When To Worry When to be worried
1.When you hear that VPT 4.3(or some new version beyond 4.0) is coming and will answer all the concerns of cardiologists .
Anyone here for the last five years, can tell you that the evolution of this machine, from 1.0 2.0, 3.2, 4.0, whatever, has been an ongoing story about trying to answer questions that cardiologists have had in Canada, US, Brazil, wherever.
Having said that, there has been a consistent and strong voice that 4.0 is the final version that will finally convert people to buy this machine. Just look back on the messages, you will see it again and again.
So…..
When you start to see people say that you need to wait now for the next generation of VPT for doctors to be convinced they should buy -you should know, the banana is beyond
ripe
2 When there is yet one more CEO, marketing, firm, or accounting firm announced
There have been more changes in the operational management of this company, over the last few years, then I care to recount. One should ask the question :why ?
Is this strategic or rearranging the chairs on the titanic?
Don’t know, but I do know that
Every time there’s a change, there’s always an excuse. Each new person iswidely proclaimed as being the answer, yet they are within a year or so summarily dismissed, thrown aside, criticized . and we now wait for the new person.
So the real question Is: Is it the person(CEO,Sales mananger, IR ) , or is the product?
The question we should ask is, why has this product not been selling?
3.0 When there is yet one more conference call about the “sales cycle”
I have heard so much explanation and excuses as to why it’s taking so long for a company to actualize Sales. There were stories about 4000 leads, 100% conversion rate, and sales are guaranteed to ramp up in the next quarter. Every quarter, year after this is made, people continue to explain that it’s because of the sales cycle that it takes time for people to accept the unit?
Ever bought an iPhone? Does Apple wait for you to like the phone before you pay for it?
what about a new car that costs much more than a VPT unit?
OK so that’s a consumer product, let’s look at the GEHC financials for the vivid ultrasound. Do you see any mention about delay in payment? Growing accounts receivable? or accounts receivable somehow just disappear?
4 When price becomes your salvation
So many times you hear :This stock was at 64 cents -now it’s 20cwnts -it’s on sale
This stock is too cheap
At 30 cents it’s a steal -it should be 2.00
Such pronouncements are made with certainty and authority
Here’s the truth
In the long run a stock doesn’t trade based on its prior price
It’s trades based on it’s value-how much cash it can generate
Remember -a stock isn’t a piece of paper
It’s a company-the question is-does that company create value and profit or does it just promote its potential , ask for more money from investors and fail to deliver?
what are the sales of this product over the lifetime of this company????
I have no reason to be here, since I don’t own the stock, I have no interest in buying the stock now , and at the current rate I have absolutely zero interest in buying in the future.
I am only here because old dog and science first tried to turn me onto the stock, and hearing the pumpI wondered if I should buy.
Yet since I read about it, it has been a dog, it’s continue to be a dog, and only continues to gain fleas IMO
The thing in this is just the ranting of one independent investor, who you should not listen to, who knows nothing, who is only doing this for entertainment. You should always speak to a financial advisor, and certainly not listen to anyone here whether positive or negative. After all, if you would listen to people who promoted the buying of the stock you would be down over 50%,or much more