow Glass.
http://www.slashgear.com/apple-willow-glass-iwatch-smartwatch-could-be-very-curved-indeed-11268768/
Maybe we can hope for a liquidmetal face or bezel, like what's in the Omega watch.
iWatch?
I'm grasping at anything. This stock is causing me depression. I should have sold at .3
Bob Howard-Anderson
LinkedIn Profile
EXPERIENCE
Management Consultant
Various VCs, Private Equity, Start-ups, and Fortune 500 companies
April 2011 – Present (1 year 11 months)
President and CEO
Occam Networks, Inc.
February 2002 – February 2011 (9 years 1 month)
VP of Product Operations
Procket Networks, Inc.
August 2000 – February 2002 (1 year 7 months)
VP Eng
Sun Microsystems, Inc
1995 – 2000 (5 years)
VP of Engineering
Network Equipment Technologies
1991 – 1994 (3 years)
Dir. of Engineering
Octocom Systems - Telebit
1988 – 1991 (3 years)
Various
BBN
1980 – 1988 (8 years)
EDUCATION
Tufts University
BSEE/Phy
1975 – 1978
If I was recently given a board position I probably wouldn't want to rock the boat too much.
We can all hope he and everyone else votes independently.
Dilution raises concerns for me that dilution will never end.
The only way LQMT has been raising money is by issuing more stock. This should be a huge concern for longs. The amount of dilution has increased over hte last 2 years. With the rate increasing and no end in sight, how can us longs be confident that a turnaround will take place?
I have faith, I still own over 30,000 shares but It's hard to keep the faith every time I see more worthless shares being issued. We need revenue. Period. Until then it's all speculation, which fits the penny traders a lot better than longs like myself.
That being said, this is my speculative position in my portfolio. Every investor needs one. I really like the risk/reward here so I'll keep holding on until I stop liking it. I have at least 35 years until I retire, so I can afford to wait!
Good luck everyone.
Dr. Glenton Jelbert, VP of Engineering.
Great, a VP of engineering who has absolutely no experience in engineering. Consultant, business analyst, and phD research. From an HR perspective, sure this guy has great education credentials, impressive phD from Cambridge and 2 BS in advanced math, theoretically he might be good at engineering, but 0 experience. I'd be interested to know what kind of research he did at Cambridge for 4 years, and if he actually engineered anything that he did R&D on. Seems like he'd be a great analyst given his credentials but a VP of Engineering? Maybe he had an amazing interview, but from his resume alone I wouldn't have hired him.
Every new VP hire further erodes my confidence in Steipp.
LinkedIN profile
VP Engineering
Liquidmetal Technologies
November 2012 – Present (3 months)Orange County, California Area
Commercialising bulk metallic glasses (aka amorphous metals), including R&D and sales support.
Head of Enterprise Risk Management and Technology Qualification
DNV Consulting
January 2011 – November 2012 (1 year 11 months)Singapore
Management consulting, helping to understand the technology consequences of business decisions and the business consequences of technology decisions. The Clean Technology Centre worked primarily in energy and maritime. Quite varied management consulting, including technology outlook, market surveys, quantitative cost and schedule risk analysis, value chain analysis, enterprise risk management, and quantitative enterprise risk management.
Senior Consultant
DNV Consulting
October 2010 – December 2010 (3 months)
Working in the clean technology centre
Research Fellow
Nanyang Technological University
March 2009 – October 2010 (1 year 8 months)
Director
Leviqqio
November 2006 – December 2008 (2 years 2 months)
PhD Researcher
University of Cambridge
2004 – 2008 (4 years)
Volunteer Consultant
Technoserve Tanzania
February 2004 – April 2004 (3 months)
Business Analyst
Capital One
February 2002 – May 2003 (1 year 4 months)
BA
McKinsey & Company
1999 – 2002 (3 years)
Mostly correct. Materion is LQMT's source of raw materials.
Interesting analysis you've done but I disagree.
Apple wins patent for Glass Alignment for high temperature process...making curved glass.
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.htm&r=36&p=1&f=G&l=50&d=PTXT&S1=%2820121225.PD.%20AND%20Apple.ASNM.%29&OS=ISD/20121225%20AND%20AN/Apple&RS=%28ISD/20121225%20AND%20AN/Apple%29
OK I need a little help with this one, as I know basically nothing about metals or engineering. So Apple won 25 new patents yesterday, Merry Christmas Apple. I'm trying to make sense of some of these, to see if Liquidmetal would apply based on the description given.
Every time i see 'nickel alloy', I get a little giddy, but I'm not sure if my elation is justified or if I should be like Larry David and Curb my enthusiasm.
If anyone on this board could shed some light on what the heck this means, that would be great.
Referring to FIG. 2B, the alignment member 202 may be bimetallic (e.g. formed from two different metals) and have a thickness, T1, of between about 0.25 mm to about 5 mm. In one embodiment, a first metal 216 may be a nickel alloy, such as Hastelloy-X, that has a coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) of about 16 ppm/K. The second metal 218 may be an alloy steel or steel, such as 316 stainless steel, that has a CTE of about 17 ppm/K. The type of metal is not intended to be limiting as any type of metal may be used, such as titanium. The two metals may be joined together using any known process such as cladding, spot welding, or any other similar processes.
At high temperatures, the alloy steel expands at a slightly faster rate than the nickel alloy. Thus, this causes the alignment member 202 to bend in the direction toward the alloy steel, or the metal with the higher CTE.
Also,
here is the link for the sim card ejector patent
And
http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2012/12/apple-wins-patents-relating-to-a-super-thin-usb-connector-the-imacs-housing-4g-lte-technology-25-more.html
Links to the 25 other patents
Apple wins key patent for SIM ejector tool. Looks like the LQMT SIM ejector is back!
http://appleinsider.com/articles/12/12/26/apple-wins-key-patent-for-sim-connector-designs-in-mobile-products
Looks like support at .1. Nice bounce up. Avg. Volume has increased slightly since December and seems to be holding at these higher levels but hasn't picked up enough to a point that signifies a rising trend, IMO. We are however, close to oversold territory, which if you believe in that kind of thing should mean volume will rise as the flippers come back in. When the 15 day WMA breaks over .145 and rises with good volume that's the golden cross I'm watching for. (if you believe in this kind of thing for penny stocks)
Fighting the urge to buy more at .10......
LQMT is about 15% of my portfolio... Im thinking that's too high but man I love this stock at .10
This company is worth about as much as a wooden nickel.
I've lost over $10,000 on UTOG. Bad bet, a very very bad bet. Chalked up to lessons learned. Still holding on though, why bother selling when I've already lost 98%.
Bromage is a PhD in Psychology.
He's a psych guy who probably couldn't or didn't want to be a doctor, so he got a job in Aerospace... Then tech companies, in Silicon Valley. Gotta pay off those student loans somehow I guess.
I could see how a person trained in psychology could excel in sales, he's obviously got the intelligence to learn quickly, as evident by his numerous positions in several industries.
(from an HR perspective) What competencies does this guy have that can make LQMT money?
He led development for an atomic clock at SYMM. Ok, so he has experience in project mgmt, but to what extent did he generate revenues? Sounds like he led people to did that work. Leading and managing people is a talent good psych people have... but if the teams at LQMT of developers haven't been able to get anything done so far, how will bringing in a leader help? I'd rather see a replacement of the team, and get a leader with engineering skills, not sales, project mgmt, and psychology skills.
Just a few months ago in June he was working on an app to help people with alzheimers. What's this guy's deal? I'm not sold on him, it seems from his resume that his career is all over the place with no direction, which leads me to believe a job at LQMT for him is just a job.
I'd be happier to see a strong leadership core of people who are passionate about injection molding, engineering, R&D, and manufacturing parts, not med school dropouts and silicon valley nomads.
I wouldn't have hired him.
Tiger Woods y'all, Tiger Woods y'all.
Celebrity endorsement for golf club would be huge. Massive attention on LQMT. More attention = more interest... from potential partners which can lead to manufacturing deals which leads to revenues which leads to more people throwing their hard earned $$$ into LQMT and playing the penny game.
I'm in.
New Omega watches have a Liquidmetal face.... and they look pretty bada$$. I bought 7500 more shares today, ready to rock, once this breaks over .13 and the 3 month WMA turns positive with good volume this penny stock is gonna be worth all the risk. MAKE IT RAIN.
Today's trading shows a Bullish Homing Pigeon in the candlesticks...which usually signals the end of a downward trend.
Shorts, cover your position, longs, buy now before the jump..
Tomorrow's gonna be a big gain!! Load up before we hit .20s (I know I will)
http://www.omegawatches.com/spirit/watchmaking/liquidmetal
I'm not sure if anyone has posted this or seen this yet. The video on the page shows a pretty good example of how Liquidmetal is used in manufacturing with molds. For those who don't know, Swatch supplies certain materials for Omega. This is the fruit of the Swatch deal. Booya.
If I only had $7,500 laying around that I didn't know what to do with, I'd go out and buy myself a nice Omega watch. When LQMT hits $2 that'll be my present to myself for all my patience and hand-wringing.
Fact is, these watches are super premium luxury item. The market for super luxury items is not affected by recessions, look at the stock performance of Tiffany's, another super luxury item from 09-12 for example. 2009 low of 17 and change up to 82.91 at its peak in 2011. An Omega watch doesn't have the social status of a tiffany's ring, but the demand for these types of items is not affected by austerity. As the saying goes, the rich get richer, and the poor get poorer.
Hopefully Liquimetal Omega watches become the new coolest thing. I bet the next earning's release will have some decent revenues on it from Swatch.
http://www.phonesreview.co.uk/2012/11/20/iphone-5s-liquid-metal-64-bit-a7-chip-and-wireless-charging/
Another article! Buy now before this takes off!
http://iphone5newsblog.com/2012/11/16/iphone-5s-return-to-glass-back-liquidmetal/
Liquidmetal Iphone 5s...rumors are starting to swirl.
Silicon Valley companies have a habit of having tunnel vision, ie. not thinking outside of silicon valley.
Makes you wonder if Steipp and crew think that having Apple sign a licensing agreement for "all CE" is the key to riches. I'd like to see the expiration of the apple agreement, which would allow other CE companies to use LQMT. MSFT, RIM, Samsung, HTC, Sprint etc could all benefit from LQMT's patents.
Accounting losses aside, I'm very bullish about our future cash flows. We are an IP company, we get money through licensing IP and sale of IP. It's great that Visser is so deeply involved, and inspiring to think that any large production Visser does with LQMT will be a constant revenue stream, however (and this is a big however) If the revenues are significant enough, that means Visser will pay LQMT for the right to mold every single piece it makes, which begs the question, why hasn' Visser just purchased the IP, or the whole darn company?
It would be great to hear from anyone with knowledge about IP law.
$12 million in cash from dilution will keep them solvent through 2013 according to the CC. IMO it is highly unlikely they would dilute again before then.
I agree with the sentiment that they refused Visser's $2mil because of his growing control. According to Etrade: Barney Visser personally owns 37.9 million shares, which is 53.8% of outstanding shares. He already has majority control. Also Norden, LLC, one of his companies, owns 10.39% of outstanding shares.
Visser runs sh*t.
WOW Nice big purchasing this morning. Looks like some people are very excited and bullish about the CC later today.
I set my limit buy this morning but it already passed. At sub .12 a buyer now could double on any positive news from the CC.
Agreed, a lot of good, real, unbiased info was released. I admire WPRT's transparency and am very bullish about its future cash flows once the new products are released. Especially the Chinese WIIWI or whatever it's called ;) Our 35% interest in that company is becoming more profitable as time goes on.
I think this is a great buy opportunity and the rebound will continue based on new American contracts. I expect American growth in spending to revive the cash position of this company. Not counting on France or the EU to help much, although the new rules and labor tax changes in France have some positive implications for ALU.
And I'm just supposed to take your word for it? Qualify your statement son.
How did this board turn into an apple fanboy forum?
In light of the patent wars going on between Samsung and Apple, a good question to ask is, why hasn't Apple done anything with it's exclusive fully paid worldwide right to use LQMT in anything that falls under the consumer electronics umbrella?
Maybe because they just wanted to lock up the IP from competitors. $20 mil is a drop in the bucket for Apple. They own TONS of patents that they've never used.
A better question is why won't Apple use its LQMT IP as a competitive advantage over its rivals. They paid for it, can obviously benefit from it (scratch resistance, molded unibody shape, undeniable coolness factor), so why not use it?? Maybe because once the patent expires, its competitors will have access to LQMT and can use it as well. Now this would be amazing for all of us. I'm more excited about the patent expiring than if or if not apple will use it.
Apple has a history of only using proprietary technologies in their products. So if Apple intended on using LQMT they would most likely acquire the company, not just rent the rights for a certain period of time. If apple was truly planning on using LQMT, then their pattern of buying technology for proprietary use is broken. Highly unlikely. This is why I'm of the belief that Apple bought the rights only to keep it out of competitors hands, knowing that they are already losing the edge in phone technology. I'm hoping once it expires, another cell phone manufacturer will pick it up and run with it.
Also, I'm looking into Apple-LQMT connections up to 2010 for possible sweetheart contract/ownership deals as part of my DD, I'm curious if anyone else has looked into the same and has had any leads?
Leaked iMac parts suggest Apple set to release new model with thinner design
"The new iMac will reportedly be considerably thinner than the current model, and the new shell design is said to be curved like a water droplet, rather than squared off....The report also reaffirmed earlier claims that the new iMac display will be attached to the protective cover glass, allowing the all-in-one desktop to be even thinner."
http://appleinsider.com/articles/12/10/14/leaked-imac-parts-suggest-apple-set-to-release-new-model-with-thinner-design
Curved like a water droplet...? Maybe a molded LQMT body component?
Where are our shares???
The company WE OWN sold off all of its assets in exchange for ownership in another company. We never got our end of the deal. They sold off our assets and we got nothing in return. This is criminal activity!
We should have got our ownership of great wall before the pump so we could have at least had a chance.
Wish I had some free cash to lower my avg. share price.
I tripled my position at .29 before apple in anticipation. Should have had more patience. Once it hits $1.00 I'll feel a lot better.
I'm cautiously optimistic.
We have always moved up and down on news(rumors) and also on lack of news(rumors).
Every time real news is released (not based on a rumor) we seem to get a nice gap up, if only for a few weeks.
Once some real revenues come out of the Materion salespeople that ends up on the income statement we will finally see sustainable gains. I definitely think this will happen.
I'm only 30, I have a long time to wait. :)
I don't mind a reverse split. If it gets us re-listed it will be worth it.
We are still the 2nd largest nat. gas producer in the US.
Massive inventory. When the price of Nat. Gas goes up this winter so will our PPS.
Supply and demand dictates the performance of commodity stocks such as this. We are still coming out of a very warm winter last year on top of the largest increase in domestic nat. gas production. Inventories were at an all time high and demand was relatively low. Naturally, the price will drop, but as weather gets colder, and we move into fall and winter, demand will increase, while CHK has scaled back its nat. gas production. I doubt this will correct the demand/supply levels from last year it will be the start of a positive trend for the price in nat gas, albeit a slow one in my opinion.
Good management of nat. gas purchasing and inventory has always been CHK's strength and strategy for growth. Oil prices will never go down, and nat gas I believe hit a bottom this summer.
Now is a great time to buy CHK. Their debt levels are high enough to prevent a buyout but manageable enough to ensure gradual growth.
my 1 yr price target for CHK is $29 with a eps growth rate of 5% y/y thru 2015.
I'm long baby. You should too.