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“Hyper-Fi” — Oxford Club “Guarantees” Stock will Rise at least $3

What's the solution to the latest Oxford Club tease?

By Travis Johnson, Stock Gumshoe, September 2, 2015

Several readers are asking about this one today, so we’re republishing this article from February 2 below. The ad in question is mostly unchanged, mostly what they’ve done is update the numbers slightly (first they teased a $10 stock, then a $12 stock, then $10 again, now $12 again… it’s been a volatile six months)… but the company teased is still the same, and it’s up slightly from when Oxford Club first pitched it but they are now laying it on thicker with email versions of the ad saying “But if you had to look at just one stock today, it should be this one…” and “We’re guaranteeing you this stock will gain another $3 a share.”

They did report earnings that moved the stock a bit… their first quarter missed expectations and bumped the stock down, the second quarter beat expectations and moved the stock back up at the end of July, and since then it’s been tied to the general gyrations of the market (so it’s down a bit more, recently). Beyond that, you’re on your own — the following article from 2/2/15 has not been updated or revised.

This one caught the attention of several readers over the weekend, with lots of those 4,000% and 5,000% attention-getting numbers that make you dream of yachts and private planes… and, as luck would have it, one of our fantastic readers sent in a quick nicely-rounded look at it along with his solution, so I can share that with you in a moment, trying to make this speedy so we can get it out before we lose power as Winter Storm Linus blankets us with snow.

Heh heh. Sorry, that blanket pun is courtesy of Mrs. Gumshoe. We’re all stuck here together in a weather lockdown on Gumshoe Mountain and getting a little punchy. I’m guessing it it will be a while before the plows can even make it to our driveway… and presumably the plow drivers are all a little hung-over from celebrating the Super Bowl last night.

So what’s that ad? It’s from the Oxford Club in an ad for their basic membership and subscription to The Communique, and they’re talking up the crisis of “too much data” …

“‘Hyper-Fi’

“The Only Solution to the Devastating $1.5 Trillion Wi-Fi Shortage Coming to the Internet

“Only one company owns a monopoly on this patented technology

“Research proves the demand for this market will soon surge 5,400%

“Here’s why I calculate this $10 stock will will see revenues rise 4,445% along with it.”

The “overwhelmed wireless networks” spiel has certainly been used before, to justify everything from the cell tower companies (AMT and the like) to Qualcomm (QCOM) to various technology stocks that claim an edge on speeding up the internet or the mobile networks, or the devices that connect to these networks. It seems very unlikely that there’s one solution, or that one standard developed by a little company will dominate the solution… but, well, hope springs eternal. S

Some more hype and clues if you’re playing along at home:

“… by 2020, research shows each person will own at minimum 50 Internet-connected gadgets… maybe even more!

“The GSM Association estimates connecting nearly 25 billion devices by 2020, while Cisco and Ericsson think we will hit 50 billion….

“The current wireless system can’t handle it all.

“And very soon, we’re going to run out of capacity.

“You may have experienced some of the early consequences already…

  • Not being able to make a phone call when you’re at a sporting event or airport…
  • Internet that comes to a grinding halt when you get more than two computers on one network…
  • Interruptions and dropped signals when you are watching videos online…
  • Picking up someone else’s radio in your car…

Or when, just for example, you’re chugging away at work on a snow day and the rest of the house us full of people watching Netflix streams on mobile devices.

So what’s the solution? Well, of course there we come to our “one small company” ….

“A humble company out of California has created – and perhaps more importantly, patented – a type of supersignal…

“It’s a next-level version of Wi-Fi we like to call ‘Hyper-Fi.’

“And what it does is quite remarkable…

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“Think of it like the difference between a TV antenna and cable.

“With a TV antenna, there are all kinds of distortions. Signals get crossed. Energy outlets like microwaves warp the reception. Everything has to be perfect for it to work right.

“With cable, you get your own direct signal that ensures a constant, clear signal.

“Hyper-Fi works the same way. It uses a focused ‘dynamic’ beam to give users a powerful signal unlike anything offered in the current wireless world. It’s like having an ‘invisible wire’ going straight to your device.”

And…

“As the lone holder of this patented technology, this company has more customers coming in than it can handle.”

So that sounds kinda exciting. How about a few more specific clues to get us to the name of the stock?

“… we calculate the wireless market is going to swell to $1.5 trillion by 2020.

“For the moment, Cisco gets the lion’s share of that figure.

“But it doesn’t have the patented Hyper-Fi technology this company owns.

“Consider… the company behind Hyper-Fi only went public in 2012. And it’s already nipping at Cisco’s heels….

“… this is a $900 million company… with about $330 million in revenue….

“In the most recent quarter, net income soared 151%. Gross margins are near 70%.

“And quarterly earnings growth is already up a mind-blowing 6,135% year over year.

“And yet the stock still trades for only $10 because it is just getting off the ground floor with this technology.”

Now, yes, the Thinkolator can get a solution to this one for you too — but an alert reader sent in his own summary of the stock over the weekend, and I checked and he’s right about the stock, so I’ll let him sum it up for you since I haven’t researched the company yet… this following in italics comes from a reader, Tom, who’s been with us since the very beginning of Stock Gumshoe (that was way back in 2007, if you’re curious):

IT APPEARS this is Ruckus Wireless, Inc.(RKUS), which meets the criteria IPO 2012, (near) $10/sh., market cap $891M ~ $900M. The company is a carrier-class Wi-Fi access provider, as seen Yahoo! http://finance.yahoo.com/q/pr?s=RKUS+Profile

Caught my curiosity, so did some digging and thought I’d pass it along. Couldn’t match up the astounding earnings growth referenced, though growth appears solidly above value having a very low PEG, with 2014 earnings average estimate of $0.44 (which provides for a PE of 24) and 2015 of $0.60 (December), giving it a growth rate of 36 (0.6/0.44-1)*100, or valuation 50% below growth. So in 1 year will it be 50% higher, or ~$15/sh.?

Zacks gives it a 2 “buy”.

GuruFocus does not seem to support the Yahoo data, suggesting to me a lower value.

If RKUS is in a range, it is currently at the bottom of it and so would be worth looking for a buy entry. Looking back more than a year, RKUS tends to move up 2 to 3 weeks prior to earnings, then pull back. It has already moved up the last 2 weeks. The earnings are due out in 2 more, on 2/10/15.

Back to Travis now — Tom’s right about it being Ruckus that’s touted by the Oxford Club folks… it is posting those numbers, it is a fairly young company, it trades for about 25X current-year earnings and analysts think it’ll grow earnings at 15-20% in the future… and it has beaten earnings estimates handily for four quarters in a row but still has a pretty moribund share price, so I have no idea what will happen when they report earnings a week from tomorrow.

And back to September now — the stock hasn’t beaten estimates four quarters in a row anymore — the last three quarters have included one beat and two “in line,” the stock is still at about 25% 2015 earnings and about 20% 2016 earnings estimates, analyst expectations are for a dip in sales and earnings this year followed by a resurgence of growth next year. I’ve left the original comments appended to this updated article, so you can see what your fellow readers have been thinking about Ruckus and its prospects.

For disclosure’s sale, I now personally own some long-dated call options on RKUS — I won’t sell them within a week of the republished date of this teaser solution.

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Brian
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March 13, 2015 11:08 am

Here’s a very informative video describing the technology, and they really sound like an honest company with a good (great?) product. I’m certainly going to start watching them and learn more about their products.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jn0_QzJHahk

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pbrophy
March 13, 2015 5:27 pm

from many conversations: insider sales are a sign of the San Jose CA culture – stock options galore is part of the compensation package – don’t like to see options exercised and sold, but there is always more where they came from, so to speak, from the employees perspective. On their “secret sauce” (or “moat” if you want to call it that) – its the software handling the antenna signals that results in a better bandwidth utilization, including less interference. The takeover of ARUN creates some “scarcity value” (maybe). It’s all about mobile devices up and downloading video content which mucks up the wi fi environment – the poor “user experience” results in consumer complaints to the service provider – hence the move to increase bandwideth at the “edge” of the network using either wi fi or the newest “small cell” concept (or a combination).

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fedwatcher
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fedwatcher
March 13, 2015 11:25 pm

After watching https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jn0_QzJHahk I get what RKUS has and its limitations.

First, if your local Starbuks installs this, more people will be on Netflix while drinking their Late. As a Starbuks, is this what you want?

If you are a stock trading room, you do not want this, rather you want hard wired connections to a switch and all WiFi on hard wired devices disabled. Little need for a RKUS access point.

If you want to set-up multi-station users without the expense of wiring, this is a good solution. Remember that you are still limitted by the signal from your ISP and the limits of 802.11n.

If you have lots of people in your house all with multiple WiFi devices, maybe. If it is just you, forget about it. Remember what can be delivered is first determined by your ISP and speeds are increasing making RKUS no longer relevant accept for many simultaneus iPhone users.

So where is the opportunity?

Short-term none, long-term it depends on AT&T, VZ, and municipal WiFi.

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vShah
June 22, 2015 11:13 am
Reply to  fedwatcher

At my company, they are looking to replace our internal access points with this technology (802.11ac Wave 2) to increase the bandwidth in our offices, where pretty much all workers have laptops and usually go wireless. But the thinking is to wait until our normal vendor (CISCO) comes out with its own hardware. I think this technology definitely has a bright future, but I’m not sure that Ruckus will win big just because it has a 6-12 month head start.

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David Schultz
March 14, 2015 11:39 pm

Stocharts point&figure chart shows a bearish price objective of 5.5.

galshafat
galshafat
March 16, 2015 3:57 pm

travis do you suggest using smartstops etc for risk management ?

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Glenn
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March 17, 2015 11:29 am

I bought this stock on their recommending it and sold it at a loss a while ago. If this was such a great company why are the saying it will only rise to $15? If this tech. company was so great the stock should be heading for the sky but it isn’t. I think most of the stocks hyped rise because they convince their readers to invest in it just like penny stocks and that alone drives the stock higher.

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klefty
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March 22, 2015 8:41 pm

Glenn I have asked that same question lately about OC. I’ve become distrusting of their recommendations and will not renew when my subscription comes due later on. Not only that I have seen the original group of newsletters change name and/or move to a higher level of subscription than I am currently at

Glenn
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March 23, 2015 12:18 pm
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Henry I have always thought that if these advisers were so great why make a news letter just invest their own money on their picks. If they are that good then they should be able to retire within a few years a millionaire.

Ed B
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Ed B
March 23, 2015 12:54 pm
Reply to  Glenn

Exactly Glenn…I’ve said that for years. I remember when Agora was first starting. They hyped buying property in Costa Rica. Then they were looking for writers for their HYPE articles. They pay their writers big money. Long and windy. Any time I see something that goes on and on I dismiss it immediately. The paid to hype guys generally…was going to say always…put the disclaimers at the very bottom which most never get to. Anyway…they know there are so many that look for those multi-thousand percent return projections and that’s how they build their subscription annuities.

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Ed M
March 23, 2015 6:34 pm

I’d like to subscribe to stock gumshoe. how do i get the free one? what does the paid version provide that the free one doesn’t.? It seems a good way to screen out the letters.
It makes sense that if someone had a full proof method to make money in the market, why sell it? The less who know the better. Some may do it so they don’t have to invest alot of their money as there is always risk.

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March 24, 2015 1:11 pm
Reply to  Ed M

I find excellent information with Forbes as they discuss everything from current to future companies moving forward and the price is very low. Looking for years at all the information out there I find them one of the best.

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Taylor Hilton
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Taylor Hilton
March 23, 2015 11:16 pm

Thanks Gumshoe,
In my opinion, you and your readers, are the only ones of value to me.
All the other companies like your Oxford Clubs and your Agora’s are a bunch of crooked fonies.They can’t be trusted. We all invest for the same reason, to make money.
Thanks to you and all your gumshoers!
Regards,
T. Hilton

cutaboard2
May 6, 2015 2:42 pm

What an outstanding pick, only $10.10 today. Thanks Travis for helping us to not fall for these teasers.

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the richard
May 10, 2015 8:55 pm

SOME OF THE RESPONDERS SEEM TO BE CONFUSED AS TO WHAT IS INVESTING AND WHAT IS SPECULATION I VIEW THIS AS PURE SPECULATION AND AS SUCH, IT GETS A 50% STOP LOSS THE PEOPLE TO WHOM I LISTEN CAREFULLY REMIND ALL THEIR CLIENTS OF THE DIFFERENCE AND TO MAKE ALLOWANCES FOR SUCH SPECULATION IS DICEY AT BEST, BUT NO, I WOULD NOT RUN OUT ON THIS ONE AT 20% AS IT IS SURELY A SPECULATION AND I WOULD NEVER HAVE BOUGHT IT AT $15 EITHER

wkho noze
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May 23, 2015 1:04 am

BEWARE WHEN DEALING W// AGORA SKOURSEN, OXFORD CLUB NOTE-=at one tyme they were aderising $5000 w// get you all thir publications

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Slick Rick
July 8, 2015 9:18 am

Based on what i read here , I am CANCELLING my $39 subscription to the Oxford Income Letter, and asking for a refund! Basically they give you a cheap newsletter , and then they bother you with solicitations for more expensive newsletters.

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4olbear
January 19, 2016 12:18 pm
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I agree with Slick but isn’t that pretty much the norm for most of them?

PATRICIA ANN VASQUEZ
August 29, 2015 6:17 pm

RKUS is a big risk. It surely IS NOT the answer. It’s bottomed out twice for me. NO WAY would I recommend it! RISKY,RISKY at this time and date.

Karl
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Karl
August 30, 2015 11:31 pm

Generally, patent protection for a new company producing a communications product like this is not all that big a barrier to competition, because it is very likely that the product they are producing may require patent licenses from other companies in the industry, so the patent will have be licensed out in a cross-licensing deal. Companies like Cisco and Qualcom hold hundreds of patents, some of which would likely impact the new product and provide leverage for a cross-license with the new company. Then, they could produce the product cheaper and market it better through their established distrubution lines.

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stephenachen
September 2, 2015 3:08 pm

In my current job assignment, we work with Ruckus. About 80% of their revenues come from China. It will be interesting to see their report and observe whether or not the slowdown in China has been affecting them.

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PATRICIA ANN VASQUEZ
September 2, 2015 8:29 pm

I’ve backed away 3 times with RKUS. They are 3-time losers. If ANYONE ever profits
with RKUS. BLESS YOU and enjoy!!! I’m thrilled for you. To me they are great big losers. Enough said by me.

thinairmony
September 29, 2015 11:31 pm

Ruckus has the patent. Patent last 20yrs. General FAQs | USPTO – United States Patent and Trademark Office
http://www.uspto.gov/learning-and-resources/general-faqs
For applications filed on or after June 8, 1995, utility and plant patents are granted for a term which begins with the date of the grant and usually ends 20 years from the date you first applied for the patent subject to the payment of appropriate maintenance fees for a utility . The need of broader bands is not a big problem right now. Say 4 years becomes big problem. Ruckus has patent for hyper-fi. To open up band space. Buy 500 shares at $13.00 a share is $6500 investment. 4 yrs later price has inflated by demand of patented hyper-fi is at $70.00 a share (conservative) figure. $70.00 a share x500 shares is $35,000.00 from $6500 investment.

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Joni Raskin
May 11, 2016 11:52 am

Your website doesn’t accept the emails for “free” offerings…what a scam….fix that or go away

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