I do not mean to sound negative, but the central assumption you make is that this current share price of CCME makes it undervalued. The second assumption you make is to compare this situation to the financial crisis period, when ALL STOCKS were give little or no respect.
As to the first assumption, one must wonder at the ease with which this financial asset can be manipulated, i.e. have its price dramatically lowered. Yes it is a publicly traded stock, but due to the sector itself and the factors I highlighted in my original post, perhaps CCME and the cgs sector should be approached and valued dramatically different from other stock sectors. This is a very different world we live in than even 15 years ago, the pre-internet world. An asset who value can be so convincingly crushed via the internet and through a campaign of anonymous slander must be view as being worth dramatically less than other stocks. Unfortunately, although it poses as a stock, this internet market EMPHATICALLY DOES NOT LET IT BEHAVE LIKE ONE FROM A SHARE PRICE PERSPECTIVE. THIS IS THE REALITY WE ARE DEALING WITH. Retail investors went to this company in the hopes that its fundamental business and its blue chip features would protect it from the shorts, but alas, we have all been wrong. The market price is very clear about this. The shorts heard the message board a month ago, and they simply upped their ammunition, with the same results for them, outstanding results. The financial instrument we know as CCME seems very fragile indeed, and if so fragile, the share price not highly valued.
The conventional protections and weapons suggested by the other knowledgeable posters who have responded to my post are just that, conventional. It is quite unclear, without institutions charging into the stock, if these weapons will do much good. -- other than as a trade. And the vast majority of those who invest in this sector do not want to be traders. The want what at first glance would appear to be far undervalued assets. They want to buy and hold, buy and watch a small company grow. So many here have their own companies, are CPA's, and are quite successful in other endeavors. The ccme board is very sophisticated, but the shorts have shown they are far more powerful than conventional metrics and weapons.
We must all accept the fact that this Cintron guy has been doing this for years to other stocks, in other sectors, with total impunity, and now the copycat websites follow him, strengthening their approach to these small, foreign asset, foreign language companies in China. ONE WOULD THINK THERE ARE MORE COPYCATS TO COME WITH SUCH OUTSTANDING RESULTS.
I do not think the financial crisis analogy, i.e. that something happens and the markets will find value and bid up undervalued shares, has any relevance to the specific CGS growth sector problems. The weapons of the shorts are quite specific to this sector and these small companies. I see no reason whatsoever that their concentrated approach of internet lies, posing as being genuine but actually quite sophisticated in numerous ways, would NOT WORK IN OTHER SECTORS INVOLVING SMALL STOCKS, at least where specialized information is not truly needed, i.e. arcane technologies, for instance but who knows even here.
THE BOTTOM LINE IS VIRTUALLY EVERYBODY, MYSELF INCLUDED, ON THIS BOARD FELT CCME WAS IMMUNE WAS SHARE DESTRUCTION, AND WE WERE WRONG, to our severe financial detriment. Interested in any thoughts, and I do not mean to sound negative, but the bizzare conduct of stocks in this sector suggest a very different set of analogies and assumptions.
