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To: musicguy who wrote (1001)9/18/1998 7:23:00 AM
From: Wayne Rumball  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 12872
 
GSMI - looks really bad at any price.

March 31 SOS 5,531,705
June 30 SOS 10,102,323
Aug 15 SOS 12,555,071

Series C convertible preferred shares 14.5 of them converted to 3,462,463

Not sure what the conversion rate is based on but that means the other 30.5 outstanding would add another 7,283,111 (or a lot more if it is based on the closing price)

No wait, decided to investigate a little more...

Man this is really good, here's the scam
So the company issued 45 Series C preferred (SCP) for 4.5 million dollars. After all is said and done it added 2,423,000 to book value (the other 2,077,000 disappears into space)

Now those SCP's convert to shares at a 25% discount to market price prior to March 31, 1998, and after that the discount increases 2%/month to max 35%

So at todays price, the remaining 30.5 can convert to 50,051,282 shares.

So with only 40 million authorized, you bet they need to do a reverse split.

Head for the hills boys



To: musicguy who wrote (1001)9/18/1998 7:29:00 AM
From: Wayne Rumball  Respond to of 12872
 
Now lets look at TREV
1,000 shares of preferred stock converted to 1,449,685 common

There are another 1,615,675 outstanding

nuf said



To: musicguy who wrote (1001)9/18/1998 8:41:00 AM
From: Wayne Rumball  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 12872
 
Now look what I stumbled on;

PHV, book value $8.63/share ($1,131,444,000)

Negative - SOS 131,143,854
Positive-
biz.yahoo.com
Insiders bought 3,355,000 shares in August

Negative - lost 0.56/share first 6 months
Positive - Losses mainly due to writeoffs and acquisitions
Negative - they are being sued by unhappy shareholders

Worth watching closely. If there is sustained buying it might be time to get in.

Thing must be getting close to the bottom