Lone Star Gold, LSTG
by jdallred | December 14, 2011 3:11 pm
What is the story on this new IPO[1] stock?
Endnotes:
- IPO: https://www.stockgumshoe.com/tag/ipo/
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LSTG is a promoted penny stock — it’s likely being driven up and down by penny stock promotion groups, which almost always means there’s very little “there” there (sometimes the promotion comes from within the company to help raise money or let insiders sell, sometimes it’s from outside pump and dump folks who are just trying to manipulate the stock for their own trading profit). I think these stocks are always best avoided, though I know some folks like to try to trade around the huge moves that stock promoters can cause. I suppose there are probably examples of heavily promoted unlisted penny stocks that eventually managed to grow into real companies … but the scams are so prevalent that it seems like a losing and quixotic battle to see if you can find something real in the cesspool.
Being from Lone Star’s hometown of Albuquerque, New Mexico (Surprise! A Very Texas sounding company whose office is In Another State-to be truly fair, there are many staunch “Republic of Texas” folks out there who consider most of NM East of the Rio Grande, which LSTG is, a part of TX-I’m NOT one of them), I will try to be objective and brief here. In addition to being a HEAVILY Pushed Penny Stock-Looking at a slick adfrom John Meyers’ “The Meyers Letter”-basically the same one I get at least bi-weekly Most surprising, I thought, was having this stock pushed by Martin Weiss-although he claims He’s not pushing it-he’s just providing The Platform-not to mention mailing list (Have times REALLY Gotten that hard for you, Marty?) lest we forget all the “Free” Penny Pushers in my email box-at least these two sources were pushing it back when there was still SOME Meat left on the bone-bringing up my only question-Where were all these promoters Before the company posted a ~35,600% gain? Yes-had you REALLY found this when it had lots of potential, you could have turned a meager $1,000 into $365,000. Had you done this-heck, I live ten miles from this company, and I didn’t even hear of them until the latest barrage of pushing-which HAS been going on for around 6 months or more (shoulda checked those Weiss Newsletter dates before I dumped them)-but had YOU gotten in then, I might suggest you only sell about half your stocks at paper pushed highs of about $200,000, and throw them dice-see (with a trailing stop, of course) if this fairly solid penny stock actually DOES Eventually get bought out by neighboring GoldCorp-but then again, you’d be up $200k and playing ALL with house money, if that were the case. Yet, if that WERE the case, I Just Might suggest you buy back another $10,000 in shares on pushed out dips-but only because you’d have netted $189,000-a real 360+ bagger! -and could afford to roll them bones.
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Pump And Dump Alerts – December 23, 2011 – FTEG, SELR, LSTG
By Brian Walker
Friday, December 23, 2011
This week we’re exposing these three popular Pump & Dumps: For The Earth (FTEG), Steele Resources (SELR), and Lone Star Gold (LSTG).
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Now without further ado, here are the rest of this week’s disasters waiting to happen:
For The Earth (FTEG)
Just as soon as I think I’ve seen it all, I come across a company like FTEG. Now, before I dig into the company and the pumper’s promo email…
The one thing that stands out most is that deceased promoter, Billy Mays, still adorns their home page. Come on guys… have a little respect and take poor Billy’s photo down. Apparently FTEG has such little cash, they can’t even pay their web designer, Mandarich Media Group, to update their website for them!
Of course, while on their website, I went to their “Investors” page to see the latest. But there’s nothing there! The only link takes you to an OTC quote for their stock… which by the way is trading for a whopping $0.0006.
And the lack of any information on their website leads me to question the pumper’s latest email…
The Stock Mister fired off an email titled, “For The Earth Adds Another Retailer for Continued Growth in 2012”. And as I read through the email, the pumper cited a “Press Release Source” of For The Earth Corporation.
In this email, the “Press Release” dated 10/24/11 has FTEG’s CEO, Nelson Grist, talking about a retailer their company landed a deal with for 2012. But they never disclose the name of the “major mass retailer”. That’s a red flag right there…
The CEO goes on to say, “I’m eager to announce the identity of this retailer, but that will understandably need to wait…” Really, why do we “understandably need to wait” Nelson? I, for one, question the existence of said “major mass retailer”… and I’m pretty sure plenty of other investors may as well.
Simply put, if a major sales outlet is ready to sell your product… logic would say you’d scream it from the mountain tops! Even better, you’d put that particular press release on your website, and even in your financial filings.
And that brings us to yet another issue with For The Earth… they cancelled their SEC registration back on May 5th last year!
If you’re not convinced yet to stay away from this stock, let me give you one more reason… their financials.
Revenue fell from $145,937 for the first nine months of 2010 to $69,593 for the same period this year. A drop of over 50%! Even worse, expenses rose from $533,768 in 2010 to over $600,000 in 2011 for those same nine month periods.
And the company is really on the ropes right now…
Cash balances, as stated on page seven of their latest financial report amount to just $19,000. The company even states that unless they are successful in raising more cash for operations, the company will survive for “approximately one year”.
It looks to me like For The Earth is headed six feet under the earth!
Steele Resources (SELR)
For some time now, we’ve witnessed company after company entering the mining industry. It reminds me of tech companies back before the bubble burst in 2000.
If you recall, it was IPO after IPO of nonsense tech companies. And then boom… that online poodle grooming website that was a lock to be the next best thing blew up and was actually worthless!
And today we have Steele Resources…
Now before I run through SELR’s disastrous numbers, I have to laugh at the pumper’s email… because it sure does catch your attention. Stock Roach rolled out an email titled, “SELR pays out 70% and I’m already stoked for Monday!”
My first thought after reading this was SELR was a rare penny stock paying out a 70% dividend… must be a productive and undervalued miner!”
But boy was that the farthest thing from the truth!
What our pumper was saying is that Steele Resources shares shot up over 65%. Uh, guys… Finance 101. When you say a stock “pays out”, it means dividend payout… not stock appreciation.
Now on to the heart of the matter… Steele Resources’ numbers.
SELR saw revenue rise from $635 in 2010 to $35,435 as of September 2011. But unfortunately, their liabilities grew as well. In 2010, the company had current liabilities of $379,343. And as of this past quarter, SELR ran the total to over $1.7 million!
It looks like SELR will need to unearth a heck of a lot of ore to dig themselves out of this mess. And you won’t catch me buying any of their shares any time soon!
Lone Star Gold (LSTG)
I’d of thought we’d have run this revenue-free miner clear out of the Wild West by now. Or at least the pumping machine would have run out of steam. Yet somehow my last warning wasn’t loud enough…
That’s because the hype machine is running 24-7… and there’s only one of me. But I’ll promise you now… that won’t keep me from shining the light into dark places.
Before today, I’ve written about LSTG four other times… so this makes number five! And since my latest update on December 9th, the company has found yet another way to rack up more debt!
In a Lone Star Gold press release dated December 20th, the company disclosed they drew down another $200,000 of their $15 million line of equity agreement. It’s the third draw down they’ve taken from North American Gold Corp (NAGC)… their Hong Kong based equity investor. And in turn, LSTG handed over 273,972 shares to NAGC.
How again is that good for shareholders?
Listen, the company still has no revenue… and is living off of equity investments to keep operations running. Someday, they may just find gold in them thar hills.
But here’s some food for thought. I bring your attention back to what LSTG said on page 14 of their latest report…
“The chance of finding gold or other mineral reserves on any individual parcel of land is almost infinitesimal.”
Before setting LSTG up with a $15 million equity line, I wonder if NAGC caught that little detail.
Hmm, makes you kind of wonder…
A final word (and warning).
So that takes care of a few of this week’s inglorious “pump and dumps”.
Remember, there’s a lot more of this going on each week than we highlight here.
As you know, penny stocks are a great place to invest your money. You just have to do your due diligence to stay away from all the scams out there these days!
Until next time,
Brian Walker
Brian,
Please comment on the latest development announced by LSTG…
Andy
Thank you