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Strategies & Market Trends : Joe Copia's daytrades/investments and thoughts -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Laz who wrote (2826)	5/15/1998 4:57:00 PM
From: myturn	Respond to of 25711

ARXA closed at $1.12, Friday May 15, 1998. You could have picked it up at .37 last Friday, May 8, 1998. Big news expected on Monday. Will it go higher? The press release on Monday is just one of five press release that are anticipated on ARXA over the next couple of weeks.

To: Laz who wrote (2826)	5/15/1998 5:07:00 PM
From: myturn	Respond to of 25711

DCGR will have continued exposure over the next couple of weeks and in my opinion is still at bargain basement prices. I've been evaluating this stock a little bit over the last several days. Touched base with Dennis Thomas and Scott Gnatt this afternoon. I like what I am hearing, yet I'm skeptical as always. This is the story as I understand it: We've got a Vegas "Money" show next week at Bally's running from May 13-15th (with another "Money" show in Chicago running from June 12th-14th), with the DCGR CEO Dom Pladdon (sp?) in attendance. This will be followed several days later with a television show in Los Angeles on Business News Channel 22, which has a viewership of up to 6.5MM households. The letter of intent with Santini's(sp?) Deli in Florida has been signed. Agreements are forthcoming. Santini's did $4MM+ in revenue with $1MM to bottom line. They are intending to be fully SEC compliant and reporting by the end of this month. There are 11.5MM shares out, with about 5MM shares floating. There are approximately $5MM in assets, with a book value approaching $.5. Earnings projections for 1998 range between .17$ and .20$ per share. Walgreens cigar rollout will be pushed nation-wide, with CVS Drugstores negotiations continuing. CVS might add up to $2MM in revenue with 10-20% to the bottom line if the agreement comes to fruition. Dom's intention is to diversify the company into the restaurant arena. As such, the name of the company will be changed shortly to remove the "cigar" reference along the following lines: "Dominican International Holdings" (maintaining the current stock symbol). This will tie in with a new theme restaurant, with franchise licenses for which bringing in $25k fixed fee per license with 3% sales revenue sharing. 10 of these restaurants in the next 18 months. The company is indeed debt free right now. Financials forthcoming to include calendar year 1997 and first quarter 98. Dominican will be the featured cover/story in the next month's issue of "Stockbroker's" magazine with 25,000 brokers/traders in circulation. Further, the company will have a featured article in "Opportunist" with 250,000 copies in circulation and a pass through read rate of 2.3 times, or about 750,000 readers in all. They "believe" the stock is extremely undervalued and should be at least book, or about .50$. They "believe" that the stock value should be $2 right now or at least achieve that over the next year, with proper marketing. They are hoping to achieve full NASDAQ certification. That's what I heard. Let me tell you what I think: The Publishers, Scott and Dennis, aren't true IR guys. They are marketers, pure and simple. Scott came from several brokerage houses, so he knows the game quite well. These guys are compensated by cash and share rights which reward them when the stock achieves certain milestones. For the most part, they need to get this stock value over .5$ per share to make some real cash..... I asked for examples of their work. They pointed to RADIF, or Rata Electronics, which was at $.93 when they took over in February and is trading at $2.5 or so now. As Scott mentioned to me though "we are focused on DCGR now as our top priority". My impression....gamble and hold at these levels. Better to be bought once audited SEC financials are available. Either way, this stock should make a run over the next couple of weeks IF this story plays out to plan. There is a press release due sometime Wednesday or Thursday which will add 2-4 million dollars a year to DCGR's bottom line. This press release is one of 5 press releases due out by the end of May.

To: Laz who wrote (2826)	5/15/1998 6:05:00 PM
From: Alan Markoff	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25711

I agree with Joe on the fundamentals of the stock, but somehow this one keeps getting beaten into the dirt. Hopefully with some pressure, luck and timing this one just might fly. Yes and I noticed the same when I was sitting on the sidelines watching the trading. Back then it seemed like much more buying was coming in and when a few sells hit they pumped the price down, this was consistent day after day as IKAR was sliding from a high of 3 plus. Then the following news release was put out which sparked my attention; Re-Incorporation in the State of Delaware Ikar has re-incorporated in the State of Delaware. Henceforth, the company will be known as ''Ikar Mineral Corp.'' The company's shares will continue to be traded on the OTC Bulletin Board under the symbol ''IKAR.'' The company has now applied to become a fully-reporting issuer. New Transfer Agent and Transfer of Share Certificates Ikar Mineral Corp. has appointed Interstate Transfer Co. as its new transfer agent. The company's address is: 56 West 400 South, Ste. 260, Salt Lake City, UT 84101, U.S.A. Shareholders of Ikar Mineral Corp. must tender their existing share certificates to Interstate Transfer Co. by April 30, 1998, in order to receive a corresponding number of new share certificates in Ikar Mineral Corp. Also note that IKAR's cusip # has changed; Well 4/30/98 has come and passed and IKAR is not trading the way it use to, matter of fact the opposite is occurring with a small amount of buying the stock is acting more positive on the upside as selling has little effect on a consistent basis. This stock was driven down to .90 a few weeks ago and if you look at the charts its slow steady rise is very obvious. Then step back and look at the timing in regards to the meeting with the IMF and Tajikistan,s government officials. Randy at IKAR is not just meeting with the IMF he has much more on his agenda than that since he will be gone for Approx; 30 days with a schedule full of meetings to work out the future in regards to IKAR. Randy should be back at IKAR by the end of this month. Randy was meeting with the IMF and Tajikistan the first week of MAY, and then this came out; infoseek.com it is only obvious what is taking place and being that Randy is meeting with many people with a time period of 30 days all one has to do is use common sense. Also Joe I concur your post was excellent and I also stay away from mining stocks but this one has much potential and they are not relying on just Gold since they hold vast reserves in Tungsten and other metals on there property. The combination of that and the development of Tajikistan and its economy to me makes this an unbelievable combination not to mention the fact of having a float of approx; 6.6 Million shares and total issued at a mere Approx; 17 Million.