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March 14th, 2016 at 4:34:36 PM permalink
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I don't understand how NTGL can go up today 41% when they have no Staff. That's in addition to never selling anything and having no cash.

What am I missing?


ZCore13



It sounds like you might need a better general understanding of how markets work. The closing price of the stock is just what the last trade went off at. In the penny stock arena it is not uncommon for us to have an understanding that I will put X shares up for sale right before closing at price Y. You agree to buy them for that price and as long as noone else makes a trade price Y will be what the current stock price is listed at.

Example: Both you and I have many shares of NTGL. I tell you that at 3:58pm I am going to list 5 shares of stock for $1 each. You log on and buy 5 shares of stock at 3:59pmfor $1. If no one else buys stock before closing NTGL is going to show a stock price of $1 until someone buys shares the next day. The perception is now that the stock went way up and the pump and dump firms will be calling everybody that night telling them about this hot stock and they should buy some.
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March 14th, 2016 at 4:39:01 PM permalink
Quote: DRich

It sounds like you might need a better general understanding of how markets work. The closing price of the stock is just what the last trade went off at. In the penny stock arena it is not uncommon for us to have an understanding that I will put X shares up for sale right before closing at price Y. You agree to buy them for that price and as long as noone else makes a trade price Y will be what the current stock price is listed at.

Example: Both you and I have many shares of NTGL. I tell you that at 3:58pm I am going to list 5 shares of stock for $1 each. You log on and buy 5 shares of stock at 3:59pmfor $1. If no one else buys stock before closing NTGL is going to show a stock price of $1 until someone buys shares the next day. The perception is now that the stock went way up and the pump and dump firms will be calling everybody that night telling them about this hot stock and they should buy some.



Yeah, I have no clue about this stuff. For everything I've seen and learned recently, it seems like a good majority of penny stocks are "shaky" in terms of legitimacy, to say the least. I guess when you can pick up 50,000 shares for $500 there's always someone with more money then they know what to do with willing to take a chance as well.

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March 14th, 2016 at 4:47:38 PM permalink
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It sounds like you might need a better general understanding of how markets work....



I could use a better understanding too. Let's say the fair price of a share is $1. Suppose two people who want to drive up the price agree to this scheme to sell one share for $1.40 a minute before closing. However, wouldn't there be a bunch of people with "sell at" orders for a little over $1, which would take priority? I think a fair way to set a "fair price" as the average of the highest "buy at" and lowest "sell at" orders if there isn't a lot of volume.

For example, at Betfair, you can buy Hilary to be president at 1.58 and sell it at 1.59. So, I'd call the fair price 1.585.
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March 14th, 2016 at 6:10:33 PM permalink
Quote: Wizard

I could use a better understanding too. Let's say the fair price of a share is $1. Suppose two people who want to drive up the price agree to this scheme to sell one share for $1.40 a minute before closing. However, wouldn't there be a bunch of people with "sell at" orders for a little over $1, which would take priority? I think a fair way to set a "fair price" as the average of the highest "buy at" and lowest "sell at" orders if there isn't a lot of volume.

For example, at Betfair, you can buy Hilary to be president at 1.58 and sell it at 1.59. So, I'd call the fair price 1.585.



You are correct in your thinking but the number of owners of these stocks is very low, I wouldn't be surprsied if a lot of these stocks are owned by less than 100 people. With so few owners there is not much liquidity and the market makers can manipulate the prices.

Other than company insiders most of the stock is owned by the market makers and they are not not really investors. Their goal is to constantly buy and sell shares because they charge either a commission or they set the spread between they buy and the sell price such that they make the difference between the two. An example would be setting the ask price at $1.65 and the bid price at $1.55. They would expect to make 10 cents for every share they buy and sell.
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March 15th, 2016 at 6:53:47 AM permalink
Thank you.

I believe something is worth what you can get somebody else to pay for it. That said, if somebody wanted to sell 1,000,000 shares of NTEK, how would he do it and what would he get?
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March 15th, 2016 at 7:07:03 AM permalink
Quote: Wizard

Thank you.

That said, if somebody wanted to sell 1,000,000 shares of NTEK, how would he do it and what would he get?



A 3 day visit to the psych ward for the buyer.


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March 15th, 2016 at 7:43:00 AM permalink
Quote: Wizard

Thank you.

I believe something is worth what you can get somebody else to pay for it. That said, if somebody wanted to sell 1,000,000 shares of NTEK, how would he do it and what would he get?


sigh.. I still have 5k shares @.10/share :(

I guess sell now and take the easy tax loss vs ntek going bankrupt and complicated tax filings?
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March 15th, 2016 at 8:37:52 AM permalink
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I don't understand how NTGL can go up today 41% when they have no Staff. That's in addition to never selling anything and having no cash.

What am I missing?



There were only about $5k in total trades for the entire day. Illiquid stocks are very easy to manipulate if one holds a ton of shares. Insiders hold the vast majority of free-trading stock in NTGL.

I expect an announcement of a totally new company moving into the NTGL shell any day now.
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March 15th, 2016 at 8:46:27 AM permalink
I've been trying to think of a good gambling analogy that'll make readers here understand these insider-enrichment schemes.

Imagine a live Hold'em table at a Casino. If you control 9 of the 10 seats it wouldn't be very hard to wipe out that 10th person at the table - especially if they weren't aware that the same person was playing the other 9 hands and coordinating the betting against them. They might even let that 10th man win a few hands to keep him putting more money in.

That's the OTC (aka Penny Stocks).
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March 15th, 2016 at 8:46:50 AM permalink
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I guess sell now and take the easy tax loss vs ntek going bankrupt and complicated tax filings?



I once had a lot of stock in this PoS company: XPDR. It just faded away. I still don't understand what happened but it was like everybody who worked there was either fired or just walked away.

Anyway, for my taxes I put down an arbitrary "sell" date, roughly around when the stock quit trading, and a sell price of zero. The IRS never questioned it.
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March 15th, 2016 at 8:47:44 AM permalink
I think stock is better
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March 15th, 2016 at 9:01:06 AM permalink
Quote: Wizard

I once had a lot of stock in this PoS company: XPDR. It just faded away. I still don't understand what happened but it was like everybody who worked there was either fired or just walked away.



I just briefly glanced at it but it appears they went dark in 2001 (meaning they stopped reporting to the SEC). Those end up being called zombie tickers that still trade although no information is available - generally the people behind them close up shop without filing bankruptcy (just walk away).

For years there was a huge problem with unscrupulous people hijacking such dormant shells and then issuing themselves tons of fresh stock to dump on the market off of false new made-up hype they spew on the internet. It still happens today.

I don't know if XPDR was one of those (didn't look that close) but they were suspended by the SEC in one of the few mass-crackdowns they had on such dormant shells. XPDR was suspended in May 2012 in a single action targeting 379 such companies:

www.sec.gov/litigation/suspensions/2012/34-66980.pdf

"The Commission temporarily suspended trading in these securities because of questions that have been raised about the accuracy and adequacy of publicly disseminated information concerning the companies’ operating status, if any."

NOTE: don't be confused by "temporary". A 'temporary" suspension by the SEC of an OTC issuer is the end, as no Market Maker can publish quotes on it.
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March 15th, 2016 at 3:07:20 PM permalink
Quote: Skeptic

I just briefly glanced at it ...



Thanks for looking into it. A lot of that I didn't know. In the case of XPDR, I don't think anybody hijacked the company but they probably quit filing reports to the SEC because everybody jumped the ship and there was nobody to do it.
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March 17th, 2016 at 1:06:49 PM permalink
Why does a company that has no sales,
no inventory, no staff, why does the
stock keep going up? Every time you
call, no matter the time of day, it goes
straight to a private voice mail account.
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March 17th, 2016 at 1:31:37 PM permalink
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March 17th, 2016 at 2:50:43 PM permalink
Illiquid stocks are pretty easy to manipulate, especially when you issue yourself 1 billion shares in the past year.
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March 17th, 2016 at 3:05:39 PM permalink
So damn confusing. Could thr following happen?
Current price is $1
I have 1 million shares
A friend of mine has 1 million shares

I buy 10000 of his for $5 each right before the final bell. Are my shares now worth $5. I then sell them and make profit, or I guess there has to be someone to buy them or is that what the wolf on Wallstreet stuff is about?

Sigh, I should just go back to not trying to figure it out.
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March 17th, 2016 at 3:32:16 PM permalink
Quote: GWAE

So damn confusing. Could thr following happen?
Current price is $1
I have 1 million shares
A friend of mine has 1 million shares

I buy 10000 of his for $5 each right before the final bell. Are my shares now worth $5. I then sell them and make profit, or I guess there has to be someone to buy them or is that what the wolf on Wallstreet stuff is about?

Sigh, I should just go back to not trying to figure it out.



I think you just figured it out. It is only worth what someone is will to pay you when you sell. BTW, your buddy just made $40,000 off of you.
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March 17th, 2016 at 3:38:21 PM permalink
Ahigh Is currently helping the homeless. I think he is just fine. I think he will be just fine.
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March 17th, 2016 at 4:55:56 PM permalink
Now that he's out of NTGL, he would have no perceived conflict of interest which would prevent him from freely posting here.
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March 17th, 2016 at 5:34:04 PM permalink
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Ahigh Is currently helping the homeless. I think he is just fine. I think he will be just fine.



He was also proving dice control and changing the casino world. Any chance you want to buy some of my land in Florida? It comes with water features and outdoor pets free.


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March 17th, 2016 at 6:11:00 PM permalink
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Now that he's out of NTGL, he would have no perceived conflict of interest which would prevent him from freely posting here.



He is three months into a one-year self suspension. So, no, he can't return until he does his time.
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March 17th, 2016 at 7:38:24 PM permalink
Oh.

Well then, would he be welcome at WoVCon?

He's attended before.

For that matter, is there a policy as to whether banned or suspended members would be welcome to attend?

Sort of a "Walking Dead" thing.
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March 17th, 2016 at 9:00:04 PM permalink
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Oh.

Well then, would he be welcome at WoVCon?

He's attended before.

For that matter, is there a policy as to whether banned or suspended members would be welcome to attend?

Sort of a "Walking Dead" thing.

And what if a banned member did show up? Do they get double nuked? Or do you all attack them with calculators and pocket protectors?
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March 17th, 2016 at 10:00:27 PM permalink
I'm curious as to how a WoV ban could ever possibly extend to prohibiting someone from being at a public place. That being said, individual Members would certainly have the right to decide whether or not they actually want to speak to the person. I'm actually looking forward to hanging out with AHigh one of these years, we were supposed to on my last Vegas trip, but plans fell through on my end the first day and on his end the day we'd rescheduled for, as I recall. That might not be right, though.
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March 17th, 2016 at 10:06:11 PM permalink
I believe the legal way to handle someone showing up to an event that is banned is that during the trivia portion, anytime that person answers a question, you just pretend like you didn't hear it, even if it was right. And then during the Red Rover game, vverybody plays jusr like normal, but nobody ever calls the banned person's name to come right over.

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March 17th, 2016 at 10:08:57 PM permalink
I could see where a Banned Member might effectively be excluded from any Forum-Related prize games.
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March 17th, 2016 at 11:25:32 PM permalink
Quote: Mission146

I'm curious as to how a WoV ban could ever possibly extend to prohibiting someone from being at a public place. That being said, individual Members would certainly have the right to decide whether or not they actually want to speak to the person. I'm actually looking forward to hanging out with AHigh one of these years, we were supposed to on my last Vegas trip, but plans fell through on my end the first day and on his end the day we'd rescheduled for, as I recall. That might not be right, though.

Wouldn't that be a hoot.
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March 17th, 2016 at 11:45:01 PM permalink
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Oh.

Well then, would he be welcome at WoVCon?

He's attended before.



Sure. I'd be happy to have him.

Quote:

For that matter, is there a policy as to whether banned or suspended members would be welcome to attend?

Sort of a "Walking Dead" thing.



It would depend on the particular person. Ultimately, I can't say somebody can't show up to a public place, but some banned members I'd be happy to see but most I wouldn't.
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March 18th, 2016 at 1:03:09 AM permalink
Quote: Wizard

Sure. I'd be happy to have him.



It would depend on the particular person. Ultimately, I can't say somebody can't show up to a public place, but some banned members I'd be happy to see but most I wouldn't.



The guys you wouldn't want to see are probably basement dwellers who never actually go anywhere in the first place.
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March 18th, 2016 at 9:13:08 AM permalink
Quote: Wizard

It would depend on the particular person. Ultimately, I can't say somebody can't show up to a public place, but some banned members I'd be happy to see but most I wouldn't.


I'll let Mickey know when/where your next WoVcon is :)
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March 18th, 2016 at 9:15:53 AM permalink
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The guys you wouldn't want to see are probably basement dwellers who never actually go anywhere in the first place.


hey, I'm frequently in a poker room or in front of a video poker machine trying to make the next level of Diamond.
oh.. same thing
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March 18th, 2016 at 10:38:53 AM permalink
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Well then, would he be welcome at WoVCon?

He's attended before.


Yes, Ahigh has joined us for several past gatherings and has been a welcome addition to the group. At that time, he was having some on-forum conflicts with some members, but I don't recall it having to do with his employment/position. In-person, there was no conflict at all -- he even brought his son along to a couple of meals. I hope he does join us again this year.

At the craps table, he really seems to enjoy agitating the dealers, putting them through their paces, but he is just fine with the other players.
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March 18th, 2016 at 4:12:46 PM permalink
Speaking of red rover- wonder what is happening to guys at Vegas rover maybe they will show up at the wov get together
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March 21st, 2016 at 3:24:40 PM permalink
I just noticed something that made me laugh, but maybe I don't understand "Market Cap" completely...

NTGL has a market cap of about 5.45 million dollars. GLXZ (Galaxy Gaming) has a market cap of 9.07 million.

NTGL has never sold a product to a casino and is not licensed to distribute their product in any State (as far as I know). GLXZ is the 2nd largest table games distributor in the world and has shown increasing profits every year (and just about every quarter) for multiple years in a row.

But somehow NTGL total stock is worth over 55% of what GLXZ is. How is that possible? Is NTGL all just hype from word of mouth from their employees and crooked stock brokers?


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March 21st, 2016 at 3:31:10 PM permalink
Quote: Zcore13

I just noticed something that made me laugh, but maybe I don't understand "Market Cap" completely...

NTGL has a market cap of about 5.45 million dollars. GLXZ (Galaxy Gaming) has a market cap of 9.07 million.



I've commented on this before, but when the market cap was about 9 million. It makes me wonder if the current stock price is an accurate indicator of is value. If one thinks it is overvalued, is it possible to short it?
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March 21st, 2016 at 6:23:23 PM permalink
I don't know much at all about the market for proprietary table games (pretty much nada) but if Galaxy is the 2nd largest such enterprise then that business must not amount to much of anything. Glancing at their most recent income statement, I see their total revenue (gross receipts) for 2014 was less than ten million. There are neighborhood convenience stores grossing more than 10m. And at 22k their "net income from continuing operations" for that year was down to less than what a member of this forum just spent on a used car.

About shorting this: probably very hard to do (usually not possible) with something this thinly traded. I see today the total value of all activity was less than $1,300. If it was possible, something so illiquid as this would also be an extraordinarily high-risk short sale, even assuming perfect knowledge of company internals and absolute prescience on the correct long term value, because it would be so easy to get caught in a "short squeeze" from a meaningless temporary blip that wipes you out (or for someone who hates you to create one overnight without breaking a sweat or a piggy bank). "A market can be irrational longer than you can remain solvent."

Are you sure about a prior market cap of 9b for this? I didn't spend much time looking very hard at all, but in the historical (split adjusted) price history I looked at I didn't find anything that would get it anywhere near there, or even within shouting distance of a hundredth of that. But I have never followed this closely or spent any meaningful time looking into it, so I could easily be missing something. Right now 9b would be more than a fifth as much as the market valuation of LVS, the biggest casino company on the planet, and I agree that would have to be ludicrously overvalued regardless of how enthusiastic someone ever was about this and their potential. If insiders controlled most of the shares at that valuation they could've used them to swallow up effective control of Sands or Wynn or MGM in a hostile takeover. Not that I'm saying there's anything wrong with that. A furry kitty-cat suit like something I think I saw earlier in this thread a while back might not be such a bad idea for dressing up the naked exterior of a place that always looked to me like a giant UPS mother ship that's expecting to have lotsa little brown airborne vans buzzing around it. And conversion to a giant pinball machine could be a fine ending for the mess that was supposed to become The Harmon at City Center.
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March 21st, 2016 at 6:55:06 PM permalink
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I don't know much at all about the market for proprietary table games (pretty much nada) but if Galaxy is the 2nd largest such enterprise then that business must not amount to much of anything. Glancing at their most recent income statement, I see their total revenue (gross receipts) for 2014 was less than ten million. There are neighborhood convenience stores grossing more than 10m. And at 22k their "net income from continuing operations" for that year was down to less than what a member of this forum just spent on a used car.


Galaxy generated $2.3M of cash from operations for the 9 months ended 9/30/15...the neighborhood convenience store comes no where near that level of cash flow. Unfortunately the vast majority of that cash flow has gone to service debt since the Prime Table Games acquisition. The question is will the cash flow generated by Galaxy be sufficient to make the required Prime Table Games debt payments over the next three years and/or can they refinance said debt under more favorable cash flow terms. I believe they will accomplish one or both of those between now and the end of 2018.
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March 21st, 2016 at 8:42:23 PM permalink
Quote: Paradigm

Galaxy generated $2.3M of cash from operations for the 9 months ended 9/30/15...the neighborhood convenience store comes no where near that level of cash flow. Unfortunately the vast majority of that cash flow has gone to service debt since the Prime Table Games acquisition. The question is will the cash flow generated by Galaxy be sufficient to make the required Prime Table Games debt payments over the next three years and/or can they refinance said debt under more favorable cash flow terms. I believe they will accomplish one or both of those between now and the end of 2018.



Actually assuming the "neighborhood C-Store" sells gas, they blow this number away. You are only looking at 55K a week in inside sales and most chain store do this in business without fuel sales. Cigarettes alone make up a majority of this number.

As for the Galaxy cash flow numbers, I have no clue, but you would be shocked at how much cash comes into your local C-Store.
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March 21st, 2016 at 8:57:33 PM permalink
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As for the Galaxy cash flow numbers, I have no clue, but you would be shocked at how much cash comes into your local C-Store.



There's a C store near me that has 10 pumps, 3
cashiers there 12 hours, 2 cashiers the other 12.
Walk in beer cooler, hard liquor sales, huge
snack aisle that is constantly restocked, couple
of grocery aisles. Busy every time I go there,
even at night. If they aren't doing north of
40K-50K a day, something is wrong. People
laugh at the Quickie Mart guy on the Simpsons,
but those guys buy a new Mercedes every
two years.
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March 21st, 2016 at 9:16:13 PM permalink
Okay, thanks for the information & clarification; I have no doubt you're a lot more conversant with the company's financials than I am & you'll get no quibble from me on that. Wouldn't be the first or last time an enterprise was doing well on operations but was impeded for a time by balance sheet & debt service issues. But, 2.3M/9mos cash flow from operations is still a fairly small business, at about 10x the average for a single stand alone McDonald's burger joint franchise. Small businesses that are successful at generating cash from operations are very fine things, and I'd be happy to consider investing in suchlike if it was something I was confident I knew well, just mentioning that for perspective. Of course for that metric, that still makes their cash generated from operations x(infinity) larger than the thread topic company.
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Galaxy generated $2.3M of cash from operations for the 9 months ended 9/30/15...the neighborhood convenience store comes no where near that level of cash flow. Unfortunately the vast majority of that cash flow has gone to service debt since the Prime Table Games acquisition. The question is will the cash flow generated by Galaxy be sufficient to make the required Prime Table Games debt payments over the next three years and/or can they refinance said debt under more favorable cash flow terms. I believe they will accomplish one or both of those between now and the end of 2018.

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March 21st, 2016 at 9:22:25 PM permalink
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Are you sure about a prior market cap of 9b for this?



Sorry, I meant 9m.
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March 21st, 2016 at 9:30:34 PM permalink
Well dognabbit. I was really warming up to that cat suit idea for the Wynn/Encore towers.
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March 21st, 2016 at 9:41:08 PM permalink
Quote: Paradigm

Galaxy generated $2.3M of cash from operations for the 9 months ended 9/30/15...the neighborhood convenience store comes no where near that level of cash flow. Unfortunately the vast majority of that cash flow has gone to service debt since the Prime Table Games acquisition. The question is will the cash flow generated by Galaxy be sufficient to make the required Prime Table Games debt payments over the next three years and/or can they refinance said debt under more favorable cash flow terms. I believe they will accomplish one or both of those between now and the end of 2018.

They're making some headway on getting the debt ratio down, but >80% is still pretty high. Even before the PTG buyout they were high:

GLXZ balance sheet chart


And then there's DEQ. They have no debt but over $20M in accumulated deficit...

DEQ balance sheet chart


Either way, total assets are going down for both firms.
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March 22nd, 2016 at 2:02:27 PM permalink
Just FYI for those who asked/ market cap very simply is just the stock price multiplied by the amount of shares out there.
Has nothing to do with cash in hand or profits other then to the extent at which it is already reflected in the price of stock
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March 22nd, 2016 at 2:04:30 PM permalink
Also that market cap may or may not be old I didn't look at the shares outstanding but at times the market cap numbers are not adjusted online in a daily basis
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March 22nd, 2016 at 2:15:44 PM permalink
Quote: MathExtremist

They're making some headway on getting the debt ratio down, but >80% is still pretty high. Even before the PTG buyout they were high:

GLXZ balance sheet chart


And then there's DEQ. They have no debt but over $20M in accumulated deficit...

DEQ balance sheet chart


Either way, total assets are going down for both firms.



Galaxy needs to do something about that debt. It's the number one killer of businesses.

DEQ is on the path to being bought out. Assets reduced by over 50% in a 4 year period. I haven't seen much over the last year + to think anything has changed for them. Their library of offerings is weak at best, with EZ Bacc probably keeping them afloat. They had a chance a few years ago with their progressive system, but it died a quick death at most places that tried it.

Talk at another board is that NTGL has to be cleared out of their office by 03/31/16. Don't know how accurate that is, but it seems feasible since they have no employees and no income.


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March 22nd, 2016 at 2:26:23 PM permalink
Quote: Zcore13

Quote: MathExtremist

They're making some headway on getting the debt ratio down, but >80% is still pretty high. Even before the PTG buyout they were high:

GLXZ balance sheet chart


And then there's DEQ. They have no debt but over $20M in accumulated deficit...

DEQ balance sheet chart


Either way, total assets are going down for both firms.



Talk at another board is that NTGL has to be cleared out of their office by 03/31/16. Don't know how accurate that is, but it seems feasible since they have no employees and no income.


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That wasn't you that short sold NTGL big today, was it ;-)
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March 22nd, 2016 at 2:34:22 PM permalink
The down side to a short sell like that is staggering, where did you see a large short
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March 22nd, 2016 at 2:45:33 PM permalink
Quote: TwoFeathersATL

Quote: Zcore13

Quote: MathExtremist

They're making some headway on getting the debt ratio down, but >80% is still pretty high. Even before the PTG buyout they were high:

GLXZ balance sheet chart


And then there's DEQ. They have no debt but over $20M in accumulated deficit...

DEQ balance sheet chart


Either way, total assets are going down for both firms.



Talk at another board is that NTGL has to be cleared out of their office by 03/31/16. Don't know how accurate that is, but it seems feasible since they have no employees and no income.


ZCore13

That wasn't you that short sold NTGL big today, was it ;-)



No. I would have sold everything I had long ago. Probably within a minute or two of being drunk enough to buy.


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