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Last night I alerted you about PEIX. I told you that I believe it is the most overvalued stock in the world and a huge sell-off is coming.
The sell-off started today.
PEIX finished today down $4.12 to $37.88 on huge volume of almost 7 million.
My put options that I started buying last week at $1.20 hit a high today of $4.
This morning a guest on CNBC said that PEIX has not yet produced one drop of ethanol and the stock has gotten way ahead of itself.
A very negative article is about to come out about ethanol in Newsweek.
http://yahoo.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_21/b3985084.htm
The article says, "Fuel made from 85% ethanol and 15% gas, or E85, now costs more than gasoline in many markets. Throw in the fact that it is 25% less efficient than gasoline, and the consumer's bill at the pump is much more. A Chevrolet Tahoe SUV running on E85 costs about $3,500 a year to fuel at $3 a gallon, an $800 premium over the cost to run an all-gas model."
PEIX announced their first quarter results after the close.
Their Madera plant that is being built was given a $30.7 million valuation on the balance sheet. The market cap of PEIX stock right now is $1.6 billion. Hmm, it is not like PEIX has any kind of special technology that nobody else has. Anybody can build an ethanol plant like PEIX is building for $50 million.
PEIX's ethanol reselling business had revenues of $38.2 million. Their gross margins were 6% up from average historical gross margins of 2% to 4.4%. However, PEIX said that their "future gross profit margins may be lower than average historical levels".
Very interesting from the report is that prior to doing the reverse merger, PEIX sold 7 million shares of stock to 63 accredited investors for $3 per share. The investors also got 1.4 million warrants to purchase shares at $3.
The deal PEIX did with Bill Gate's hedge fund was for 5.25 million preferred shares priced at $16 per share. Each preferred share can be converted to 2 common shares which means in reality the money was raised at $8 per share.
Obviously PEIX management believes the stock should be valued between $3 and $8 per share. This explains why they have been dumping hundreds of millions of dollars worth of stock during the recent months.
This sell-off is going to continue. The chart looks extremely bearish. The people that bought at $44 are about to start receiving margin calls and will be forced to sell.