Kraig Biocraft Laboratories Inc (KBLB)

[golferman]

Lebbe1

Lebbe1 Tuesday, 06/06/17 10:30:20 AM
Re: None
Post # of 123167
End of CSC deal question replied by Ben, posted with his approval:

Since financing is always a key issue for a growing company, management is always looking at ways to improve that part of the business model. As you might imagine, due to the timing, management increased its focus on those activities, over the past year, and Kraig has more options than ever.

The financing agreement actually expires in a few weeks and management could renew the Calm Seas agreement, they may go with one of the other larger funding sources, or they could elect to go with a hybridized option.

What makes this funding different than others is the fact that the funding motivation, which, in the past, was on R&D, but this time it’s with both eyes focused on the potential Vietnamese production initiative.

In any case, we should be hearing more on these items, and others, in the coming weeks and months.

Best regards,

Ben Hansel
720.288.8495

What is a 'Hybrid Security'

A single financial security that combines two or more different financial instruments. Hybrid securities, often referred to as "hybrids," generally combine both debt and equity characteristics. The most common type of hybrid security is a convertible bond that has features of an ordinary bond but is heavily influenced by the price movements of the stock into which it is convertible.

BREAKING DOWN 'Hybrid Security'
Hybrid securities are bought and sold on an exchange, through a brokerage. Hybrids may give investors a fixed or floating rate of return, and may pay returns as interest or as dividends. Some hybrids return their face value to the holder when they mature, and some have tax advantages.

In addition to convertible bonds, another popular type of hybrid security is convertible preference shares, which pay dividends at a fixed or floating rate before common stock dividends are paid and can be exchanged for shares of the underlying company's stock.

Each type of hybrid security has unique risk and reward characteristics. Convertible bonds offer greater potential for appreciation than regular bonds, but pay less interest than conventional bonds, and still face the risk that the underlying company could perform poorly and fail to make coupon payments or not be able to repay the bond's face value at maturity. Convertible securities offer greater income potential than regular securities, but can still lose value if the underlying company underperforms. Other risks of hybrid securities include deferred interest payments, insolvency, market price volatility, early repayment and illiquidity.

New types of hybrid securities are being introduced all the time in an attempt to meet the needs of sophisticated investors . Some of these securities are so complicated that it is difficult to define them as either debt or equity. In addition to being difficult to understand, another criticism of some hybrid securities is that they require the investor to take more risk than the potential return warrants.