still digesting in full, but - good balance sheet, earned $108K. which is about in the same ballpark that they earned for all of last year. CLSI used to reel off 100k+ profit quarters with some regularity, but - this was the first for the last year. seasonally this has tended to be a good Q for them though, so - will need to keep this up, for the stock price to move much higher.
anyway - was a solid Q, i expect will move back to .01 or possibly .011 range next week. in my view, fair value might be .011-.012 range. could be much higher, but - still some nagging concerns, starting with management's eternally late filings, hold it back a bit imho. i'll add a little more if can get at .009 or .0095 monday, but i admit am a little gunshy about CLSI: would personally not be willing to make it a big holding at this point. maybe down the road if they can string together a few 6-digit profit Q's.
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surprisingly took a few weeks to move up after the Q, but - finally out of the subpennies, at least for the moment. some buying today - .011 with a .0105 x .011 spread.
wonder if they are going to file to get back off the pinks
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Blue, I am holding one-million shares of CLSI.
With today's fuel prices, perhaps there will be an increasing demand for parking services, including bicycles. Ridership on trains, buses and subways, here in Southern California, all are up ten to fifteen percent and increasing. Parking demand is exceeding parking capacity.
Still holding ALMI, IESV and HOM.
I am in HOM average 1.70 per. I am looking to make HOM a ten bagger.
My sincere hope is all is well with you and yours and you have finally finished your back porch area!
quote:Originally posted by Purl Gurl: Blue, I am holding one-million shares of CLSI.
With today's fuel prices, perhaps there will be an increasing demand for parking services, including bicycles. Ridership on trains, buses and subways, here in Southern California, all are up ten to fifteen percent and increasing. Parking demand is exceeding parking capacity.
Still holding ALMI, IESV and HOM.
I am in HOM average 1.70 per. I am looking to make HOM a ten bagger.
My sincere hope is all is well with you and yours and you have finally finished your back porch area!
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Purl, it is always great to log in and see that you have posted.
I did finally finish my entire backyard just this past weekend, thanks for asking. patio was done last year, just doing landscaping this year. should have bought that CLWY stock you mentioned a year or two back: dropped another $600 on trees/shrubs/dirt/mulch just this past weekend! is good to work outside after spending too much time at a desk.
i hope you and yours are also doing well out in CA, and that you were successful in finding that land you were looking to buy.
there was not a shred of doubt in my mind that you were still holding ALMI, i knew you were. great fun watching it take the next leg up, as was discussed over in the ALMI Pro/Con thread.
HOM - as is my specialty, i sold way too early; happens all the time, ah well.
a few months ago, you wrote:
"look for long-term value stock investments. Look for value stocks to be periodically clobbered by a very nervous investing public."
This is still a main focus of mine, looking for strong value and long-term plays. also of course searching for improving results and chances for growth.
my main strategy is trying to heavily diversify with small positions in quite a large range of promising microcaps. because i've always sold too early in the past, trying to resist that urge now, and simply hold long (with a few exceptions like NMKT, which are just too attractive as swing-plays to pass up short-term profits on). have quite an assortment of funny little stocks in my "basket", most of them profitable with good balance sheets and trading at low multiples.
lately with the metals run, a main focus of mine has been on these metals stocks, as perhaps you saw in the "frisky" thread. i actually get some real discussion in that thread, fun for me who usually rambles on mostly to himself in most other threads!
haven't added too much to my basket lately: bought a little TCRS.PK when it dumped into the .40's last week, and this week so far my main stock of interest has been KSWW. also watching several others, like ELSE and IAIC, hoping for a good dip to buy on.
anyway - off to "real" work now. thanks again for stopping by and posting. great to see your name on the board again, and i hope you make more frequent visits. am sure will never be able to explain to you the degree to which you profoundly influenced my investing style and habits, you were truly my "teacher" here for the first year i started investing in individual stocks.
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Blue, how could I be your teacher when I play your stock picks?
In keeping with my recent thoughts:
Clancy Systems International, Inc. Adds Transit Contract
April 25, 2006 14:24:01 (ET)
DENVER, Apr 25, 2006 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Clancy Systems International, Inc. (Pink Sheets: CLSI) has contracted with Standard Parking of Chicago to provide a comprehensive reserved permit system for the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA). The program now services three major stations: Pulaski, Cicero/Midway and Cumberland. With the success of the program new stations will be added. The CTA program utilizes the Web-enable services that Clancy provides to other transit systems including BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit), LA Metro (Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority) and NTSFS (Norwalk Transit-Santa Fe Springs).
These agencies administer 175,000 parking spaces. Many of these spaces are now being converted to paid reserved parking utilizing Clancy's services which include not only the monthly reserved permits, but travel parking permits, daily prepaid reserved and Park-by-Phone on the spot paid parking.
These programs earned BART a prestigious Federal Transit Administration Transit Website Award for "Outstanding Transit Information Website Design." The award was issued by the Department of Transportation, United States of America.
"Clancy looks to expand its programs for transit systems and private parking operators as the need for reserved and guaranteed parking becomes more widespread. We see a tremendous opportunity for growth in public transit and we are positioned to provide services that make parking and permitting easy for the rider and profitable for the transit agency," stated Stan Wolfson, President.
SOURCE: Clancy Systems International, Inc.
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i had crummy luck today with ELSE: sat at 5.15 for several days, dipped to 5.13 today for several trades this morning, never got a single share.
promptly hit 7.45 this afternoon. drats!
will have to look into MKRS again: played it once for a quick swing trade, but - has been quite awhile since i looked into it.
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ELSE, still frustrated over missing ELSE - i hate it when buy orders cheaper than mine, of the exact same block size, execute; and mine just sit there while it runs away. argh.
IAIC ran away from me too to a smaller degree, was sitting at .62; stock sat at .63 most of the day before bumping to .68 at close. ah well, maybe later this week.
CHID, have actually had buy orders out a few times over the past month, i usually keep up fairly well with chinese micros. unfortunately, i obviously set them too low - nice move up for it yesterday. will continue to keep an eye on; to see if it has any dips.
maybe there is a theme here: that i have to stop being so cheap with my buy orders.
PVCT, have not heard of - will read a bit about provectus.
TMWD looks to fall into the "transitioning from a loss to a profit" category i know you are fond of, though they're not quite there yet. i know you work a lot with networking/isp/etc stuff - have you used their MailGate product before, is that what drew you to them?
and a broader question: what price range do you generally try to stay under for stocks - $3-ish range?
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wide spread, but - CLSI showing some more buying pressure today.
ELSE - story of my life: hit 11.20 this morning, a day after i missed it by maybe a penny at 5.15 yesterday. just like CYDS, SUWN, and too many others to even mention, *sigh*
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volume suddenly dried up for CLSI; a whopping thirteen dollars traded hands today.
still watching CHID - buy order a few cents away from filling today, maybe next week if momo traders hop off the wagon.
TCRS got some nice volume today: 115k shares, which is a large amount for a very thinly traded stock like TCRS. am still holding - doesn't strike me as overvalued: earned .17/sh last year, and followed up with .043/sh in their last Q.
i suppose i am polluting the CLSI thread, perhaps there should be a new thread entitled "purl and blue blabber and banter about various random little stocks", heh
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still not much CLSI volume, but spread has bumped up the highest in a long time: .014 x .015.
i see my .70 limit buy for CHID triggered this morning, PG. PDGE dipped to my 1.58 limit buy price but i didn't get any, maybe this afternoon.
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actually some volume came in during the afternoon for CLSI, nice .016 close on 1.3M shares which is a small dollar amount but a fair amount for a thinly traded stock like CLSI. maybe will regret, but - i admit that i took half off the table at .016, but will hold the other half long. couldn't resist selling half to get away breaking even on a chunk, considering was only two weeks ago we were at .006 and not .016. i like CLSI, but - i really hate late filings (i am really f*ing pissed_in_MI at ETLTE at the moment).
probably will regret as well, but - took .744 on CHID and turned into a swing trade. am probably wrong and now will go straight to $20, but - i just get a feeling about it that it's going to be a big bouncer. am going to watch it for awhile and try swingtrading it like i often do NMKT. i mostly do long-term holds, but - could use some more practice swingtrading.
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i'm actually not sure about the procedure by which CLSI has to get off the pinks and back on the OTC. is it just a simple thing now that they have become current with their filings? or are there are a fair amount of hoops to jump through, and it generally takes awhile? Purl, anyone?
re: CHID - figures, was sitting at .69 all week for a re-buy: missed it by maybe half a cent, .835 close yesterday. dang, i sure have that "missed it by a penny" thing happen to me a lot, d'oh!
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CHID - story of my life - now on fire, *sigh*. well, i can't say Mother Hen didn't warn me! of course if i would have simply held CHID, it now would be at elevens cents.
ah well, hope you are presently making a bundle on this one, Queen Bee!
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added some chunks of IAIC today, very nice dip. doesn't make much sense to me that it should be trading in the .50's, market cap barely $6M at that point. i think it has a shot to net $1M the upcoming 4 Q's, and like the trend of these numbers:
that would imply a forward P/E of about 6. we'll see how it goes down the road, hard to say of course. maybe i'm an idiot, but - sure looks like a good buy to me from these levels though.
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Blue, many companies have elected to move to pink sheets to avoid Sarbanes-Oxley costs. Pinks are becoming more attractive because many proven companies are now appearing on pinks and displaying better earned profits by avoiding account / reporting costs.
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Clancy Systems International, Inc. to Market American Chariot Personal Mobility Device
May 08, 2006 12:58:01 (ET)
DENVER, May 08, 2006 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Clancy Systems International, Inc. (Pink Sheets: CLSI) has announced a strategic marketing alliance with American Chariot Company Inc. of San Leandro, California, to introduce and market its Chariot to the parking industry. American Chariot manufactures a lightweight electric vehicle designed for personal mobility that is reliable, versatile, inexpensive and compact. Clancy has penned an agreement for exclusive marketing rights to the billion-dollar parking industry.
"Now that fuel costs are going through the roof, the Chariot becomes even more import to budget-conscious city governments, private companies as well as airports and college campus operations. The Chariot is very affordable and costs just pennies a day to operate. Among current users of the Chariot are the U.S. military, various law enforcement agencies as well as many industrial companies. Clancy provides a direct entry into the industry," said David Joseph, president of American Chariot.
"I believe our customers will be as excited as I am about the implementation of the Chariot into their operations. The use of the Chariot in the area of parking enforcement will bring new efficiencies to city and institutional operations already feeling a budget crunch due to rising vehicle costs and fuel prices," said Stanley J. Wolfson, Clancy's president.
Clancy will kick off the marketing alliance with American Chariot via the Internet Web site www.expo1000.com. The parking search engine is offering an essay contest in which the winner will receive an American Chariot for his or her parking company or agency. Clancy will introduce the Chariot to the parking world on May 15 at the International Parking Institute's (www.parking.org) annual conference and trade show in Las Vegas.
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Blue, I bumped this back up to the top so you will not have to search.
Had a thought today of talking to our mayor, a family friend, and suggesting he look into electric carts for city services, specially Chariot Carts!
I think that might be illegal, this is, my pushing CLSI for personal profit... However, I am a known rule breaker!
Last I looked, which has been years, our city uses those gas fired Cushman carts. Don't know what they use today. Parking, meter reading, even some trash service would be better served, economically, with electric carts.
Maybe this will catch on with gas so pricey.
Clearly CLSI is thinking and their timing is good.
I have not finished my research but I have decided to buy based on what I read and your suggestion.
Looks to be good for, at least, a bounce back up to .55 to .60 per technical charts. Fairly decent history of predictable bouncing. There is comfort in this risk taking knowing they are profitable.
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To help you feel better, Blue, I also miss some stocks by one or two cents.
I tried this one at .47 but then it jumped up .48 and continued. I will try again in the morning.
So far, I have not found any negatives about this company, nothing which causes anxiety. I am about to go back through their information to discover lenders to look for Cornell and others like them.
Volume was acceptable today. I am comfortable with their average volume; very workable.
Again, recent charting looks good for periodic bouncing. If anything, there is good potential for playing bounces, maybe once a month.
I have not found much of anything which indicates their share price will fall dramatically. Looks they may be at their current bottom support.
quote:Originally posted by Purl Gurl: To help you feel better, Blue, I also miss some stocks by one or two cents.
heh but i'm the dual master of:
1) miss a huge runner by a fraction of a cent (CYDS and SUWN in particular come to mind, many others though)
2) if i do catch one - sell it way too early
ah well, live and learn - trying to stop my habit of watering the weeds and weeding out the flowers, or whatever that old saying is.
agree re: TCRS and swing candidate. clearly i should have sold my position from the .40's in the .60's, but - hindsight and 20/20. have two portions now: one for swing trade, and another long. i like companies that trade for 3x trailing earnings. admittedly TCRS is a pink sheet, but - as you noted in some other threads, there's different kinds of pink sheet stocks. most are garbage, but - several i've owned for awhile i consider good quality stocks, ie: BOGN, TCRS, CNSI. BOGN i'm particularly fond of - they've paid some nice dividends over the last few years.
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Blue, CLSI appears to becoming more aggressive with their news. This is most news they have released over such a short period of time.
This is fairly decent news, nothing major but "should" improve their financial bottom line. We shall see next 10Q.
Slow & steady growth, this cannot be argued.
May 11, 2006 15:12:01 (ET)
DENVER, May 11, 2006 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Clancy Systems International, Inc.'s (Pink Sheets: CLSI) wholly owned subsidiary in Puerto Rico, Urban Transit Solutions Inc. (UTS), has announced an expansion in one of the six cities UTS has under contract there. UTS President and CEO Kenneth Stewart said, "The city of Cauguas, PR, has verified its satisfaction with UTS operation of the city's parking programs by asking UTS to increase the number of on-street metered spaces by 30 percent."
Stewart said the expansion will mean an increase of revenue to the city of at least 20 percent. In addition, UTS expects to begin operating an hourly parking lot in Cauguas in June.
Clancy Chairman Stanley Wolfson said, "The potential for UTS in Puerto Rico is very encouraging. The management staff overseeing the six city programs have gained valuable experience over the past few years and have made programs successful for the cities and for UTS."
Stewart added, "We are expanding programs in other contract cities and anticipate installing more meters and adding ticket issuance to cities not currently doing enforcement."
UTS provide turnkey parking operations including installation, management and enforcement duties to municipalities. The company also recently began to expand to the off-street market with daily and monthly parking operations in Puerto Rico.
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i saw this PG, interesting. probably a good use of the word "potential" for UTS - so far UTS hasn't panned out too well for CLSI although they've at least improved. will be interesting to see if they can turn to a black-ink contributor to CLSI down the road.
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CEO quoted: "Some orders that we expected to work on in the first quarter were recently awarded and will be performed during subsequent quarters of this year. We expect our quarterly profitability to improve during the year as a result of this."
stock stayed flat on this combo of slighly disappointing results/good guidance, was actually hoping for a steeper dip to add on. maybe if the market tanks some more next week and there is much general gnashing of teeth, IAIC will dip to the low .50's, we'll see. company looks pretty solid to me.
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i agree, was just looking over. CLSI got a little derailed last year imho, for example they had a long string of profitable Q's broken. but - looks to be slowly but surely getting back on track. particularly nice to see the increase in revs. put a few buy orders out at .0135 and .014, no fill today but maybe tomorrow. always hard to guess the block sizes that might get filled on CLSI, so i generally put a few out of different sizes.
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Yes, a very decent 10Q filing. Not spectacular, not a shaker and a mover, but rather confirmation of slow, steady progress towards an improving bottom line and expanding their market hold.
I am very pleased with CLSI progress. A few more 10Q filings like last night's and CLSI might move up a penny! HA!
This filing is one of their best, to date.
Still standing strong behind my words CLSI is a very good super long term hold, a good college fund investment or similar. I truly believe CLSI is a very safe investment for excess money which can just sit and collect dust without causing problems.
DENVER, Aug 14, 2006 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Clancy Systems International, Inc. (Pink Sheets: CLSI) has begun registering drivers in Coral Gables, Fla., for an extensive Park-by-Phone program for the city. Coral Gables had tested a cell phone program previously, and because of the success of the program, has contracted with Clancy to provide the services on a full-scale basis.
Clancy is now installing the meter decals and accepting permit registrations at its www.parkinghelp.com Web address. Permits are being mailed and the program will begin service in approximately two weeks.
The Park-by-Phone program allows a registered permit-holder to park, in a location that is identified as an official Park-by-Phone location, by dialing into a toll-free number. The caller is identified and confirmed and then a location number is entered along with the amount of time desired to park. The permit-holder is billed once each month for the prior month's usage. The annual registration for the permit processing is $5.95. The customer is billed a 10% surcharge on all parking booked through the service.
Clancy's Park-by-Phone program currently operates in many cities and college campuses. The same permit can be used in any city.
SOURCE: Clancy Systems International, Inc.
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