FibberMcGee wrote: Since September the Business and Marketing class has followed the Stockhouse Forum on AAO, in a mixed basket with eleven other Canadian stocks.
They took notice of AAO and the chatter and rumours on the AAO thread -- eg. the bafflegab spin out thing, India, Africa, Stacked nr's, The CEO's tweets -- and found that although the price hasn't gone up, it has held up, even though the company has dated technology, no sales force, little cash, paltry income, unlikely prospects, no commercial production facilities etc.
So "How come?", they ask.
With some input from the English department's Rhetoric and Critical Thinking class, they identified several pseudonyms that shared grammar, spelling, punctuation, and other tells, from this and other boards, and surmised that there are far fewer individuals posting than it appears (on this an the other boards).
They studied the content that motivates, deflects, encourages, pumps, bashes, baits etc. and found very few posts with a fact or a financials basis, and that most posts are appeal to emotions, and/or are manipulative with ulterior motives ...eg. advising to hold while they themselves sell etc.
They also researched links between the principals and agents of several of these companies, studying and charting their corporate actions and how they link to one another's share price and corporate activity (and their personal investments).
This all seemed to be the case with most Stockhouse content ...Agoracom being a another.
Anyway, they felt that AAO was the least likely of their stocks to be affected by sharing these thoughts. So... So they came up with the group's "humble opinion.
Consensus on AAO, is a turnaround at 2 cents before the end of semester (but any price above 6 cents would be without substance or support, drifting down until... undecided).
**They have observed the selective "moderation" and are split on whether this post will be deleted or just quickly pushed down the thread.**