> ausound wrote:
>> here's what I wrote re: ESLR
>> Mar 2009
>>> ESLR is on a terror..
>> 16% is not really a tear
>> 0.25 (16.03%)
>> when you consider this 6 month chart:
>> http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=ESLR&t=6m&l=on&z=m&q=l&c=
>> it's more of an escape opportunity
>> fueled by some profit taking short sellers
>> Short % of Float (as of 24-Feb-09)3: 13.50%
>> covering because they see their profit from that 52 week low
>> 52wk Range: 1.00 - 12.64
>> being diminished by 80cents
>> in the last four quarters:
>> their inventory has quadrupled
>> their accounts payable has doubled
>> and while their total revenue almost doubled in the last 4 Q's, their
>> gross
>> profit shrank from 33% to 4%
>> the black hole of negative retained earnings has increased 62%
>> ************************************
>> here's what I wrote Nov 08
>>> I know I should be buying but I am scared.... Waaaaaaaaa!
>> no you shouldn't
>> it's not profitable so there's no pe
>> and the "other" ratio, price to sales sezs it's no bargain either
>> P/S (ttm): 5.33
>> debt is 4 times larger than revenue
>> Shares Short (prior month): 24.15M
>> Shares Short (as of 28-Oct-08): 27.76M <--growing
>> Short % of Float (as of 28-Oct-08): 17.10%
>> 27 million short shares
>> will buy to cover so if doesn't BK there will be a bounce play to
>> milk for
>> a day or two
>> revenue is on a decline for the past 3 quarters
>> while cost of revenue and SGA spiked theis last quarter
>> and the NON reoccuring charges have been occuring with quarterly
>> regularity
>> and growing
>> and yeouch... they just borrowed a boatload of dough this last
>> quarter....
>> do yourself a favor
>> buy FSLR at $80
>> play that short covering bounce
>> ***********************************
>> something else I wrote in Nov08
>>> ESLR is not a PENNY Stock and it currently trades at $4.42 and is
>>> heading up.
>> heading up to it's $6.25 resistance
>> powered by shorts buying to cover
>> Shares Short (prior month): 30.17M
>> Shares Short (as of 10-Oct-08): 24.15M
>> Short % of Float (as of 10-Oct-08): 14.90% <--
>> it's not profitable so it has no PE ratio
>> that "other" ratio.. the price to sales ratio
>> Price/Sales (ttm): 7.13
>> too high to be a bargin stock and it's not a momentum stock to
>> warrent a ratio that high
>> it's debt is over 4 times it's revenue
>> Total Debt (mrq): 373.75M
>> their non reoccuringexpenses seem to re-occur every quarter and
>> they're growing sequentially
>> Non Recurring 11,281 5,281 1,046 358
>> The last 2 quarters they've deferred $20 million in liabilities under
>> the carpet
>> Deferred Long Term Liability Charges 10,317 10,195
>> and their capital expenditures keep growing sequentially
>> Capital Expenditures (103,658) (61,994) (30,065) (7,584)
>> you may be able to work some profit out of nimble swing trades or
>> technical
>> rebounds
>> but I'd say let this one go Jim
>> it's a story stock
>> got a great story
>> it just sounds like the panacea for what ails us
>> but the elephants aren't gonna buy big into this
>> lok at : PETS HMSY NEOG buy 'em on dip [well maybe pets is good to go
>> right
>> now..dunno]
>> insistant you want a beat to shit stock in the alt energy biz?
>> buy GE
>> 6.57 dividend
>> it's pretty much at it's 30 year support line
>> [does barclays REALLY have $10 trillion dollars worth of GE?]!!!!
>> last alt energy: CVA buy it below $15
>> DOW is a screaming buy
>> 30 yr support
>> has future nat gas supplies locked up no prob
>> nearly 7% dividend
>> if northrup {NOC}
>> tumbles to $34, that would be a good position
> DOW has a 7% divd? That would be nice but my info shows only 2.45%
> DIVD. Am i missing something..?
yes, what you're missing is #1: at the top of the post I said here's what I