Everybody has price. If a company offers EPGL .88 a share, (4.4 billion dollars) you can bet your butt EPGL would be sold before you can blink. I would gladly take .88p/s for my shares. Then use those funds to invest in the company that bought EPGL. Imagine that. For me, having millions of dollars to invest in major giant that just landed EPGL's tech. To be able to move that money into a established major player, that has a ton of liquidity, dividends, etc.
Facts are, the big companies such as Apple, Google, Siemens, Intel, Cooper Companies, Samsung, Cisco, etc, etc simply will not allow a smaller company such as EPGL to exist.
They won't risk the possibility of EPGL deciding to sell to a rival.
Also, they won't want EPGL to operate on it's own because EPGL could potentially do huge deals with their competition.
It comes down to industry politics.
The mentality of these billion dollar giants is that this is their realm. Their world. They want all the power. All the market share. Its exactly like the oil & gas industry. As much as you would like EPGL to thrive on it's own, with the politics of it all, it just won't be allowed to. EPGL will essentially be absorbed as one billion dollar giants new R&D department. You think one of those companies is going to sit around and pay royalties to EPGL? Not a chance. In their mind, they want all the profits! All the money! They don't share nicely! Its how they became billion dollar companies in the first place. They will look at EPGL with contempt, having to pay them for their work. Money that should be going in their accounts not EPGL's. Money they should be reporting to their shareholders! Showing how great they are! The CEO's getting their bonus and re-elected to the BOD! Its a combination of ego and business sense.
The IoT/Wearable Tech is going to become a cutthroat arena in the tech world. All major shifts like what we are starting to go through, is going to be catastrophic for some big companies out there that fail to adapt their business to what will be the new normal. These companies are currently in a race for their survival. A very quiet race. Look what happened to Blockbuster, Hollywood Video, etc. when they failed to make the shift early enough to digital video. BK! Netflix made the shift. Look at them now. Once on the bottom, now at the top. Or Kodak failing to shift their business from film to digital in time. These were industry giants in their genre. The same thing will happen with current tech companies that don't capitalize NOW on the emerging IoT/Wearable tech realm. There will be huge company casualties.
Billion dollar companies will be fighting tooth and nail to get the tech they need to survive. And EPGL has them all by the balls. These companies need EPGL's piezoelectric / flexible substrate technology to make their products work! RF power just isn't going to cut it. Just ask Google how they tripped coming out the gate. Whoever lands EPGL, gets to bathe in the fountain of youth and be the new king of the hill in the tech world.
Alright, that was kinda dramatic. But it is the reality of the situation. EPGL will not be able to exist on its own in the land of billion dollar giants. And I doubt that they really want to. A buyout stands to make EPGL insiders wealthy beyond their wildest dreams. And a vast number of long term investors with millions of shares will be pretty comfortable as well.
A buyout is inevitable and the most logical scenario.
