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Tuesday, July 12, 2005

Bonal Technologies (BONL)

In the "companies most in need of a name change" department, this would seem like a good investment (website) selling for less than 50 cents with a 14 cent profit, but I did some checking and their patent was issued in 1990 and will be expiring soon (4,968,359):
A method of stress relieving metal parts that includes the steps of applying mechanical cyclic vibration energy to a part over a test frequency range while monitoring the damping effects of energy flowing into the part as a function of frequency. A plurality of orders of harmonic vibration absorption peaks are identified, each consisting of a plurality of vibration absorption resonant peaks, employing a vibration transducer having a response that is dampened to distinguish the harmonic peaks from the resonant peaks. A sub-harmonic stress relief frequency is identified as a function of such frequency response and the composition of the part in question, and mechanical cyclic vibration energy is applied to the part for an extended time period at the sub-harmonic frequency so identified.

I only found that one patent assigned to "bonal".

UPDATE: Today they just happened to announce a 4 cent dividend, sending the shares up to 90 cents, more than a 2-bagger.

Comments:
I've been following your blog quite closely (and your posts on TMF before that...)

When you get a chance, I'd be curious to see your thoughts on AirTrax - AITX. It looks like they have solid IP rights to their technology, and - as you'll quickly realize - the market potential is rather interesting.

Best,
Shai Dardashti
www.ShaiDardashti.com
 
Below is a list of the 63 companies I found with a P/Book of less than .30 and Debt/Equity of less than .20

Format is [Ticker] --- [Price / Book, quarterly] --- [Total Debt / Total Equity, quarterly] --- [Current Market Cap, in Millions]

BRLS Portivity, Inc. 0 0.04 0.01
BWAY Breakaway Solutions, Inc. 0 0.15 0.11
CYRS CyberSentry, Inc. 0 0.11 0.04
DBSS DBS Industries, Inc. 0 0.03 0.02
DFTT Data-Fit Inc. 0 0.02 0.04
FGCIQ Family Golf Centers, Inc. 0 0.07 0.03
FUSN Fusion Networks Holdings 0 0.16 0.03
GLBM Global Marine, Ltd. 0 0.13 0.01
MTWVQ Metawave Communications 0 0.04 0.05
NCNTQ Netcentives Inc. 0 0.12 0.04
TCGI The Classica Group, Inc. 0 0.11 0.01
XXIS XXIS Corp. 0 0.01 0.03
ISPD Interspeed, Inc. 0.01 0 0.03
LDSD LeadingSide, Inc. 0.01 0 0.02
NANA The New Anaconda Company 0.01 0.08 0.38
SAFSQ Safescript Pharmacies(TM), Inc. 0.01 0.14 0.06
SSLN Security Investments Grp. 0.01 0.1 0.18
TCPI TCPI, Inc. 0.01 0.01 0.09
THCG THCG, Inc. 0.01 0 0.01
UBDT Ubrandit.com 0.01 0.02 0.1
BUSY Busybox.com, Inc. 0.02 0 0.04
HEARZ HearMe 0.02 0.03 0.16
HPTI Hampton Industries, Inc. 0.02 0.04 0.11
XSYS Xxsys Technologies, Inc. 0.02 0.13 0.01
CUMB Cumberland Technologies, Inc. 0.03 0.16 0.17
ELSO Elsinore Corporation 0.03 0 0.25
LTWC LTWC Corporation 0.03 0.19 0.07
MXBTF Marnetics Broadband Tech. Ltd. 0.03 0.02 0.07
TNRA TENERA, Inc. 0.03 0 0.05
TNSIZ Triton Network Systems 0.03 0.02 1.02
SLTTY Silverline Technologies (ADR) 0.04 0.16 2.66
GSLM Grand Central Silver Mns. 0.05 0.04 0.31
QNTSQ Quintus Corporation 0.05 0 19.6
BTRNQ BioTransplant Inc. 0.06 0.04 0.89
EWRX EWRX Internet Systems Inc 0.06 0.02 0.05
EHPC Executive Hospitality Corp 0.07 0.03 0.39
FMNIF Forum National Investments Ltd. 0.07 0.01 0.42
REXL Rexhall Industries, Inc. 0.07 0.2 0.82
LFPI Lifepoint, Inc. 0.09 0.04 0.51
SPRS Surge Components, Inc. 0.09 0.1 0.31
GREN GreenSmart Corporation 0.1 0.08 0.53
MOOR Chadmoore Wireless Group 0.1 0.13 5.01
ADCJ American Diamond Corporation 0.11 0.1 0.12
MMRSF Madison Minerals Inc. 0.11 0 4.1
OOTFF O2 plc (ADR) 0.11 0.14 1951.81
PGLD Phoenix Gold International, Inc. 0.15 0 1.53
DISS Diversified Senior Services, Inc. 0.16 0.17 0.25
NETO NetObjects, Inc. 0.16 0 0.64
CITI Canterbury Consulting Group, Inc. 0.18 0.11 1.05
CSHEF China Enterprises Limited 0.18 0.06 9.33
ARYC Advanced Recycling Sciences 0.19 0.09 0.86
HOTK Holter Technologies Holding AG 0.19 0.02 2.86
EPRC Empiric Energy, Inc. 0.2 0.05 0.62
ICRP IMCOR Pharmaceutical Co. 0.21 0.02 1.98
FNID FNF Industries, Inc. 0.22 0 2.4
LBRT Liberate Technologies 0.23 0 37.13
CSCC CenterSpan Communications Corporation 0.25 0.02 1.06
PMOIY Premier Oil plc (ADR) 0.25 0.09 104.16
RAWA Rent-A-Wreck of America 0.25 0.14 0.75
VCNE Voicenet, Inc. 0.26 0 0.79
EILL Elegant Illusions, Inc. 0.27 0.07 1.83
CLTK Celeritek, Inc. 0.29 0.01 4.54
VTLV Vital Living, Inc. 0.29 0.15 5.58

Please email me when you get a chance.

ShaiDardashti@gmail.com
www.ShaiDardashti.com

Thanks!
 
Shai,

I've actually looked at some of those companies in the past:

I thought Busybox was the open source software people, apparently not. I think I did cover this a while back, but skipped it because the Pink Sheets people couldn't contact them. They're recent 8-K says Videostate has (had) the option to buy the assets of Busybox for $3.8 million in cash/stock, which would be something like 70 cents per share? Shares had been trading at 45 cents.

I seem to remember Cumberland Technologies.

I used to follow RAWA years ago, but I never really liked it as an investment.

Bruce
 
Great to see there's someone else out there looking at these stocks too...

Keep up the great posts!

Best,
Shai
 
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