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To: RockyBalboa who wrote (2667)7/18/1999 5:40:00 PM
From: Mad2  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 19428
 
Another reverse merger.
Business is similar to DGV
Takes some carefull reading with caluclator in hand to figure shares, warrants and pref. issues. Sports a big market cap (500mil @20/share) and money flow indicates may be ripe to sell off. otherwise no immediate opinion.
Regards,
Mad2
From 8-K dated 6/18/99
freeedgar.com
The Duck Corporation (the "Company") is a Delaware corporation formed on
March 2, 1992 with a mission to develop and commercialize a totally new video
compression technology called TrueMotion-Registered Trademark-. The Company's
operations to date have focused on delivering to the multimedia and game
development communities high performance video and audio compression and
cross platform playback capabilities. The Company offers solutions for video
capture and compression, as well as integration of TrueMotion-Registered
Trademark- into multimedia, game and communications applications and servers
running on all major platforms and distributed on CD-ROM, DVD-ROM or over a
network.


Money flow
16-JUL-99 Ticks Money Flow($MM) Avg. Price
Small Blocks +1083 -883 +10.7 -14.3 20.5136
Large Blocks +1 -15 +1.3 -5.4 20.5677
Total: +1084 -898 +11.9 -19.7 20.5249
15-JUL-99 Ticks Money Flow($MM) Avg. Price
Small Blocks +1749 -763 +22.1 -13.0 19.2844
Large Blocks +10 -10 +4.2 -3.0 18.4744
Total: +1759 -773 +26.3 -16.0 19.1414

Daniel Miller, Pres./CEO, David Silver, COO, Barry Shereck, CFO
Formed June 15, 1999 in the merger of The Duck Corporation, an On2.com subsidiary, and a subsidiary of Applied Capital Funding, Inc. Developer of broadband video compression, intends to leverage its next-generation TrueMotion VP3 video technology to launch the On2.com Broadband Network. On2.com's first offering, On2Movies, is scheduled to launch in late 1999. On2.com plans to launch On2Music and On2Games in early-2000.



To: RockyBalboa who wrote (2667)7/18/1999 9:04:00 PM
From: Rajiv  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 19428
 
ONT is the product of a reverse merger of the Duck Corporation into a shell Applied Capital Funding, Inc.

ONT is working on broadband video content (http://www.on2.com). Their revenues for 1998 was 1 MM with a quarterly burn rate of around 1 MM. After the reverse merger, they have around 15 MM in cash and cash equivalents (they sold some preferred stock to raise the $).

As Mad2 has commented, calculating the # of outstanding shares (on a dilutive basis) is not an easy task.

# of outstanding shares - 23 million (8 million held by the owners of the shell and 15 million held by the Duck Corp investors).
# of convertible preferred shares - 2 million (converts on a 1:1 ratio)

Warrants to purchase an aggregate of 3,343,211 shares of the Company's Common Stock at an exercise price of $3.14 exist.

Options total around 2 million

Duck employee stock options to purchase an aggregate of 1,802,000 shares of duck Common Stock were converted into options to purchase 1,602,580 shares of the Company's Common Stock as follows: (i) 557,613 shares of Company Common Stock at an exercise price of $.88 per share; (ii) 570,952 shares of Company Common Stock at an exercise price of $1.12 per share; and (iii) 474,014 shares of Company Common Stock at an exercise price of $2.25 per share. In conjunction with the Merger, the Company granted 455,000 options to new employees, contingent upon their acceptance of employment, at an exercise price of $1.50 per share.

The owners of the preferred shares own warrants for an additional 2.23 million shares (exercise price of $3.14).

The Duck shareholders are restricted from selling more than 1/3 of their holdings over the first 6 months

Subject to the completion of an audit and the preparation and delivery of audited financial statements, the Parent shall file, within ninety (90) days after the Closing, a registration statement (the "Registration Statement") with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") relating to (i) any Parent Common Stock underlying the Series A Preferred Stock; (ii) any Parent Common Stock underlying the Parent Warrants and Parent Options; and (iii) the shares of Parent Common held pursuant to Section 2.04(b) that are not currently free trading; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that for a period commencing as of the Closing Date and terminating on the earlier of (i) March 15, 2000 or (ii) six (6) months after the effective date of the Registration Statement, each of the Former Duck Stockholders shall not sell more than one-third (1/3) of their individual shares, pursuant to a Lock-Up Agreement (the "Lock-Up Agreement") substantially in the form attached hereto as EXHIBIT 2.06(a).

I am not aware of who the specialist is for this stock.

IMHO the stock has moved up because of a limited float. Once the Duck floodgates are opened, this stock can easily tank.. I don't see any near-term catalyst for the start of a downtrend. I thought it was odd that an internet company decided to use the reverse merger route to get on the Amex - are there any good stocks on the Amex ?

The -ve factors for initiating a short position
- Travelers Group owns around 20% of the common stock (and has a seat
on the board).
- They use the hot keyword - "broadband". They will be launching On2Movies in Q4 1999. We can expect lots of press releases around that time.

The relevant SEC filing is the 8-K (freeedgar link given in previous post by Mad2). The previous filings are from the shell and are almost useless.

Regards,
Rajiv