I have been considering picking up a position in NEWC again recently, but have been reluctant to do so primarily because I don't get a very "comfortable" feeling with the management of this company. While I agree that sector/industry/market conditions can and have made things difficult for a number of companies, I think retail investors in NEWC have every right to be more than a little annoyed/irritated with John Campo.
IMO, the CEO of this company has been doing an inadequate job of disclosing important information related to the financing and fully-diluted share structure of this company. Unless I completely missed something, the recently-released 2013 10-K contained no references/mentions of any kind regarding the coffee, African palm tree, and road building material businesses that have been prominently featured in press releases during the last 6+ months. The acquisition of the coffee business occurred during January, but there has been no filing or press release disclosing the terms of the acquisition.
I think Campo needs to provide a much clearer picture of what NEWC looks like from a fully-diluted share structure standpoint. Depending on the various interactions of the preferred shares and the potentially ugly financing instruments that now exist, the fully-diluted share structure is likely significantly higher than what most people probably think.
Part of what made NEWC an attractive investment back in late 2012 and early 2013 was the fact that Campo had taken some action on the floorless convertible debt that was depressing the share price. IMO, much of that goodwill he generated has now been pretty much flushed down the toilet because it appears he has gone right back to using floorless convertible instruments (based on information in the 2013 10-K).......
The combination of this recent floorless convertible, floorless warrants issued during 2013, and the $555K debt that NEWC has on its books (matures in October 2014, and has a floorless feature) could cause significant additional pressure on the stock unless management counteracts it.
Correction: the whole mining industry is turning to POT. See today's news. NEWC will rise again.
We got coal, we got organic Coffee trees growing and now we going to be selling medical POT. We have signed a documented authority on POT and I liked the part about the governments investments in their country to spur growth and its working.