MIKE18181
1 month ago
Yes, I wrote about Yvonne Briggs IR, and said as I asked a simple question, I started to probe other harder.
Result backed off, and told me to read the Q reports . I called you, because you the Investir relation support. I got more calls gotta go.
This will be sold and the time frame to me looks like 2 qtrs
homeboy
1 month ago
The reason we ask questions directly to management is there is an underlying tone that is not open with this company. I highlighted that with Adam Logal during the conference call mentioning the repurchase of shares. That was a deflection from what was really going on… Yvonne tries to come across as being open at the investor relations department. As a former business owner, I can assure you what you get from investor relations is scripted to what has been publicly released only. Behind the scenes is a different world. We (our team of investors) are betting on some type of buyout. Elias is in his 70s, Frost is near 90. Those are the main characters. Both cut from the same mold…grow the business, then sell it. Very common practice.
What Yvonne tells about the current outstanding shares is only part of the story. In a buyout, many of those reserved shares would also have to be honored. So, being conservative 1,000,000,000 shares at this point would be the buyout amount. For example: a buyout at 7 dollars would represent a 7 billion dollar purchase. Modex has value potential we think. As many here have said, the lab has been a nemesis and OPKO has not reacted fast enough. There was a reason the former owner was happy to sell Bio for 1.5 billion. We can see clearly now. But what remains a mystery is why OPKO continues to fund it at a deficit in the hundreds of millions? On another note…
We will be traveling for a while until mid June to China. Until then, hopefully OPKO will have some good fortune during the interim.
homeboy
1 month ago
I inquired about the specifics to increase the share count:
“The Board has unanimously adopted and declared advisable, and has recommended that the Company's stockholders approve, the Charter Amendment, which would amend the Certificate of Incorporation to increase the number of authorized shares of common stock from 1,000,000,000 to 1,250,000,000.
In addition to the 726,764,700 shares of common stock issued and outstanding (including treasury shares) as of the record date, the Board has reserved an aggregate of 418,733,078 additional shares for future issuance, consisting of the following: (a) 53,731,069 shares reserved for issuance upon the exercise of outstanding employee stock options; (b) 32,912,579 shares reserved for future issuance of awards under the 2016 Equity Incentive Plan; (c) 48,295 shares reserved for issuance upon conversion of the Company's outstanding 4.50% convertible senior notes due 2025 issued in February 2019; (d) 8,489 shares reserved for issuance upon conversion of the Company's outstanding 2033 convertible senior notes issued in January 2013; and (e) 332,032,646 shares reserved for issuance upon conversion of the Company's outstanding 3.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2029 issued in January 2024.
As a result, the Company currently has no authorized but unissued shares of common stock (including treasury shares) that are unreserved and available for future issuance.”
MIKE18181
3 months ago
Homeboy, great post ! It's accurate of what you see, what I see and what institutional investors see, analysts see. .. Everything he buys, it admits something Lacks.. To over compensate for mismanagement.
**Movie theatre analogy, 26 tickets sold to watch the movie and nobody came except Phil Frost. " he bought up 26 movie tickets and sat in an empty theater. The point, somethings needs to be done to get people to come. Denial runs Opko...
MIKE18181
3 months ago
Yes, very good written posts. Search for efficiency. Find ways to see inefficient operations
CFO is an ass pirate, a puppet, a wuss.
CEO is highly ineffective. " if I keep buying shares, I'll get attention. No, the bottom line should bother you dto react . You don't react.
1.00 dollar or 98 cent company.
Buyout, replace the CEO , or go under..
Acsale looks correct. 690m × 5 00 a share buyout is 3.5 billion. Maybe..
homeboy
3 months ago
Here’s what happened:
“ Effective January 22, 2024, OPKO Health, Inc. (the “Company”) terminated its share lending agreement, dated as of February 4, 2019 (the “ShareLendingAgreement”), entered into with Jefferies Capital Services, LLC (the “Share Borrower”), pursuant to which the Company lent to the Share Borrower approximately 30 million shares of its common stock, par value $0.01 per share in connection with the 2019 issuance of its $200.0 million aggregate principal amount of convertible promissory notes due
2025. The amount of outstanding borrowed shares was subsequently reduced by approximately 8,313,000 shares and, concurrent with the termination of the Share Lending Agreement, all shares have been returned to the Company to be held as treasury shares.”