{"id":4506,"date":"2014-05-07T13:15:55","date_gmt":"2014-05-07T13:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=4506"},"modified":"2014-05-07T13:16:01","modified_gmt":"2014-05-07T13:16:01","slug":"liquidmetal-technologies-inc-otcmktslqmt-warms-up-ahead-of-earnings-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/articles\/liquidmetal-technologies-inc-otcmktslqmt-warms-up-ahead-of-earnings-call\/","title":{"rendered":"Liquidmetal Technologies, Inc. (OTCMKTS:LQMT) Warms Up Ahead of Earnings Call"},"content":{"rendered":"

Liquidmetal Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB:LQMT<\/a>) was a company partially neglected due to the extraordinary interest in marijuana stocks. Still, LQMT<\/a> promised big developments for 2014, so we have to check it again and see if its product prototypes have achieved a wider reach. LQMT<\/a> had a decent run up to its annual results announcement, but went into another bout of depression in the following days. \"LQMT0507.png\" <\/p>\n

On Tuesday, LQMT<\/a> slid down nearly 10% to $0.191, as dollar volumes were a bit above $679,000. It is easily seen from the graph that LQMT<\/a> is far from the volumes at the beginning of the year, and far from the peak price at $0.40. Now, LQMT<\/a> has another chance to entice buying, in the hours left until its conference call, scheduled for May 8th, at 4:30 PM Eastern time.\"SGLB0507.png\"<\/p>\n

On the positive side, LQMT<\/a> has not seen paid promotions since the summer of last year, and its PR is rather subdued. Still, LQMT<\/a> has rather big expectations of being a leader in the amorphous alloys business. This year, the company will attempt to offer prototypes to the automobile industry. But its biggest bet was the potential to create a component for Apple’s iPhone.<\/p>\n

As for the financials, they are much more robust compared to other OTC companies, but still LQMT<\/a> remains burdened by great losses and debt incurred during the period of development:<\/p>\n

• $3 million cash
• $4 million total current assets
• $947 thousand total current liabilities
• $456 thousand revenue
• $6.7 million net loss<\/p>\n

This would translate into longer-term perspectives for the company. Unfortunately, this also means that LQMT<\/a> could go through droughts where investors lose their patience, and the company fails to update on its achievements.<\/p>\n

LQMT<\/a> resembles the bid of Sigma Labs, Inc. (OTCMKTS:SGLB<\/a>), the producer of 3D metal printers. SGLB<\/a> is having its ups and downs, mostly fueled by expectations that the company would finally make a breakthrough. SGLB<\/a> was strong at the beginning of the year, but went on to sink and recover in several bouts. Now, SGLB<\/a> will have to prove that its 3D printing bid will translate into improvements in the bottom line. SGLB<\/a> saw some recovery in the past days, toward $0.16.<\/p>\n

Speaking of promises, this is the signature of pharmaceutical companies. In the case of Advanced Cell Technology, Inc. (OTCMKTS:ACTC<\/a>), the stem cell company headed by Dr. Robert Lanza, the promise also meant a fast fallout for the stock price. ACTC<\/a> gapped downward after touching $0.10, and is now back to $0.06.<\/p>\n

If you believe LQMT<\/a> would awaken and the current price is a bargain, keep in mind that the stock looks rather volatile, and positive trends are often followed by significant corrections. Avoid over-investing, despite the promises of the company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Liquidmetal Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB:LQMT) was a company partially neglected due to the extraordinary interest in marijuana stocks. Still, LQMT promised big developments for 2014, so we have to check it again and see if...<\/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":[199,857,814],"class_list":["post-4506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-actc","tag-lqmt","tag-sglb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/articles.thehotpennystocks.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4506","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=4506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/articles.thehotpennystocks.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/articles.thehotpennystocks.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/articles.thehotpennystocks.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/articles.thehotpennystocks.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}