Showing posts with label Motley Fool. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Motley Fool. Show all posts

Friday, December 22, 2006

Motley Fool crusade against Altair

Motley Fool did it again to Altair!... Such a systematic punishment - see our post "Why the Fools?..." of December 4, 2006... - can no longer be viewed as simple and pure harshness of analysis.

In the previous commentary, on August 24 2006, Jack Uldrich has pinpoint:

"The company only has about $14 million in cash on hand, and with a current burn rate of slightly more than $1 million a month, Gotcher must begin delivering within the next year." [bold ours]

"(...) the company had raised an additional $23 million by offering 9.3 million shares at $2.70 apiece. This news, too, can be read a couple of different ways.
It might be good news to some, because it suggests that the company is on schedule to begin mass-producing its latest nanotechnology-related product -- its lithium-ion battery technology -- and needs money to ramp up for that purpose. For others, it could easily be viewed as the latest in a long line of management's attempts to bilk unsuspecting investors with the promise of a breakthrough technology.
Where do I land? Count me in the skeptical camp (...). Altair has been promising results for five years now, with nothing to show for it. Furthermore, for a company with paltry revenue, its stock -- even in its newly diluted state -- remains ridiculously expensive." [bold ours]

The future - the ultimate judge - will prove commercially viable products and financial results or that Jack Uldrich/Motley Fool crusade is right... I trust Altair.


Disclaimer: I own shares of Altair.

Monday, December 4, 2006

Why the Fools?...

Why does Motley Fool continues to punish Altair Nanotechnologies?!... Over and over again, when Altair Nanotechnologies reaches some milestone in its electric batteries program, Motley Fool appears to cool Altair quotes increase.

Is the "strict disclosure policy" of Motley Fool, and its employees, also enforced to other preference and bias than the ownership of stocks? Why is this criticism of Altair development again simultaneous to the praising of promises of A123Systems and also of Valence?...

"Yes, but...". Jack Uldrich states that Altair has already integrated the potential revenue into the stocks price; that raises doubts about the recharger, that you have to wait for the orders, that the batteries can explode!...

Why all these systematic buts whenever Altair stocks performs well?...


Disclaimer: I own stocks of Altair.