Metabolix, Inc. Message Board
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Think, 4.1 mil short shares/82,000+ avg. daily volume ='s 50 days to cover
by casinomarket •May 22, 2013 12:06 PMAnother sophisticated institutional investor weighing in. The shorts were wrong when the stock was at $20, and they are wrong now at $1.76. Incredible how stupid they are. I'm with you, this stock is going to take off when the shorts get squeezed.
Sentiment: Strong Buy
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Another institutional buyer purchasing big blocks of MBLX.
Sentiment: Strong Buy
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Same thing those living in Moore OK said before the big one hit. You'll have as much luck as they did trying "to be steady in the manipulating winds." The wind you encounter is going to take your breath away. Loading up on more MBLX. Strong tail wind headed our way. Beam me up!
Sentiment: Strong Buy
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Beam me up Scotty! Yoo hoo - Peek a boo.... Does your mama know where you be at?
Sentiment: Strong Buy
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Once the bankruptcy proceedings have been completed, MBLX will go up, up, up. Nothing will be able to compete against this game changing technology. The equipment, expertise, and incredible intelligence of Antibiotic and their employees could never, ever be replicated by any other company in America, Europe, and even the universe. MBLX stock is going to make us all millionaires. Beam me up Scotty!
Sentiment: Strong Buy
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That's incredible demand. Huge blocks of $38k, $2K, $14K, $2K, and $16K. The institutional investors are back! You just talked me out of going short. You're the type of knowledgeable investor that we can all ride the coattails on. Are there any other stocks you're long on? Stock tips please. Thank you!
Sentiment: Strong Buy
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I've bought puts before, but never actually shorted a stock. Seriously considering shorting this POS stock. Market cap is way too high for a company burning this much cash that has no revenue to speak of and a absolutely awful track record. Stick a fork in this turd.
Sentiment: Strong Sell
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News by Gadea release 10 minutes ago !! Still in the works but seems real good
by banks50 •May 13, 2013 2:39 PMWhat difference does it make? Who cares whether or not this plant reopens? I get impression that some people think this is a material event for MBLX. It's not!
Sentiment: Strong Sell
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Analysts covering MBLX just increased the ESP loss they expect for next year. It's gone from -0.68 to -0.71 to -0.73. Hard to believe the small retail buyers just keep getting sucked in by their unsophisticated stock screeners. Cash, no debt, and lot's of patents. Yippie Ki Yay! MBLX didn't earn the cash, they just sold more stock. Still burning $8 million of cash each quarter. Still only has around $1.2M of product sales per quarter. Hmmm. What a great time to BUY BUY BUY! "There's one born every minute!" Oh how true that is.
Sentiment: Strong Sell
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Nothing new. MBLX still burning a lot of cash and no revenue to speak of. When a company is burning around $8 million a quarter vs only generating around $1 million in product sales, and openly states it only has around 12 months worth of cash left - it is in BIG BIG BIG trouble. Particularly since MBLX track record for secondary offerings and screwing the institutional investors time and time again will likely prevent it from raising the $35 to $50 million of additional cash that it desperately needs without wiping out existing shareholders and/or selling all or part of their company.
Eno sounded pretty shaky during his opening comments. Much less confident than he has historically displayed. He recovered and regained confidence during latter half of the call, but those of us who have been listening to MBLX earnings calls for years know that Eno has lost a lot of the confidence and fervor he used to have. I think he knows his days are numbered, and the days of playing in the sandbox and destroying shareholder wealth have almost come to an end. MBLX needs a competent business person to run the company, or sell it. Obviously reasonable people can disagree, but history and the facts are on my side.Sentiment: Strong Sell
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The stock has had very little activity in past several days during the run up. Ignorant, unsophisticated retail buyers who buy stocks based upon cash, no debt, and a bunch of patents that give them hope that MBLX has game changing technology that will make them filthy rich. They ignore history and refuse to do their homework. You'll find the same people playing the slots.
The only hope for this stock is if Jack Schuler was able to put Eno in timeout, and gave him some legos to play with in the corner. If Eno still running things, then stock is going down. If Schuler was able to get control, then MBLX could turn the corner.
Some thing has to give in the very near future since MBLX is running out of cash. I have to believe that new CEO or Chairman is going to be announced or MBLX sold before year end. I don't think Eno would be able to raise $25 to $50 million via yet another secondary offering given his track record.Sentiment: Strong Sell
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Obama should tax excess cash being held by companies like Apple
by ilovepelosi •Apr 27, 2013 4:02 PMNo sarcasm here. Obama can leverage the gov't to force the Apple's of the world to invest their cash. If you don't invest capital or give it back to your shareholders, then you're going to give it to the gov't so that they can invest it for you.
Sentiment: Hold
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Obama should tax excess cash being held by companies like Apple
by ilovepelosi •Apr 27, 2013 4:02 PMAgain, dealing with 3rd grader who can't intellectually respond to my posting as to why taxing cash balances wouldn't help reduce the debt and stimulate growth.
Sentiment: Hold
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Obama should tax excess cash being held by companies like Apple
by ilovepelosi •Apr 27, 2013 4:02 PMAgain, I feel like I'm back in 3rd grade reading some of the replies to my posting. You don't say why you disagree, just call me names. Do you have the intellect to be able to rationally describe why you think I'm an "idiot?" Why do you disagree with me?
Sentiment: Hold
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Obama should tax excess cash being held by companies like Apple
by ilovepelosi •Apr 27, 2013 4:02 PMHis qualifications are that he knows what the poor and middle class citizens need, and has done excellent job exposing the greedy and rich for what they are . He cares about the people and understands they don't have a chance without government programs to help them. I used to go to bed at night worried about whether or not I would be able to feed my kids, or pay for their doctor if they got seriously ill. Now I don't worry. I know he someone now cares, and is doing every thing possible to look out for me and my kids.
Sentiment: Hold
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Obama should tax excess cash being held by companies like Apple
by ilovepelosi •Apr 27, 2013 4:02 PMI felt like I was back in 3rd grade when I read your reply. You must have voted for romney.
Sentiment: Hold
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Our massive deficits, now approaching $17 trillion, which equates to almost $60,000 for every man, woman, child, and baby in America isn't a spending problem but a revenue problem. Apple is hoarding over $100 billion in cash on it's balance sheet. President Obama should force American companies to pay 50% tax on any year-end cash balance to help pay for critical gov't programs and force companies to invest capital and hire more employees. He should also raise taxes on the rich to as high as 90% for people like Buffett and Gates. He should also raise minimum wage to $20 per hour, and find a way to put bush and cheney in jail.
Sentiment: Hold
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New board and CEO need to save this POS company.Sentiment: Strong Sell
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Doesn't it strike you as depressing that MBLX investors have become so desperate and expectations are so low that they constantly monitor foreign press reports to determine if a bankrupt company might one day be able to manufacture MBLX products? Doesn't that just scream that Eno and his two bit management team are at the end of their rope? Why doesn't Eno just announce another partnership in Italy where all of the purported demand is? Why not Germany? Why can't he find another manufacturer in Europe?
Perhaps ADM really does know something that you don't. They wrote off $400 million of their investment because they concluded the product was a POS. There's a reason why this company only has less than $5 million of annual revenue and is burning around $6 - $7 million of cash each quarter - despite over $600 million invested in trying to commercialize their "game changing" technology past few years.Sentiment: Strong Sell
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Light trading by rookie retail buyers moving stock higher.
by ilovepelosi •Apr 24, 2013 7:15 PMThere has been no trading activity on this stock to speak of in past few days except for a few small retail buyers. You didn't get what I meant when I referred to Boulder and pot smokers, thus you are the perfect MBLX investor. I think you should buy more MBLX stock. The longs have been buying on the dips, or have the dips been buying MBLX stock? Longs have driven this stock all the way up to a whopping $1.64. If longs continue to drive this stock up, up, up - you could sell a share and buy a glass of ice tea at your favorite restaurant. Biodegradable plastic might be wave of the future, but the only wave MBLX has been riding is down the crapper after the institutional investors flush it again, again, again, and again. Eventually, the giant turd will make it's way into the sewer. Cash is burning and no revenue.
Sentiment: Strong Sell