RE: RE: RE: ShareholdersWell that was a lot of interesting feedback, I can see there's a lot of strong opinions of this company and its Rival(s).
Victor, i'm still a student so i'm not entirely sure what the official cash position would be on Sep 30 or Dec 31. My best guess would be cash & equivalents and not including short term investments and marketable securities. That seems to be the consensus my professors agree on however they have mentioned it can be different by company/industry.
Either way a balance sheet is just a moment in time and can be very misleading with a bit of financial engineering, just like a wedding photo companies fix their ties, adjust the camera to suite the lighting and quickly take a picture while they look great. Once "photo day" is over they go back to what they really look like so IMHO i care more about Income statement and cash flow, tho it is nice to know approximately how much/ what kind of assets and liabilities a company has.
I understand there's been a lot of comparisons between LBE and ISM. My understanding is ISM is in a far better financial position than Liberty at the moment, but has quite a bit less to offer in the terms of future revenues. Either way the companies have about the same market cap , have their own strengths and weaknesses and for an investor who's bullish on nickel why not have both and hedge your risk instead of slashing each others throats?
Westerkid, that was alot of feedback. To answer you last question Timmins is about 8 hours north of Toronto. It is the "City with the Heart of Gold" it is one of north americas legendary mining towns and it has many big producers of gold, silver,copper,diamonds, nickel, ect.
That was a great summary of your experience in financial markets and how influenced and corrupted they can/have become. I am rather young, unexperienced and optimistic I will admit, I believe we all start off this way. Then based on our experiences we either stay that way or get bitter and unhappy based on how well we played our hands. At the end of the day its all about information, so that is the answer to your question as to why I bought LBE shares. Having grown up in Timmins I know a few employees and had been hearing good things so I decided I would made a small investment just before the 3 Qrt results were released (Nov 9, 09).
I called investor relations to find out when the financial statements would be released and got to talk to Gary for a while, I liked the answers he had to my questions and I thought the share price would surge when the results were released. The results werent as good as I had hoped but the shares soared to .37 shorty after (i bought at .19). My fellow students that joined me cashed out but I kept my position (I have 1-2 year timeframe).
In heinsight I would have liked to end my position and re open it here at .20 but I've learned theres no way of knowing what the market is going to do. All you can do is your own research & analysis and determine what you feel is a good company in a good good industry, try to get it at the most rewarding stage of the business cycle that fits the stage of the economic cycle and buy it for the best price u can. I feel I did that to the best of my abilities at this stage of my life and I am hoping the 4th QRT and Annual results that will be released soon will confirm Libertys ability to generate revenues and pay off their debt so they can reclaim their ownership and expand.
Heres hoping,
Cheers