Lets Talk ALPP Business 101
It seems apparent to me that some people do not understand incorporating a net loss in a business entity's first few years of operation. If you have ever taken a basic business class or been an entrepreneur you would know you have to incur a loss before making anything. Alpine (Kent specifically) has done a fantastic job at growing revenues year over year while simultaneously keeping the net incurred loss really low. Some big board stocks incur BILLIONS in losses before even turning a cent in profit, but you know what happens when they turn profit? Debt gets paid off, dividends start getting paid, shares get bought back etc. ALPP is well on its way to turning a profit per financials, and this 10-k coming up may well be our turning point. Now why would a company have to give stock to employees? Another simple lesson from researching any company ever. How do you attract employees with high levels of qualifications when you are just starting? Easy: Stock. It's the only resource available, and ALPP did more than a fine job because we only have an AS of 125 million, tons lower than most big boards out there!
Lets talk the financing deal stated in the S-1.
This money will be used to pay off debt that ALPP has incurred over its first few years of operation. This is honestly the deal of a lifetime, 10 million dollars for a specified amount of shares. Can anyone link or name a better financing deal ever? While keeping the AS low, and not diluting the stock more than needed (cough @ all the biotechs that do direct offerings for 20-30-40 millions of shares for less money!!!) ALPP will be able to clean up the balance sheet and turn a new leaf into positive territory. This kind of stock deal that is this good rarely comes into fruition, I wonder why! Imagine this now though too, all of these big boards needing bailouts from the government taking loans etc, ALPP didn't need that. ALPP is doing a great job of keeping cash flowing so they DONT NEED HANDOUTS.
Hats off to Kent and the ALPP team for doing a fantastic job!
