Penny stocks are the best (and the worst).....as I've been telling you for a couple of months now, you don't want to emotionally commit to one that is facing a hard outgoing tide. Polar - I will say this about you - you dig up all sorts of obscure data, and that's a sincere compliment. And that's an absolutely essential skill on penny stocks, esp. the bk ones. My only suggestion would to suppress the cognitive dissonance on your findings.