TKO came across my thought process the other day-- I was wondering if this was wrestling it is!! Combined with UFC.. I somehow missed this super big sports story. UFC is not nearly as good these days.// I got to say the wrestling is pretty good! My wife catches me attimes watching the ladies go at it. That Special Dividend -- is it worth grabbing? TKO Announces Special Cash Dividend Wed, September 13, 2023, 8:00 AM EDT NEW YORK, September 13, 2023--(BUSINESS WIRE)--TKO Group Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: TKO) ("TKO" or the "Company"), a premium sports and entertainment company, today announced that it has declared a special cash dividend pursuant to the terms of the transaction agreement between UFC and WWE, which provides for a special one-time dividend on TKO’s shares of Class A common stock, funded by an intracompany cash distribution to TKO prior to the consummation of the transaction. The dividend to TKO’s Class A common stockholders will be $3.86 per share, payable on September 29, 2023 to TKO’s Class A common stockholders of record as of September 22, 2023.
APPS-- Yesterday option activity was bullish for APPS why? The stock is truly in the dumps.-- Today insider buy. Does one follow the other or the other follow the one? Digital Turbine director buys $50K in common stock » 19:15 APPS STOCK OF THE DAY Novonix achieves key milestones with synthetic graphite » 20:07 NVX-- Synthetic graphite can be used in EV batteries! <---- Synthetic graphite for EV batteries: Can the West crack China's code? Novonix Limited (NVX) NasdaqGM - NasdaqGM Delayed Price. 1.8600+0.0500(+2.76%) At close: September 14 03:59PM EDT 2.14 00+0.28(+15.05%) <------------------- Pre-Market:08:06AM EDT (Reuters) - New investments in the United States and Europe aim to challenge China’s stranglehold on a key ingredient used in most electric vehicle batteries – graphite – but industry experts said that will be an uphill battle. The focus is shifting to a new front: Synthetic graphite, an element developed in the late 19th century, but only redirected toward EVs in the past decade. Its application is growing quickly. Synthetic graphite could account for nearly two-thirds of the EV battery anode market by 2025, estimates Benchmark Mineral Intelligence. Each EV on average needs 50-100 kg (110-220 pounds) of graphite in its battery pack for the anodes, the negative electrodes of a battery, about twice the amount of lithium. While the market for synthetic graphite is expected to grow more than 40% over the next five years to $4.2 billion in 2028, according to researcher Mordor Intelligence, companies looking to carve out a new direction face formidable competition from China. That country refines more than 90% of the world’s natural graphite — used in virtually all EV battery anodes — and Chinese battery materials giants such as BTR and Shanshan are investing hundreds of millions of dollars to ramp up production of synthetic graphite. The introduction of synthetic graphite in the battery supply chain “is mature and commercially successful in China,” said analyst Victoria Hugill of UK-based researcher Rho Motion. “It's dumbfounding, especially on the anode side, to see the number and the scale of participants” in China, said Chris Burns, chief executive officer of Australian battery materials supplier Novonix . “Guys like BTR and Shanshan just keep growing out of proportion to the rest of the world.” While Chinese producers control a significant share of the small, but growing synthetic graphite market, newcomers such as U.S.-based Anovion, Novonix, and Norway's Vianode are being driven by two factors, said Hugill. "It’s easier to set up a synthetic graphite production facility than it is to commission new mining sites for natural graphite” because producers can take advantage of incentives in last year's U.S. Inflation Reduction Act to build synthetic graphite capacity in the U.S. or Free Trade Agreement partners, she said. And new facilities don’t need to be located near a graphite mine, she said. New synthetic graphite production operations in the United States, including Anovion’s $800 million plant in Bainbridge, Georgia, and Novonix’s $160 million plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, will benefit from U.S. incentives included in the IRA and the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, executives said. Vianode, owned by Norsk Hydro, battery maker Elkem and Altor Equity Partners, aims to build synthetic graphite facilities in both Europe and North America, with enough capacity to supply up to 2 million EVs a year by 2030. It's a unique proposition: A production process powered by renewable energy, with a carbon footprint 90% lower than that of Chinese graphite refiners, according to Hans Erik Vatne, a former Hydro executive, now interim CEO/COO of Vianode. The Vianode process could dispel concerns that synthetic graphite's production process, traditionally based on fossil fuels, is not sustainable. Vatne also cites the benefits of synthetic graphite: Faster charging and longer battery life. Other experts note synthetic graphite is generally higher purity and offers better and more predictable performance than natural graphite. And the price gap between the two has narrowed significantly this year, driving producers to blend even more synthetic material into their battery anodes, which still represent less than 10% of the cost of an EV battery cell. The growing need for clean, consistent battery material “is one of the main drivers for synthetic graphite,” according to battery expert Bob Galyen, founder of Galyen Energy and former chief technology officer of China’s CATL, the world’s largest EV battery maker. Still, the construction of new production facilities for synthetic graphite, even with federal incentives, requires a staggering investment, said Novonix's Burns. “The biggest challenge that our industry faces is the amount of capital that has to flow to make a dent in the supply chain.” In the meantime, China will continue to dominate synthetic graphite production, according to researcher Fastmarkets, which forecasts Chinese production of the material will grow from about 1.6 million metric tons this year to 2 million in 2030. “The real truth is China will be the biggest player in this market for the next 10 or 20 years,” said Burns. “The balance of supply and demand is and will remain absurdly askew for the balance of this decade in terms of North American options.”
TINY COMPANIES THAT FEED INTO THE OIL & GAS MEGAPLEX... They look tasty.. Company Profile Flotek Industries, Inc. operates as a technology-driven chemistry and data company that serves customers across industrial, commercial, and consumer markets in the United States, the United Arab Emirates, and internationally. It operates in two segments, Chemistry Technologies (CT) and Data Analytics (DA). The CT segment designs, develops, manufactures, packages, distributes, delivers, and markets green specialty chemicals that enhance the profitability of hydrocarbon producers, as well as green specialty chemistries and logistics and technology services. This segment primarily serves integrated oil and gas, oilfield services, independent oil and gas, national and state-owned oil, geothermal energy, solar energy, and alternative energy companies. The DA segment designs, develops, produces, sells, and supports equipment and services that create and provide valuable information on the composition and properties of energy customers’ hydrocarbon fluids. It sells its products directly through a mix of in-house sales professionals, as well as contractual agency agreements. The company was incorporated in 1985 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas. >>>>>> I used to own Flowserve and of course buy accident I looked this name up quite abit. The News-> Flotek Industries expects to report positive adjusted EBITDA for the third quarter SA NewsYesterday, 4:37 PM The Stock-> FTK Flotek Industries, Inc. $0.86-0.04(-4.80%)3:58 PM 09/14/23 NYSE |$USD |Pre-Market:$0.85-0.01(-1.39%)8:05 AM
The strange case of MITK. They reported EARNINGS EARLY Sept on the 5th.- before that: on 8/16- Mitek Systems receives noncompliance notice from Nasdaq » 08/16 MITK Then 8/18 Mitek Systems granted request for continued listing by Nasdaq pending compliance » 08/18 Now they report earnings again? 2nd time in a month.... Quite strange I do not get but an obvious attempt to getthe stk over $1.00 listing. But wait the damn stock is $12!!! SO WHY THE DELISTING THREAt? // Why the two earnngsreport in 1 month???? Mitek Systems Non-GAAP EPS of $0.29 beats by $0.07, revenue of $45.3M beats by $6.67M MITK+1.96%Yesterday, 4:10 PM MITK Mitek Systems, Inc. So Good a Gummy it reports earnings twice in a month! $12.99 0.25(+1.96%)4:00 PM 09/14/23 NASDAQ |$USD |Pre-Market:$13.63+0.64(+4.93%)8:00 AM YOUR GUMMY MITK WAIT FOR $13.40 <------------------
TAKE A LOOK FOLKS YOU WON'T FIND THIS KIND OF WORK ANYWHERE ELSE... A STOCK THREAD NEARLY DEAD-?... WE MAKE FOOLS OF THOSE THAT SAY THINGS LIKE THAT........... YOUR OBSCURE STOCKS FOR FRIDAY! WHICH I THOUGHT WAS SAT BECAUSE YESTERDAY I THOUGHT WAS FRIDAY.... <<<<<<<<<<<<<GBA HOT SHEET>>>>>>>>>>>>> RIVN BJ IOVA TKO APPS HPK MITK NVX
Lol Stoney. RIVN and TKO aren't exactly obscure. Or APPS. I put out an obscure stock yesterday though. ARM. Check it out. I'll take a look at that MITK, might be something there. Interesting.