WeeZuhl
6 hours ago
If Mikah is sold to a public company there can be no secret Mikah check.
You are correct, JamesF1, and this is precisely what I mean by Second Tier Suitors as a major component of the Mikah Tax. The top public companies will take a pass as soon as they hear about Mikah. There will be no top tier offers because none of them will want to involve themselves with this oddball CEO or his private company. Negotiations will be with second tier suitors from nonpublic entities who will have no qualms about making a lucrative secret side deal for Mikah while getting a nice discount for public Elite. As long as Mikah exists, it will be Hakim #1 and shareholders not.
I will also point out, JamesF1, that Elite is a public company, and as you say, if Mikah is sold to Elite (again!) then there can be no secret Mikah check. The only hope for any kind of transparency for Elite shareholders is if Mikah is dealt with BEFORE the buyout. He could announce the deal and hold a vote from which he is recused. Why not deal with Mikah in a transparent way? Who benefits from a secret deal? Elite does not need Mikah, but Mikah is nothing without Elite. It's time to get rid of Mikah forever. Repeal the Mikah Tax.
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WeeZuhl
7 hours ago
This is the meat of the matter:
...But you look at what is in the total liabilities and there's one thing that jumps out at you and it's the derivative liability for the warrants. That increase that went from 9 to 22,000,000.
... I've mentioned this before, but the derivative liabilities are related to the warrants and they're valued using the Black Scholes method and they essentially the level of liability varies directly with our stock price. If the price goes up, the price per share goes up, the liability goes up. If the price per share goes down, the liability goes down.
...So first of all, it's not possible to remove the warrants from the financials as GAAP requires that we account for them and we present them as we are presenting them. So the balance sheet, the cash flow, the P and L statement, they all have to take into consideration the warrants and it can't be excluded.
The CFO tends to meander and muddle the message, but the gist is simple. As our share price increases, so do the liabilities for Hakim's warrants, which drags down the net income. The benefits of net income that should accrue to shareholders are cancelled out by the warrant liabilities, and that includes market value and ultimate buyout price. I predict the depressed income numbers will be just one of the excuses for a disappointing buyout price; meanwhile, Hakim will deposit that secret Mikah check at his private bank.
The CFO is wrong to say there is no way to remove the warrants from the financials. There is a very obvious way-- once Hakim exercises the warrants then they immediately disappear as an ongoing liability for the rest of Elite shareholders. He doesn't have to put up any cash, but he does have to exchange shares. The longer he waits, the fewer shares he will need to forfeit. Again and again and again it's Hakim #1 and Elite shareholders somewhere down the list.
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$7.00 or Nothing
8 hours ago
This is not AI - This is the CFO on record:
Explain the variance in liabilities since the June quarter. So total liabilities in June were 29.6 and the total liabilities in September were 40.9. So that's $11,000,000 increase. But you look at what is in the total liabilities and there's one thing that jumps out at you and it's the derivative liability for the warrants. That increase that went from 9 to 22,000,000.
So that increased by almost $13,000,000 So while my total liabilities increased by $11,000,000 the derivative component of that increased by $13,000,000 So if you take that out, the overall liabilities actually went down. And let me just say one thing on the derivatives. I've mentioned this before, but the derivative liabilities are related to the warrants and they're valued using the Black Scholes method and they essentially the level of liability varies directly with our stock price. If the price goes up, the price per share goes up, the liability goes up. If the price per share goes down, the liability goes down.
In June, our stock price was $19,900,000 in September, our stock price was $38,800,000 it almost doubled over this quarter. Now we're I don't know where we are right now, but around $0.50. So thank you everybody for bringing our stock price up. One of the effects is because of the calculation, the liability goes up. But always keep in mind when you see this liability, it is a noncash item.
There will never ever, ever be cash involved with this liability, just something that we record, to comply with GAAP. So instead of looking at the total liabilities, I really focus more on the ratio between liabilities and assets, especially the the working capital of the current liability. Current liabilities as compared to current assets, That's all working capital. That's my main area of focus. We have large investments as you'll see in inventory and receivables.
Generally, as those increase, you're also going to see an increase in accounts payable and accrued liabilities. They kind of track with each other. The important thing is you always want to have more on the asset side than the liability side. That's a surplus. That's your working capital.
The larger the surplus, the better it is. The more liquid we are, the stronger our balance sheet is. And we have a $32,000,000 surplus as of September 30, and that surplus grew by more than $5,000,000 this quarter alone. So, that's the metric I'm most focused on with regards to liabilities and it does show our balance sheet is strengthening. I think I have one other question on the warrant liability or the warrants in general and that was related to asking are we going to shift to an adjusted EBITDA disclosure reporting with that excluding the warrant impact on EBITDA.
So first of all, it's not possible to remove the warrants from the financials as GAAP requires that we account for them and we present them as we are presenting them. So the balance sheet, the cash flow, the P and L statement, they all have to take into consideration the warrants and it can't be excluded. But what you're referring to with an adjusted EBITDA is really, what's known as a non GAAP financial measure and that would have to be presented in footnote manner and not part of the core four financial statements, something separate in the footnote, and that's not something we're considering at this time. Everyone I speak to regarding Elite Financials, they evaluate the warrants and their impacts separately depending upon the nature of analysis that they are conducting. So we disclose as per GAAP, the warrants are easily identified and who's ever evaluating our company can either include them or exclude them depending upon the nature of their evaluations.
That's really what happens. So to sum things up, our financials continue on the growth trajectory. Revenues are up, profits are up, working capital is increasing, debt is low, the balance sheet is strengthening, cash flow that we're generating internally is funding future growth, the pipeline is progressing and positioned to maintain an upward trajectory. So all in all, it was quite a good quarter.