HI Stephen: Well she went from $5 to $71 last year, then tumbled to $22 in a forth of the time it took her to go up, looks like we got a new bunch of suckers..Tel_save..saved the day..but what will it add to..the heard did not seperate the news from the noise, Tel-Save has 37 employess..and is a reseller for AT&T.. take a look at the ton of options and warrents tel-save gave the underwriters and insiders at $1.45..then tell me it's not a scam. What happens when they exersize them !! PART OF PROSPECTUS
Common Stock being offered.................. 3,000,000 shares
Common Stock to be outstanding after the
offering.................................... 12,550,000 shares(1)
Pay for, develop and deploy AT&T switching
equipment; finance marketing activities of
partitions; payment of $4,500,000 in connection
with the Reorganization (as defined herein);
finance customer conversion costs; and other
Use of proceeds............................. corporate purposes, including working capital.
Nasdaq National Market Symbol............... TALK
<p>(1) Excludes 818,600 shares of Common Stock issuable upon the exercise of
outstanding options granted by the Company at a weighted average exercise
price of $1.45 per share. Also excludes incentive stock options to purchase
650,000 shares of Common Stock reserved for issuance upon the exercise of
stock options which may be granted under the Company's Employee Stock Option
Plan; the Company has granted options to purchase 600,000 shares of Common
Stock under the Employee Stock Option Plan at the initial public offering
price concurrent with this offering including 66,400 options each to Gary W.
McCulla and Emanuel J. DeMaio. See "Risk Factors -- Shares Eligible for
Future Sale." ------------------------ and
Without taking into account any changes in such net tangible
book value after June 30, 1995, other than to give effect to the net proceeds
from the sale of the shares of Common Stock offered hereby less the
underwriting discounts and estimated offering expenses, and the distribution
of the Company's taxable income immediately prior to the effective date of
this Prospectus and the Reorganization, the pro forma net tangible book value
of the Company as of June 30, 1995 would have been approximately $28,706,000
or $2.29 per share. This represents an immediate increase in net tangible
book value of $3.26 per share to existing stockholders and an immediate
dilution in net tangible book value of $11.46 per share to new investors. The
following table illustrates this dilution on a per share basis:
Initial public offering price per share...................... $13.75
Net tangible book value per share before the offering....... $ 2.21
Pro forma reduction to stockholders' equity((1))............ (3.18)
Increase attributable to new investors...................... 3.26
Pro forma net tangible book value per share after the
offering.................................................... 2.29
Dilution per share to new investors. $11.46 and thats at the $13.75 price in short from that time on all future investers pay a premimum of 11.46 to buy this stock.. ---------------------------- odd how people toss their money down and don't even read the big print, recent survey shows that 80% of buyers never read the prospectis. This is a Tel-Save is a scam, a type of front for AT&T to undercut prices with out getting blamed for it, and the insiders and underwirters have a cinch on makeing some big bucks even if she sells for $3 share..let alone the $20 she jumped too.. I notice they don't sell the public any options !or I would load up with puts. --------------------- <p>To date, the Company has marketed services by emphasizing its use of
AT&T's network and billing services. The Company expects to begin providing
service on OBN in the first quarter of 1996. As a result of deploying OBN,
the Company will be required to reduce its emphasis on AT&T in its marketing.
The Company expects that certain of its current partitions and end users will
cease or reduce purchasing services from the Company after it deploys OBN.
The Company will attempt to limit such attrition by continuing to offer
services on the AT&T network and by employing the billing services of AT&T
and ACUS, a wholly owned strategic business unit of AT&T. However, there can
be no assurance that a significant number of partitions and end users will
not change their long distance company. The loss of, or reduction in
purchases by, a significant number of end users could have a material adverse
effect on the Company's financial condition or results of operations. In the
quarter during which the Company implements OBN, the Company may experience
reduced growth in, or even lower, revenues as a result of the factors
discussed above.
<p> As a result of deploying OBN and reducing the emphasis on utilizing AT&T's
network in its marketing, the Company's ability to attract new end users may
be adversely affected. Additionally, the Company must either select from
AT&T's published tariffs for fiber transmissions or negotiate new tariffs
with AT&T to secure transmission facilities. There can be no assurance that
the Company will be able to secure or maintain such tariffs at cost effective
rates. To the extent that the Company, rather than AT&T, is responsible for
providing its network services, the Company's potential liability increases
if such services are not provided.
<p>In order for the Company to provide service over OBN, the Company will
install and operate, and be responsible for the maintenance of, its own
switching equipment. The Company currently does not own switching equipment
and its employees have limited experience operating as a switch based
carrier. There can be no assurance that the Company will be successful in
operating as a switch based carrier once it installs such equipment.
<p> Additional management personnel and information systems will be required
to support OBN, the costs of which will increase the Company's overhead. Any
delay or difficulties in hiring personnel or developing systems could
adversely affect the implementation of OBN. See "Business -- The Network."
<p>RELIANCE ON INDEPENDENT CARRIERS AND MARKETING COMPANIES;
LACK OF CONTROL OVER MARKETING ACTIVITIES
<p> The Company markets its services primarily through a network of
independent carriers and marketing companies known as "partitions," each of
which has entered into a non-exclusive agreement with the Company. Partitions
generally receive, as compensation, the difference between the amounts re
ceived by the Company from the end users and the amount charged by the
Company to the partitions for providing such service. The end users of these
partitions accounted for approximately 80% of the Company's revenue in 1994.
The remaining 20% of the Company's revenues was generated primarily through
sales of inbound "800" service with commissions generally paid to the agents
of the Company; included in this 20% are sales made by partitions for which
they received a commission rather than compensation through the partition
arrangement described above. The only distinction between partitions and
agents is that partitions are paid pursuant to partition arrangements,
whereas agents are compensated through commissions. There is no distinction
between the end users of sales from partitions versus the end users of sales
from agents. In the event that the Company loses access to AT&T's network or
billing services, its agreements with partitions would terminate and the
Company would have to obtain new partition agreements. The Company will, in a
majority of cases, be required to amend its existing partition agreements in
order to provide services through OBN. There can be no assurance that all
partitions will agree to so amend their agreements with the Company.
Historically, partitions of the Company have amended their partition
agreements in connection with changes in the Company's service offerings,
which related primarily to pricing. There have been no material losses of
partitions or end users in connection with such amendments. Over the 12
months ended June 30, 1995 no partition accounted for more than 10% of the
Company's revenues. In the event that one or more major partitions were to
cease doing business with the Company, the financial condition or results of
operations of the Company could be adversely affected. -------------------- There is more much more, and none of it looks good to me JIm |