rruff, here is my next report on another stock you should avoid so you do not make the same mistake. It is also a stock sale.
TheTruthseeker Report CON-o-log (CNLG, CNLGW) A warning to our Mom and Pop Investors
Conolog (CNLG, CNLGW)
5 Columbia Road Sommerville, NJ 08876 (908)-722-8081
While looking at the most active after-hours traders in early March, The Truthseeker came across this name, Conolog, which may merit further attention.
Conolog is a tiny company, taken public in 1995 by a tiny firm called IA
Rabinowitz & Co. (See Exhibit 1), which designs and distributes small electronic and electromagnetic components. The company has a history of uneven
sales and earnings (See Exhibit 2).
CNLG stock has done nothing for ages (See Exhibit 3), until suddenly, a barrage of press releases appeared over the past 6 weeks (See Exhibit 4). In this time
the stock has moved from under $1, to a current after-hours price of $8.
This flurry began with an announcement that EPS for the period ending Jan 31 00 would be 4 cents. There was, of course, the obligatory announcement about the
hot area of the moment, fiber optics. However, their "fiber optic" announcement was simply that you could attach a fiber optic connector (a type of plug sold by
countless firms, including Corning, HP, Siemens, AMP, etc) to some of their products.
Today's financials (See Exhibit 5) are very interesting. Here is a company with revenues of 1.5 million for the Q, but inventories of 3.2 million.
They announced earnings of 328k, but 2/3 of that was from taking credit for their prior losses under NJ state tax laws, actual earnings from the business would be 119k, or .02 per share, not the .06 reported, and LESS than the
.04 that they pre announced a few days ago!
Company's largest shareholder is an entity called CLOG LLC (See Exhibit 6), CLOG LLC is actually an individual named Warren Schreiber. Another holder is an entity called "Nybor". Nybor is listed as a consultant to CNLG, and
receives fee income from the company. Nybor is registered to the same address as Warren Schreiber. An SEC Schedule 13 (See Exhibit 7) indicates that Nybor and CLOG are
both, in fact, Warren Schreiber, and that the company has extended the life of an option it granted to CLOG LLC to purchase convertible debt of the company.
According to an older Schedule 13 (See Exhibit 8) the option is to purchase $2 million in debt, convertible to stock at $1 per share, creating an additional 2
million shares of CNLG, which would be a 37% dilution to current shareholders! This Schedule 13 also provides some details on the NASD's actions against Schreiber.
So, just who is Warren Schreiber? Schreiber is an associate of Randolph Pace. Basically, Schreiber is an ex-broker from VTR Capital, who is believed to have secretly controlled chop-stock house Sterling Foster. A Bloomberg News article
from September 1999 describes Schreiber's activities. (See Exhibit 9)
LOOK AT THIS....WARREN SCHREIBER DUMPED LOTS OF CNLG STOCK DURING THE PUMP
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SCHREIBER WARREN,10% BEN. OWNER,SELLS 895,000 FROM 02/01/00-02/1
3/16/0 2:49 (New York)
FORM 4
SEC - FROM 02/01/00-02/14/00, SCHREIBER WARREN, A BENEFICIAL OWNER
OF MORE THAN 10% OF SECURITY CLASS OF CONOLOG CORP
(TICKER:CNLG) SOLD 895,000 SHARES AT $1.38 - $6.38, BRINGING
HOLDINGS TO 300,000 SHARES.
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