The A/S is the Authorized Share number that the Company and Board of directors and majority share holders (with majority voting rights) sets as the allowed number of shares that could be issued. This is the number that is informed to the state that each company is incorporated in. For example if Thresher is a Delaware corporation, you can go on the state of Delaware's website and monitor to make sure that the company does not raise the A/S without notifying share holders. Which is usually a bad sign. To change the A/S each company has to contact their states Division of Corporations to change that number.
The O/S is the actual outstanding share number. This is the number that the company has issued to the investment public. So for example if Thresher has a current market cap of $10 Million. You would come to that number by multiplying the share price which would be $.01 in this instance by the number of outstanding shares of 1 Billion. Now if Thresher issued 4 Billion more out onto the investing public without the public knowing trying to raise more cash, then theoretically the market cap should stay at $10 Million but your shares would no longer be worth $.01. They would now be worth $.002
This is the reason it threw a red flag up for me. Now I hope I am wrong, but we will see on Monday. If the PR is true and Thresher is supplying all this material and product to Cooper then at 1.4 Billion shares, it is very feasible that this could run to 10 times or more the current share price. For this to be a 10 bagger from here, this would need to trade at $.0044 which with 1.4 Billion shares outstanding would create a $6,160,000 market cap value of the company. Not a stretch and probably very very likely!
However, my concern, if the numbers the TA gave me are true, then at 8.7 Billion shares Outanding for this to be a 10 bagger and trade up to .0044 then that would mean the market values this company with a $38,280,000 Market cap. It will be extremely tough for this to get that high, because there are so many shares out there with investors that are willing to sell shares with every single uptick in price. In turn causing downward pressure on the stock price.
This is just my opinion so please don't shoot the messenger.
Ryan
