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Stock has only been over .30 for a few weeks and yet you're comparing that narrow time window to a roughly 6-month span in 2013, duirng which time the stock was almost always over .30. Your comparison is very misleading don't you think? Give it a little time; you'll see the 20s again soon enough.
YGYI will be back in the 20s in no time flat. Rest assured.
K Cups are a joke. The caveats are as follows:
1. Just because YGYI has the ability to produce K cups doesn't mean that they are going to be able to capture a share of the already overcrowded K cup market from the existing big players in the coffee business.
2. K cups are an environmentally unfriendly way to make coffee, generating massive amounts of plastic landfill waste, and although they have enjoyed a surge in popularity until now, the growth is likely to stall as a result of bad PR (from several high-profile media sources) and increased consumer awareness.
3. In order to expand production, YGYI would have to invest in additional K cup manufacturing machines, and they have announced plans to do so. This will drastically cut into their bottom line and they may never be able to recoup that investment.
4. YGYI does not produce K cup coffee makers. The companies that do manufacture them have announced design changes that could make older K cup manufacturing machines, like the one YGYI bought, incompatible with newer coffee makers.
5. Although YGYI may be able to generate revenue from K cups, there's no indication that they can do so profitably. The more likely scenario is that their multi-level marketed snakeoil products like Tangy Tangerine will continue to be the main profit drivers, as paltry as that profit has been to date relative to the 400 million shares outstanding.
6. Although YGYI claims to own a coffee plantation in Nicaragua, it was admitted in the recent investor call that they have yet to harvest a single bean from their own plantation, and in fact the coffee that they have roasted to date has all been purchased from other non-YGYI owned plantations.
Perceptive comment tste9. You've hit the nail on the head.
Avon disavowed MLMs in 2014.
"Avon Products is leaving the trade association (the Direct Selling Association) it helped to found more than a century ago, writing in a letter to other member companies last week that the group's bylaws might not adequately protect consumers from fraud...Many multilevel-marketing companies have been accused of operating pyramid schemes over the past few decades, including Herbalife, a member of the association that sells nutritional products and herbal supplements.
Avon's departure suggests the historically lucrative and powerful firm is concerned about the public perception of its business and the possibility of broader regulatory action on multilevel marketing...In dropping out of the Direct Selling Association, Avon joins Tupperware, another iconic direct-sales brand that has become leery of the "direct sales" label. "We didn't leave direct selling," Tupperware chief executive officer Rick Goings told The Wall Street Journal last year. "Direct selling left us, because the industry became dominated by buying clubs and what looked like pyramid schemes."
HLF just spent that past year or so fighting pyrmaid scheme charges by the FTC. The stock got battered during that time.
You really couldn't have picked two worse examples to defend what YGYI is doing. But aside from these two high profile examples, the DSA is rife with lesser know MLMs (the bulk of their membership), most of which are blatant pyrmaid schemes selling blatantly fraudulent products.
MLM companies are so acutely aware of the negative public perceptions of MLM that they refuse to call themselves MLM companies, preferring instead to call themselves "direct selling" businesses, which is a deceptive misnomer.
MLMs have a deservedly horrid reputation and they are volatile risky enterprises, constantly facing the threat of either imploding under the weight of an unsustainable pyramid scheme, or being the target of prosecution by regulatory agencies and class action suits.
A sober-minded investor would never ignore such risks. YGYI's troll-pumpers do though, on purpose. Their M.O. is to sweep inconvenient facts like these under the rug because they are an obstacle to scamming people.
Be The Change Foundation sounds fishy. According to the details revealed in the investor presentation, the company has been using this so-called "charity" to fund food, housing, and infrastructure for the workers on their Nicaragua plantation. In other words, they're financing worker compensation at the expense of US taxpayers. That tax dodge appears to be illegal.
The charity's 2013 IRS990 filing indicates that it is headed up by all of YGYIs owners and executives, and that it only raised a few thousand dollars. Boggles the mind that they would mention this ridiculous operation in an investor presentation.
Also interesting was the revelation that they have not yet harvested any coffee from their own plantation but rather have been buying green coffee beans from other plantations. So much for their story about controlling everything from field to cup. It's not true, by their own admission.
YGYI will never capture market share from Keurig. That is the fundamental problem with your premise.
Who cares if they can produce K-cups? What matters is whether they can compete against the big players that already have the market locked up.
I've looked at the prices of YGYI's coffee offerings and they are priced so insanely high that the only reasonable assumption to make is that they are selling the junk to their own distributors. That's the name of the game for pyramid schemes like YGYI though right? A tiny fraction of revenue comes from sales to retail customers, while the bulk comes from internal consumption.
Briskie brings no news in that investor presentation announcement that Premiumjavacoffee re-posted.
1. K Cup machine -- old news; they announced this already in August 2014
2. Solaris -- a rinky dinky firm paid by YGYI
They're recycling old and trivial news.
Grover may or may not have sold his position in APHY before it tanked, but it doesn't really matter either way. Grover has no reputation to speak of, so it's silly for pumpers to tout his YGYI purchase has having some symbolic significance with respect to YGYI's future performance.
Grover is a complete unknown, and his track record with APHY, as a stand-alone example, shows that his picks go south in epic fashion.
The story with Grover and APHY is even worse than it appeared at first blush. Not only is APHY stock now trading at 6 cents a share, they just filed for bankruptcy.
Yup, great omen of what's ahead for YGYI.
Carl Grover bought shares and so what? Grover has no reputation to speak of. One of the only sources I found that even mentions his name are some 2012 SEC filings that indicate he was a beneficial shareholder of a pink-sheet company called Assured Pharmacy Inc (APHY). In 2012, APHY was oscillating between highs of about 95 cents and lows of about 25 cents. Today APHY is trading at 6 cents a share.
Rather than Grover's YGYI purchase being an omen of greater things to come, it could justifiably be interpreted as a harbinger of doom.
Pumpers should think twice before offering up meaningless deals like this to hype YGYI's stock -- some people actually dig into the details, and when they do, the findings are consistently unflattering.
You'd be smart to lock those gains in now if you can. There will be many more buying opportunities at much lower prices. Eventually, it will be a fire sale. Don't get caught holding the bag.
All cylinders??? All one of them? YGYI is a rusty lawnmower running against a field of high performance race cars.
I think that's a perfectly reasonable comment. SeeThru is a shady rinky dink operation that no serious investors will listen to. So yes, it is money down the drain. If YGYI were a more capable company, they would make their efforts to deceive investors much more compelling by ponying up for a crooked analyst firm that actually has some clout, but that's going to cost a lot more than $6500. Also, there's probably a limit to how far the big firms will go to prostitute themselves for their clients, and a garbage penny stock like YGYI just isn't worth the effort or embarrassment.
YGYI pays SeeThru $6500 for an investor presentation, and lo and behold, SeeThru gives them more misleading coverage and price targets, just like last year when YGYI paid SeeThru to present and then received favorable coverage and a price target that was missed by about a thousand miles.
http://www.seethruequity.com/#!become-a-pc/cvzb
Do you really think anyone is gullible enough to not see through this pumping scam?
YGYI pays SeeThru for its coverage. You know that already right? SeeThru, although aptly named (i.e., their lack of objectivity is painfully transparent) is less reliable than a broken clock.
Youngevity's troll pumpers are so funny!
"Right on. I gotta say I am excited about what has happened, in the last few weeks. I have no idea why the vol. increase hence PPS."
If you have no idea, then you shouldn't be excited. You should be highly skeptical, especially considering the stock's history. The PPS has been higher than this, very briefly, several times in the past few years, and it has always tanked thereafter. There isn't even the scantiest evidence to suggest that it's about to breakthrough.
"A few new people on this site with knowledge, of good things to come. I just hope it continues."
What new people? Looks like it's just the same company pumpers posting under multiple aliases, as usual. What news of good things to come did anyone here impart lately? It's just the same old tired-out fluff. Were you somehow unaware that they were making K-cups, even though it's ancient news?
Everyone with eyes and a brain can see how YGYI is stacking the deck, and even with that, there's no hope that they'll ever turn this dog of a stock into a winner.
And please don't come back raving about how this time it's going to .50, because the company's pumper minions sing that same old tired tune every year, and they've been wrong every time. A blind-folded monkey throwing darts at a dartboard would hit the mark more often.
Yes, keep 'em coming Rug. The entertainment value of your wildly off-target predictions never fails to amuse.
Pumper spamfest...beware!
Looks like YGYI has mobilized its pumper brigade (a couple of inept trolls) to try to generate some interest in this pitiful stock. Posts include such nebulous BS as "BIG NEWS COMING" (in all caps of course because shouting makes BS sound "truthier"). How pathetic!
You've got the bull for sure; the horns, not so much.
It's about to move higher because why? Because it's up a whole penny? And that means it's going to .35 and then to .40??? That's crazy talk. It's not going anywhere.
Race horse! Ha, that's a good one. It's more like a crippled old nag that's about to get taken behind the barn put out of its misery.
What news are you shouting about (BTW you can unlock your caps key any time now)? Surely you're not talking about the Direct Selling News BS, because that's not news.
Why pretend that YGYI is a coffee company? It's a dietary supplement pyramid scheme. That's where the bulk of the revenue has been and continues to be derived from -- Tangy Tangerine -- a ridiculous MLM product deceptively marketed as a wonder cure-all. That's a risky investment by anyone's reckoning. Pushing the false notion that YGYI is an an innocuous coffee company is like trying to dress a wolf in sheep's clothing.
Depressing for some perhaps, but there's no question that the dismal news about profits is true. It's detailed verbatim in their financial report -- $5.4 in net profit of which $4.7 million "was mostly attributable to valuation allowance adjustments relating to deferred taxes". Hence w/o the tax deferral, net profit would have been down from $2.7 million in 2013 to $700,000 in 2014.
Their business model is inherently unable to generate enough profit to impact the EPS because there's an astronomical 400 million shares outstanding and their cost of revenue (due to the MLM/pyramid scheme model) is way too high, eating up about two-thirds of gross profit. It's like trying to gather sand with a sieve.
YGYI reported net Income of $5.4 million compared to $2.7 million in the prior year. The increase in net income was "substantially due to a tax benefit of $4.7 million, which was mostly attributable to valuation allowance adjustments relating to deferred taxes".
So without the tax deferral, they actually generated substantially less profit ($700 K) compared to last year ($2.7 million).
It's not like reading tea leaves. The numbers are pretty simple to grasp.
Do you have brain damage? Of course they're going to exercise options at .19 when it's trading at .24-.25.
Worst pumpers EVER!
Zacks? Good reason to sell.
"6 new id's here. All saying to buy the stock.Where you guys come from and what is your purpose here?"
Are you not familiar with word troll? They are pretty easy to spot.
"Second chances don't come often in life but when they do you better hold this one real close and embrace it."
Hopefully, for the sake of your reputation, you're referring to stocks that actually have a significant chance of rewarding investors, and not this laughably inept pink-sheeter snakeoil pyramid scam.
A 50-cent price target for the next 2-3 months based on the Kazakhstan news? Are you out of you mind? There's no reason to expect that the stock price is going to double in 2-3 months.
You should say "I wish the PPS would double", rather than referring to it as a "target". It won't , but go ahead and wish away.
You probably said the same thing about YGYI's anemic rollout in Russia. How did that one pan out. Har!
Flakelife is Darth Vader in Drag!
Desperate much? Flailing about and making baseless accusations about my identity won't do anything for YGYI. It just makes you look desperate.
BTW, that post violated iHubs terms of service. But you don't have much respect for rules do you? Hence your avidity for plugging an idiotic snakeoil pyrmaid scheme penny stock like YGYI
"New Youngevity Website is Awesome! Youngevity.com"
Someone seems to be easily impressed. What about the website inspires to you feel awe? Or is it you just like hyperbole and using the word "awesome".
"How much of his own money has Briskie spent since August on YGYI stock?"
Why are you asking me? If you're curious, go read the SEC filings and add up the purchases yourself.
"Here is another mention of Zacks recommending to buy YGYI over coca cola today. Look bottom of article. AGAIN YOUNGEVITY HAS NOT PAID OR COMPENSATED ZACKS FOR THIS."
Why is Zach's recycling the same story about Coke/YGYI that they published 3 days ago? Now it's really looking suspect.
FYI, the article does not include any disclaimer about compensation, and it's a safe bet that there was some form of compensation involved. Otherwise, Zack's is just incompetent or straight up insane.
A one cent move from 22 cents to 23 cents is a mere 4.5%. You'd have to risk a greater than 20K investment to make $1K. The stock moves in low volumes so the PPS is highly vulnerable to selling pressure, and with a snakeoil pyrmaid scheme like this, there's always a good chance that the boom will drop and the stock will head south, leaving short-term traders holding the bag.
It's not impossible to make some chump change trading YGYI short-term, but it's unnecessarily risky, and this is a far cry from touting YGYI as a reasonable long-term investment, which it clearly isn't.
Of the myriad stocks that one can speculate on, there's no reason to fixate on YGYI. The only reason that some people here do so is that they're YGYI distributors, not real investors, and they're stuck because they exercised poor judgment.
So far today the stock price has varied by a mere penny. How is that a buying opportunity?
I'm not here to answer personal questions. I'm here to talk about YGYI. Think you can get back on topic or is the idea of talking about the company and its stock just too depressing for you?