1. Because it's a clear plastic bag filled with gas to preserve a disposable product. It costs roughly 15 cents for the bag unless there's some huge discount with volume that brings it down to 10 cents. It has value to a producer of filled petri plates dependent upon the benefit it brings for agar preservation and shelf life. Some agars will benefit with no refrigeration and others won't.
2. Yes. Notice the word "overhead".
3. Really? Which companies produce nothing, and have one or two products that can potentially be licensed?
4. PLUG is not relevant to this discussion.
5. We will see how much it matters
Stock price is dependent upon public notice. As for what you posted earlier stating that the stock price doesn't matter to the CEO, my understanding from others is that he has repeatedly said that the company is not run based upon share price, not that the share price does not matter
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