{"id":3053,"date":"2013-10-30T14:12:58","date_gmt":"2013-10-30T14:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=3053"},"modified":"2013-10-30T14:14:01","modified_gmt":"2013-10-30T14:14:01","slug":"cvsl-inc-otcmktscvsl-jumps-on-pr-activity-momentum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/articles\/cvsl-inc-otcmktscvsl-jumps-on-pr-activity-momentum\/","title":{"rendered":"CVSL, Inc. (OTCMKTS:CVSL) Jumps on PR Activity, Momentum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> CVSL, Inc. (OTCMKTS:CVSL) keeps delivering, after being awakened once by the mid-October promotion. On Wednesday, the ticker added more than 24% to stand at 24 cents, on one of the most active trading days of last month. Buying volumes reached $247,000.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehotpennystocks.com\/Stock-Quotes\/?stock= CVSL\"> CVSL<\/a> stands at a three-year peak following a rising trend that took off at the beginning of the year. But the robust volumes are easily attributed to the promotion. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hotstocked.com\/articles-img\/small\/CVSL1030.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"CVSL1030.png\" title=\"CVSL1030.png\" width=\"400\" height=\"178\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>Computer Vision Systems Laboratories Corp., the company&#8217;s full name, has chosen to acquire other direct selling companies, and thus build a lucrative portfolio. So, the main news around the company are new acquisitions. Formerly, the ticker and abbreviation also stood for Cardio Vascular Medical Device Corp. Let&#8217;s see if the change in roles did anything for the company&#8217;s bottom line. All those acquisitions have built: <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hotstocked.com\/articles-img\/small\/ISCO1030.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"ISCO1030.png\" title=\"ISCO1030.png\" width=\"350\" height=\"156\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$18 million cash<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>$66 million total assets<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>$29 million total current liabilities<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>$2.8 million quarterly net loss<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>$20.1 million gross sales<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It seems<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehotpennystocks.com\/Stock-Quotes\/?stock= CVSL\"> CVSL<\/a> is enormously active, and may be in for a great future, as it rode over the rough patches in the past years. The company has a market cap that is still relatively high, at $360 million on more than $487 million shares. And there is also the question of why<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehotpennystocks.com\/Stock-Quotes\/?stock= CVSL\"> CVSL<\/a> took so long to take off, and if the upward trend would hold well enough.<\/p>\n<p>The company also released a new PR stating that it had agreed to buy Blyth,Inc. (misspelling it to Blythe) for about $268 million. Still, there is not a formal filing for the upcoming purchase, and at this point investors see the deal as just publicity bait. So far,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehotpennystocks.com\/Stock-Quotes\/?stock= CVSL\"> CVSL<\/a> has just sent a letter of proposal for the buyout- and this one-sided approach is definitely far from a complete deal for the NYSE-listed direct marketing company. It is quite possible that the upcoming deal is no more than name-dropping, given the fame of Blyth, Inc. as a producer of personal and decorative items.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hotstocked.com\/articles-img\/small\/BZNE1030.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"BZNE1030.png\" title=\"BZNE1030.png\" width=\"350\" height=\"156\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We last looked at<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehotpennystocks.com\/Stock-Quotes\/?stock= CVSL\"> CVSL<\/a> in its previous incarnation as a medical technology company, back in 2011. Then, the ticker made another run on high trading volumes, reaching about 30 cents.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehotpennystocks.com\/Stock-Quotes\/?stock= CVSL\"> CVSL<\/a> has several similar spikes to show, usually followed by a correction of 30 to 60%.<\/p>\n<p>Now, it&#8217;s a wait and see game for this ticker, which is among the newcomers of the active OTC shares. The active trading of<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehotpennystocks.com\/Stock-Quotes\/?stock= CVSL\"> CVSL<\/a> recalls that of Biozone Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (OTCMKTS:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehotpennystocks.com\/Stock-Quotes\/?stock=BZNE\">BZNE<\/a>), which also grew suddenly in volumes, but so far is struggling to make a clear trend.<\/p>\n<p>International Stem Cell Corp. (OTCMKTS:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehotpennystocks.com\/Stock-Quotes\/?stock=ISCO\">ISCO<\/a>) is another recently active selection, which nevertheless corrected its peaking trend.<\/p>\n<p>If you are still confident in the deal potential of<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehotpennystocks.com\/Stock-Quotes\/?stock= CVSL\"> CVSL<\/a>, as well as the stock&#8217;s potential to make a good run, be also prepared to absorb the losses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVSL, Inc. (OTCMKTS:CVSL) keeps delivering, after being awakened once by the mid-October promotion. On Wednesday, the ticker added more than 24% to stand at 24 cents, on one of the most active trading days&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1022,1088,238],"class_list":["post-3053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-bzne","tag-cvsl","tag-isco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/articles.thehotpennystocks.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/articles.thehotpennystocks.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/articles.thehotpennystocks.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/articles.thehotpennystocks.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/articles.thehotpennystocks.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/articles.thehotpennystocks.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/articles.thehotpennystocks.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/articles.thehotpennystocks.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/articles.thehotpennystocks.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}