{"id":8251,"date":"2016-07-08T13:02:04","date_gmt":"2016-07-08T13:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"\/articles\/?p=8251"},"modified":"2016-07-08T13:14:59","modified_gmt":"2016-07-08T13:14:59","slug":"catasys-inc-com-usd0-001-otcmktscats-surges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/articles\/catasys-inc-com-usd0-001-otcmktscats-surges\/","title":{"rendered":"CATASYS INC COM USD0.001 (OTCMKTS:CATS) Surges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>tags: CATS <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"\/\/s.hotstocked.com\/hotstocked.com\/repository\/articles\/93\/93875\/cats_6m_450x350.png\" border=\"0\" width=\"418\" height=\"186\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Last Friday throughout the entire trading session just 1,200 of Catasys Inc (OTCMKTS:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehotpennystocks.com\/Stock-Quotes\/?stock=CATS\">CATS<\/a>)&#8217;s shares got traded. When trading resumed after the holiday investors showed a bit more interest but the daily volume still remained below 10 thousand shares. Yesterday, however, all that changed and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehotpennystocks.com\/Stock-Quotes\/?stock=CATS\">CATS<\/a><\/strong> saw over 265 thousand of their shares changing hands, the biggest volume for the company since October 2015. The intense buying propelled the stock up the chart to a close at exactly 80 cents per share and a daily gain of 21.2%. Can the sudden spike in interest be attributed to the new PR that <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehotpennystocks.com\/Stock-Quotes\/?stock=CATS\">CATS<\/a><\/strong> issued before the start of the session?<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday the company announced the launch of its On<em>Trak<\/em> solution in the state of Virginia, the latest in several similar press releases since the start of June. In around a month the states in which the company has operations have increased from 13 to 18. In addition, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehotpennystocks.com\/Stock-Quotes\/?stock=CATS\">CATS<\/a> reported a 175% increase in enrollment in its On<em>Trak<\/em> programs as well as a 68% increase in revenues for the first quarter of the year compared to the same period in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Underestimating the risks surrounding <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehotpennystocks.com\/Stock-Quotes\/?stock=CATS\">CATS<\/a>&nbsp;<\/strong>is not advisable, though. Despite the revenue growth the financial state of the company still fails to inspire much confidence &#8211; as of March 31, 2016, <strong>Catasys <\/strong>had:<\/p>\n<p>&bull; $262 thousand cash<br \/>&bull; $1.3 million total current assets<br \/>&bull; $13.7 million total current liabilities<br \/>&bull; $728 thousand revenues<br \/>&bull; $4.3 million net loss<\/p>\n<p>The cash position of the company is particularly depressing with the quarterly report stating that as of May 12 <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehotpennystocks.com\/Stock-Quotes\/?stock=CATS\">CATS<\/a><\/strong> had a balance of just $78 thousand cash on hand. Historically the required funds for the company&#8217;s operations have been raised through the sale of shares and notes to affiliated entities. Last year<strong> 8.2 million shares priced at just $0.30 were sold for approximately $2.5 million in proceeds<\/strong>. This year $900 thousand, amount subsequently increased by $400 thousand to $1.3 million, were raised through a promissory note issued to Acuitas Group Holdings, LLC, a limited liability company owned 100% by the CEO of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehotpennystocks.com\/Stock-Quotes\/?stock=CATS\">CATS<\/a>. As part of the note agreement <strong>warrants for the purchase of 650 thousand shares at $0.47 per share<\/strong> were also issued.<\/p>\n<p>If it hasn&#8217;t already <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehotpennystocks.com\/Stock-Quotes\/?stock=CATS\">CATS<\/a><\/strong> will soon need to once again look for outside sources of funds which could have a negative impact on the performance of the stock. Use caution and do extensive due diligence before committing to any trades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>tags: CATS Last Friday throughout the entire trading session just 1,200 of Catasys Inc (OTCMKTS:CATS)&#8217;s shares got traded. When trading resumed after the holiday investors showed a bit more interest but the daily volume&#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":[],"class_list":["post-8251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/articles.thehotpennystocks.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8251","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=8251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/articles.thehotpennystocks.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/articles.thehotpennystocks.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/articles.thehotpennystocks.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/articles.thehotpennystocks.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}