Is Your Company Ready To Go Public?Written by William Cate
Is Your Company Ready to Go Public? By William Cate Published November 1998 [http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/] [http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/globalvillageinvestmentclubwelcome/]You're not ready, unless you can afford to go public. Do you have money? If you don't have money, where do you expect to find it? You should budget about $1.25 million to do an IPO (Initial Public Offering). You can buy an OTCBB Trading shell with 90% control for $450,000. You should add another $250,000 to cover your SEC S-4 Filing costs and your "Due Diligence" evaluation of shell. You'll need a way to do your Private Placement financing once your S-4 gets by U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). You can do a spinoff. It costs $250,000. I arrange an Offshore Private Placement financing for my spinoffs. If you can't pay to go public, you aren't ready to go public. Until your company is making money, you aren't ready to go public. Cash flow is credibility. If your company lacks credibility, it's hard to find investors and shareholders. Stock hype is a dangerous way to try to build your startup company.
| | Investing in the Stock MarketWritten by Charles M. O'Melia
There are several factors an investor in stock market should consider: 1. All stock purchases should be commission-free. 2. All stocks purchased should be from a company that has a history of raising their dividends every year. 3. The company should not only have a history of raising their dividends every year, but should also show price appreciation in market place. 4. All dividends from these companies should be rolled-over into more shares of their company, until you retire. This should all be done by companies, automatically, for stockholder, commission-free. 5. The companies purchased should have staggered pay-out dividend dates, so dividend income by 12 companies will provide shareholder a cash dividend income every week of year. 6. A systematic approach of dollar-cost averageing into each stock (your dividends from each company will be doing this automatically)should be done on a quarterly basis. A savings plan should be adopted to add to your holdings every quarter, along with the dividend reinvestment. 7. Stocks purchased should pay a dividend yield of at least 2.0% or better. A low 2.0% dividend yield isn't necessarily bad because it means company in question is using most of their profits to expand. In other words,it's a growth stock with business, profits and earnings growing. A growth stock makes up for lower dividend yield because their stock prices will more than likely rise faster. 8. The company should have been in business at least eight years, showing dividend increases each year. This will eliminate risk involved in putting money into a risky new start up company (the type of company that is going to change world- they are just too hard to find). 9. The company must have a stock dividend reinvestment plan (DRIP). If dividend paid by company is $2.63 for quarter, all of that money will purchase a further percentage of shares(partial shares) and this is done automatically for you by company or their transfer agent. 10. The companies you purchase should be purchased with intent of realizing increasing cash dividends for you and your family for rest of your lives. Below is an 'excerpt' from my book 'The Stockopoly Plan' soon to be released by American-Book Publishing, and I would like to share it with you. Have you ever noticed how some words in English language are so perfectly named for what they describe? And how some words seem to be, I guess you could say, backwards? For instance, word 'sunflower'! How wonderfully aptly named is sunflower, that beautiful yellow flower that follows sun fron sunrise to sunset.
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