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Biotech / Medical : GUMM - Eliminate the Common Cold -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Sir Auric Goldfinger who wrote (2713)	10/22/2000 2:43:00 PM
From: DanZ	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 5582

Pure and simple, you are either a liar or don't understand how to interpret a cash flow statement. Here are Gum Tech's cash flows for the last five quarters: June 99: +5,010,000 Sep 99: -1,152,000 Dec 99: +1,491,000 Mar 00: +2,610,000 June 00: -3,663,000 Here are their cash flows for the last five years: YE 1995: +478,000 YE 1996: +613,000 YE 1997: +2,491,000 YE 1998: -3,090,000 YE 1999: +5,077,000 So you see, "Auric", Gum Tech has had positive cash flow 3 out of the last 5 quarters and four out of the last five years. That puts to rest your false claim that "GUMM has not had postive cash flow for over 5 quarters, if ever." Furthermore, they should make a profit in the fourth quarter. Since they have no interest payments (0), a profit would result in positive cash flow this quarter as well. Here is Gum Tech's income data for the last five years: 1995: +0.11 1996: -0.76 1997: -1.02 1998: -0.97 1999: -0.13 Despite losing money four of the last five years, they generated positive cash flow four out of the last five years. It doesn't matter if the money came from the financing activity. The investment that they made in the last two years already paid off in the form of a substantial joint venture with Swedish Match and enabled them to bring Zicam to market. Do some projections, moron, and you will find that the gum business will be profitable in 2001 and they will have plenty of positive cash flow. The profit from Gel Tech is just icing on the cake to send you whimpering away with your tail between your legs. Most start up companies have negative cash flow in their operations until they become profitable. That's why they borrow money and sell stock to build their business. That's what the capital markets are for and that's why companies go public. You'll get all the upticks you want and more in the near future. The only problem for you is the upticks will continue and you will get run over. Short it to 30 and beyond! Pure and simple, you post a bunch of misleading bull manure that you hope people will take at face value. Sorry, Charlie. Not here! Your "DD" smells more like pump and dump with every one of your bogus posts.