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As I understand the warrants:
Holder can pay $11.50 in exchange for 1 share of NKLA stock, after the merger.
The warrant is good for 5 years, but if not exercised, could expire worthlessly.
If the merger does not take place, it may have no value. For this reason it is currently worth less than 1 share minus $11.50.
After the merger, the company can call for the warrants to be exercised if the stock price has been greater than $18 at the close of the market on 20 of the last 30 trading days.
A cashless exchange can occur, giving the warrant holder a portion of a share under certain circumstances, but I do not know what must occur in order for that exchange to take place.
As the company needs cash to build the company, I felt the cashless exchange had a low chance of occurrence.
If I am incorrect, please advise me.
If someone could explain what needs to occur for a cashless exercise of warrant, I would be grateful.
If there is anything material that I have left out, please fill us in. Thanks in advance.
Another consideration:
If the warrants are held in an IRA and you aren't able to contribute more money to the IRA at the time the warrant is called, then one would have to sell some warrants to get the cash into the account necessary to pay the $11.50.
However if it's cashless, this problem doesn't seem to exist.
Buyout
Since MSFT was so in love with S3D last year because S3D could do things that MSFT up to that time could not do, even after spending years and billions to do so, would it not be feasible to consider S3D a candidate for buyout?
If revenue from azure has been delayed, could this not be at least partially secondary to alternate plans MSFT may have for something they may want to complete their big picture?
MSFT's big picture of the future includes renting time, apps etc., and not selling things. It may be taking MSFT longer than they expected to make this shift, which seems huge, and be at least partially responsible for the slow growth of one of their little buddies, which may actually change the expectations of the S3D board, and allow the board to consider a buyout offer, for less than the billion, EK once said would not be entertained.
This potential is just another reason to at least continue to hold, if not buy.
In May, 2015, at MSFT tech center in Mountain View, California, I was 1 of <30 people present for the show, during which the MSFT exec stated "Going forward, S3D will be our most important, (or possibly he said strongest) partner."
I must admit, he could have said one of our most important partners. 7 months ago so, I may have forgotten the exact wording, but you get the idea. The enthusiasm in the room was palpable.
So haven't had to sell a share, slept well.
Everything since then has moved much slower than expected, but all in the right direction. Except for share price, and financing.
Building out the right global platform takes time.
Still seems that it will be the easiest and cheapest solution for most, and the only solution for some.
Just say'in.
yes
Going to the tech center road show.
As a non tech person, I am easily amazed and just watching a app store program get bought and run on my laptop would be enough for me; but,
what is the most amazing maneuver to ask to have demonstrated?
First ANY trade on E-trade yielded this report:
From Analysts Review.com
April 28, 2015
Concensus: BUY
Target: $10
Upside potential 175%
However they list the exchange as TSX, only 26 million shares, so not very in depth analysis; BUT,
they knew about the Microsoft Tech Center announcement, which must have nudged them to write this report, albeit too quickly.
Just sayin.
Lots of VMWare advertising around San Francisco
Received this email from VMWare -
Seems they are selling vSphere for us? or competing?
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What is the consequence for "failure to deliver"?
How much extra time may the shorts have to cover?
Will this squeeze go on for weeks?
As Sheldon isn't on the board, and owns 14%, has he asked about a seat on the board?
Is S3D allowing him to flail in the wind until they throw him a lifeline with the delisting?
Pinetree seems to have the most to gain and lose, but possibly Anson and it's ilk.
Is it true that an accounting of all shares bought and sold on the TSX.V will be required to close shop there? Or, do these brokerages have sister brokerages which can agree to continue with those short positions on the NASDAQ if they aren't naked?
Would those who want to maintain a short position be forced to buy shares, deliver to the appropriate brokerage and then re-instate the short position with another brokerage?
Within the last 2 weeks, on this board, someone stated the TSX rules don't allow the company to talk about contracts, only delivered items. e.g. The chrome book deal would be counted over several years as they are delivered. I can't confirm this, but if so, that may be the reason they only declared the$700,000, while signing contracts with various companies during the same period for many millions, . This would explain the absence of PR regarding the school deal.
No mention of Jacob's newest analysis on Yahoo, nor schwab websites, yet both have the Streetsweeper articles listed.
Schwab still, 17 days post upgrade to Nasdaq notes that ANY has changed TO Spihf and makes it harder to trade or believe because you have several more clicks to find it.
Doesn't it feel a little manipulated?
It seems these little things do shake shares free as 35,000 fell loose already.
So Apple is now significant enough in the business world to be catered to by IBM. But I thought the whole point of Sphere was to avoid the need to have a customized job. This makes me think that Apple doesn't know of Sphere's existence or doesn't trust they can get the job done. It was just June 27th I believe that a virtual guru wrote a piece about how valuable Sphere could be to Apple because they were behind in the cloud space. It seems to me IBM will spend a lot of energy reprogramming for Apple's operating system, (and selling them, I admit) when it appears a better, more inclusive solution is present but not chosen. I think very few IT guys know of Sphere's existence. Although sad, it's also hopeful, as we all seem to have embraced this project so early in it's history. Maybe this proves how much both companies should have this holy grail. Is this good news for Sphere? Or big companies working around the Solution, but not embracing it.