A sad day for me...here's what I had to tell my daughter
Lorraine LoBianco wrote:
What the hell? $6?
Hi Lorraine,
Yesterday, MRVC announced their earnings will fall short for this quarter 10 to 15% A first for this company for over 30 something quarters or so.
The SEC recently has announced that it was alarmed with companies that have acquired other companies, i.e. Lucent technologies Cisco, and on and on, and then the purchaser(s) have been writing off unusual amounts thereby hiding the fact that the company earning's may not have been increasing and this became the accepted (legal) thing to do. Then, people that short stock look for small companies acquiring companies and spread lies and rumor that the SEC is investigating said company specifically. They have been doing this for years but this time they got lucky with recent SEC recent concerns being made known publicly. In my opinion, this prompted MRVC into making this announcement. If the people that short stocks for a living spread outright lies,(in this case they did) they can go to jail but in this particular case by management's silence on this matter tells me they do not intend to prosecute these people as it would attract attention to Management's past accounting procedures and people that resort to this know this would be the case. . It is my opinion that MRVC management has used this method of accounting before to hide earning declines and this time, with people who feed off other people's fears and spread rumors of SEC specifically looking at MRVC, which has not been reported anywhere, decided not to continue to use GAAP (generally accepted accounting practices) so yesterday they announced that their earnings have slowed 10 to 15% for this quarter only.
I am very sorry I talked you into investing your hard earned money in this company as the Management of MRVC lied to my face when I visited the company last year when I asked them if they planned to support shareholders. In fact, they don't give a damn about their individual shareholders and have not been creating a respected company purely by their hard, honest work. No, I can't sue them personally for this however I wouldn't be surprised if a class action lawsuit would surface soon. This would be bad for everyone as it often taxes small companies assets to fight them and most often just has a snowballing effect to the demise of small companies. This is a sad day for me especially because I involved you in this company. It still has large amounts of cash (duped from new investors recently under the guise of the need to make more acquisitions and ramp up capabilities to produce more products, in my opinion) and if you hold the stock for approximately 6 months to a year you probably will get your money back) We will have to talk about how you might still be able to buy the house you have been looking for as obviously the money you counted on or I made you believe you would have with your investment in MRVC will not be available to you now. You are aware that Your Mom and I have significantly invested in this company and worst we probably will have our margined (borrowed money) called (demanded to be paid immediately. While at this time, this situation will create a hardship on us, we will be ok...I think.
This has definately changed my outlook for this company. It may regain it's stock price but will never repair my disappoitment with being involved and invested in this company.
Again. I am very saddened and sorry I involved you but you will not lose your money until you sell or if the company files for bankruptcy which, in my opinion, will not happen anytime soon.
Love, Dad |