This specialist manipulation rhetoric is pure nonsense. It's nothing more than a smoke screen to obfuscate the remarkable lack of communication and poor expectation setting by management. I am long 76K shares and obviously have a vested interest in seeing the stock rise. Unfortunately, I don't see that happening until management starts to communicate directly, set reasonable expectations, then consistently achieve/overachieve them. Filling the heads of a handful of brokers with overly optimistic and speculative information, then having those brokers disseminate that material to clients who are anxious to believe anything positive, is no way to manage an investor base. People are largely convinced that the technology addresses a need and that the market is substantial. It is the gross lack of confidence in management that is the biggest drag on the stock.
The specialist and Think Equity's of the world are not the problem. A deft management team would be able to finess each of those situations. Frankly, I haven't seen anything from Think Equity that isn't a legitimate, if not biased opinion (just as my and other longs' opinions are biased).
Let's spend less collective energy enabling management's continued mis/non-comminication and excuse making, and more energy pressuring them to share the facts and establish a pattern of expectation setting that builds investor and analyst confidence.
