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ChinaSecurities.com Small-Cap Company Feature: China Natural Gas

Posted by AGORACOM at 9:30 AM on Monday, May 10th, 2010

As many of you know, we are very bullish on the long-term future of Chinese small cap and mid cap companies for two reasons:

1] The obvious reason – China is the fastest growing economy on the planet and nothing is going to slow down its ascent over the next 50 years and beyond. Investing in growth companies there just makes too much sense.

2] Great Results and Valuations – Many Small Cap Chinese Companies are listing in the US (OTCBB, NYSE Alternext and NASDAQ) with great financial results. Unlike many dubious US Small Cap Companies, Chinese Companies don’t seem to believe in losing money or failing to execute in a business plan. As such, 7-digit revenues and profits are very common.

From a valuation point of view, many Chinese companies became a victim of their own success in Q4 2008 and Q1 2009. Why? When the world needed to start liquidating, one of the first places they looked were China where most investors had significant gains to sell into. This resulted in the proverbial baby being thrown out with the bathwater and some great valuations.

TODAY’S FEATURED COMPANY

China Natural Gas (Nasdaq:CHNG)

Chng

China Natural Gas transports and sells natural gas to vehicular fueling terminals, as well as commercial, industrial and residential customers through its distribution networks in China’sShaanxi and Henan Provinces.

On May 10th, 2010, the Company announced its financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2010.

Check out the full details below!

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First Quarter 2010 Results

  • Revenue in the first quarter of 2010 increased 4.5% to $19.4 million from $18.5 million in the first quarter of 2009
  • Gross profit in the first quarter of 2010 contracted 5.6% to $9.1 million, from $9.6 million in the prior year’s same period.
  • Net income in the first quarter of 2010 decreased 4.9% to $4.0 million, or $0.19 per diluted share, from $4.2 million, or $0.29 per diluted share, in the first quarter of 2009.

YOUR RESEARCH STARTING POINTS FOR CHINESE SMALL CAP AND MID CAP COMPANIES

We’ve provided investors with two great starting points to research great Chinese small cap and mid cap companies.

1. ChinaSecurities.com – ChinaSecurities.com tracks 250 of the best small cap and mid cap companies trading on North American exchanges. It provides you with the best of the best in two ways. First, the front page lists the best news of the day coming out of the space. It does so by giving you a text view of the best press releases by industry and via Chinese Stocks TV, a 5-minute broadcast every morning just after the open. Chinese Stocks TV is archived, so you can catch up on shows you missed.

Second, if you want to research each of the 250 companies to find candidates for your portfolio, it has a very intuitive directory that lets you quickly review each company on the master list, or parse it out by industry and exchange if you have a particular sector of interest. Cool stuff.

2. Right here on AGORACOM, you can refer to our China category for other featured Chinese Small-Cap Companies. As always, we will disclose any IR relationship with any public company. Given the sheer number of great Chinese Small-Cap Companies out there, you can expect us NOT to have an IR relationship with most of these companies.

Regards,
George

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Fire River Gold Announces 3.7 opt (128 g/t) Gold Over 16.7 ft (5.1 m), Nixon Fork Gold Mine, Alaska

Posted by AGORACOM at 10:38 AM on Wednesday, May 5th, 2010

Highlights

  • 3.7 opt (128 g/t) gold over 16.7 ft (5.1 m) in hole N07U048
    • including 6.7 opt (231 g/t) gold over 1.6 ft (0.5 m)
    • including 7.7 opt (264 g/t) gold over 4.9 ft (1.5 m)
  • 2.2 opt (77 g/t) gold over 4.6 ft (1.4 m) in hole N07U047
  • Results pending for 76 additional underground holes
  • Results pending for 7 additional surface holes
  • Geological re-assessment work 50% complete; resource update Fall 2010

In the years 2007 to 2008, the former operator drilled 9400 metres in 110 holes, the results of which have never been previously disclosed to the public. This release is the second reporting of relogging and sampling of drill holes completed in 2007. An additional 83 drill holes from 2007 have assays pending or are pending QAQC evaluation and will be the subject of future releases.

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5 Reasons Why You Have To Hang Up The Phone For Good and Connect With Investors Online

Posted by AGORACOM at 12:40 AM on Wednesday, May 5th, 2010

Courtesy Of Blog.USA.Gov

If you are a small-cap company and still have doubts about the power of online investor relations, then you need to know that a survey of American adults conducted in late 2009 found that 82 percent of Internet users — or 61 percent of American adults — had looked up information or completed a transaction on a government Web site over the previous year.

5 REASONS WHY YOU HAVE TO HANG UP THE PHONE FOR GOOD AND CONNECT WITH INVESTORS ONLINE

If people have become so comfortable with the web that they are overwhelmingly connecting with important government services online, you have to assume they’re ready to connect online with your small-cap company for something as important as their investment portfolio. Why? Here are some good reasons:

  1. People are too busy during business hours to call you.  Thanks to e-mail, the average worker never completes their work anymore. They have a backlog of to do items, so they don’t have time to call you.
  2. Timezones.  Most of the world lives outside of your timezone.  Some live on the other end of the planet.  They simply can’t call you unless your IR people are working at midnight.
  3. Workplace technology makes it very easy for employers to track long-distance phone calls.  If Joe’s Plumbing in California doesn’t do business in Calgary, you can bet his employees aren’t going to make 15 minute phone calls to you.
  4. Investors want to feel you out.  No group of people has experienced more spam and unwanted phone solicitations than small-cap investors.  Now, they’re on to you and have no desire to call in, display their phone number, get into a long-winded conversation and get pressured into joining an e-mail list.  If you don’t offer the ability to connect online, then you better be a damn great small-cap or investors will go to companies that do.

AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST ….

The web accounted for 78.3% of all research into new small-cap investments in 2009.

I’ve got a bunch of other reasons that I will write about in the coming days but this post should suffice to get my point across.  Get connected or you are doing your company a great disservice.  If you are looking for more reasons, have a look at my 51 Small-Cap CEO Lessons before this one.

Regards,
George

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Stock Forum Poster Tagged $425,000 For Defamation

Posted by AGORACOM at 10:51 PM on Tuesday, May 4th, 2010

Next time you want to bash a small-cap public company, make sure you stick to the facts.  As Robert Butler just discovered, the penalty for posting defamatory / libellous statements could run you as high as $425,000 and a whole pile of legal costs.

GREAT NEWS FOR SMALL-CAP STOCKS

This is great news for small-cap companies.  For too long, they have been the victim of unrelenting stock bashing via libellous statements.  Shareholders of these companies also suffer from market cap erosion brought on by such attacks over a long period of time.  I can’t tell you how many CEO’s of legitimate small-cap companies have been driven to distress over false and misleading internet board statements about themselves or their companies.

Unfortunately, most small-cap companies don’t have the financial or human resources to go after such people.  It’s a long, expensive and distracting process that doesn’t assure any satisfaction even if successful because you may win against someone with little or no means to satisfy judgement.  How many small-caps have the resources necessary to take on this kind of fight?

Hunter Dickinson does.  As you can see, Farallon is a Hunter Dickinson company – and they have all the resources necessary for just such transgressions.

WHAT THIS MEANS FOR SMALL-CAP STOCKS

The Farallon press release sums it up best:

“This is amongst the highest awards of its kind in Canada and will hopefully restrain others from issuing unfounded defamatory statements against companies that are trying to legitimately create value for shareholders, stakeholders and mining communities around the world.”

Thanks HD.  Small-cap investors and pubco’s owe you a world of thanks for injecting a big pause into unscrupulous message board posters that will think twice about attacking small-cap companies and their shareholders.

Regards,
George

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Votorantim Metals finalizes Option/Joint Venture Agreement with EL Nino

Posted by AGORACOM at 9:31 AM on Tuesday, May 4th, 2010

Votorantim Metals Canada Inc. finalizes Option/Joint Venture Agreement with El Nino Ventures and Xstrata Zinc

  • Finalized its Option / Joint Venture Agreement with ELN and Xstrata Canada Corporation – Xstrata Zinc Canada Division to earn a 50% interest in the Bathurst Mining Camp (BMC) project by incurring exploration expenditures of$10 million over a period of five years. Votorantim can increase its interest to 70% by spending another $10 million over an additional two years thereafter ELN and Xstrata Zinc Canada interests would be reduced to 15% from 25% respectively.
  • The BMC project is comprised of 1805 claims owned 50% ELN, 50% Xstrata, 2907 claims owned 100% by Xstrata Zinc, together with an Area of Interest in which ELN and Xstrata Zinc hold equal interest.
  • Earlier drilling campaigns delineated several historical deposits of lead, zinc and copper mineralization within the 1805 claims in which ELN currently holds 50% interest.

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ChinaSecurities.com Small-Cap Company Feature: Fushi Copperweld

Posted by AGORACOM at 9:30 AM on Tuesday, May 4th, 2010

As many of you know, we are very bullish on the long-term future of Chinese small cap and mid cap companies for two reasons:

1] The obvious reason – China is the fastest growing economy on the planet and nothing is going to slow down its ascent over the next 50 years and beyond. Investing in growth companies there just makes too much sense.

2] Great Results and Valuations – Many Small Cap Chinese Companies are listing in the US (OTCBB, NYSE Alternext and NASDAQ) with great financial results. Unlike many dubious US Small Cap Companies, Chinese Companies don’t seem to believe in losing money or failing to execute in a business plan. As such, 7-digit revenues and profits are very common.

From a valuation point of view, many Chinese companies became a victim of their own success in Q4 2008 and Q1 2009. Why? When the world needed to start liquidating, one of the first places they looked were China where most investors had significant gains to sell into. This resulted in the proverbial baby being thrown out with the bathwater and some great valuations.

TODAY’S FEATURED COMPANY

Fushi Copperweld (Nasdaq:FSIN)

Fsin

Fushi Copperweld, Inc. through its wholly owned subsidiaries, Fushi International (Dalian) Bimetallic Cable Co, Ltd., and Copperweld Bimetallics, LLC, is the leading manufacturer and innovator of copper-cladded bi-metallic engineered conductor products used in the electrical, telecommunications, transportation, utilities and industrial industries.

On May 4th, 2010, Fushi announced financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2010.

Check out the full details below!

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First Quarter Highlights

— GAAP net income increased 137.7% to $7.4M, or $0.21 per diluted share
— Adjusted net income increased 148.3% to $10.2M, or $0.29 per diluted share
— Metric tons shipped at Dalian location increased 13.3% compared to first quarter 2009
— Gross profit increased 99.4% to $17.8 million, or 29.9% of revenues
— Cash position at quarter end remains strong at $78.5 million

YOUR RESEARCH STARTING POINTS FOR CHINESE SMALL CAP AND MID CAP COMPANIESWe’ve provided investors with two great starting points to research great Chinese small cap and mid cap companies.

1. ChinaSecurities.com – ChinaSecurities.com tracks 250 of the best small cap and mid cap companies trading on North American exchanges. It provides you with the best of the best in two ways. First, the front page lists the best news of the day coming out of the space. It does so by giving you a text view of the best press releases by industry and via Chinese Stocks TV, a 5-minute broadcast every morning just after the open. Chinese Stocks TV is archived, so you can catch up on shows you missed.

Second, if you want to research each of the 250 companies to find candidates for your portfolio, it has a very intuitive directory that lets you quickly review each company on the master list, or parse it out by industry and exchange if you have a particular sector of interest. Cool stuff.

2. Right here on AGORACOM, you can refer to our China category for other featured Chinese Small-Cap Companies. As always, we will disclose any IR relationship with any public company. Given the sheer number of great Chinese Small-Cap Companies out there, you can expect us NOT to have an IR relationship with most of these companies.

Regards,
George

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African Gold Group, Inc., Airborne Survey of Asankrangwa Holdings-Contiguous and on Strike With Keegan’s Esaase Deposit-Has Commenced

Posted by AGORACOM at 9:33 AM on Thursday, April 29th, 2010

Agg

African Gold Group, Inc., (“AGG” or the “Company”) (TSX VENTURE:AGG) is pleased to report that an airborne magnetic and radiometric survey of AGG’s 456 sq km Asankrangwa Holdings, located on strike and contiguous with Keegan Resource’s Esaase gold deposit, has commenced.

In addition, an airborne survey of the Company’s 20 sq km Nyankumasi concession, located approximately 30 km south-southwest of Newmont Mining’s 6.3 million ounce Akyem project, will proceed immediately following the completion of the Asankrangwa airborne survey.

The two distinct projects will consist of high resolution helicopter borne magnetic and radiometric surveys.

To view the Historical work pre-dating African Gold’s ownership, and the full press release, please click here.

Now, as a client of AGORACOM, assume I am horribly conflicted about the prospects for African Gold Group and do your own due diligence.

Link to Hub / Link to Profile / Link to Forum

Regards,
George

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ChinaSecurities.com Small-Cap Company Feature: China Armco Metals

Posted by AGORACOM at 9:30 AM on Wednesday, April 28th, 2010

As many of you know, we are very bullish on the long-term future of Chinese small cap and mid cap companies for two reasons:

1] The obvious reason – China is the fastest growing economy on the planet and nothing is going to slow down its ascent over the next 50 years and beyond. Investing in growth companies there just makes too much sense.

2] Great Results and Valuations – Many Small Cap Chinese Companies are listing in the US (OTCBB, NYSE Alternext and NASDAQ) with great financial results. Unlike many dubious US Small Cap Companies, Chinese Companies don’t seem to believe in losing money or failing to execute in a business plan. As such, 7-digit revenues and profits are very common.

From a valuation point of view, many Chinese companies became a victim of their own success in Q4 2008 and Q1 2009. Why? When the world needed to start liquidating, one of the first places they looked were China where most investors had significant gains to sell into. This resulted in the proverbial baby being thrown out with the bathwater and some great valuations.

TODAY’S FEATURED COMPANY

China Armco Metals (NYSEAmex:CNAM)

Cnam

China Armco Metals, Inc. is engaged in the sale and distribution of metal ore and non-ferrous metals throughout the PRC and has entered the recycling business with the recent launch of operations of a 1-million ton per year shredder and recycler of metals located on 32 acres of land acquired by China Armco. China Armco maintains customers throughout China which includes the fastest growing steel producing mills and foundries in the PRC.

On April 27th 2010 the Company announced that Armet Renewable Resourced Co., Ltd. the Company’s wholly owned subsidiary, has entered into contracts with several domestic suppliers to secure an ongoing supply of scrap metal of up to 37,000 tons per month for the remainder of 2010.

Check out the full details below!

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HIGHLIGHTS

– Ongoing supply of scrap metal of up to 37,000 tons per month for the remainder of 2010.

YOUR RESEARCH STARTING POINTS FOR CHINESE SMALL CAP AND MID CAP COMPANIES

We’ve provided investors with two great starting points to research great Chinese small cap and mid cap companies.

1. ChinaSecurities.com – ChinaSecurities.com tracks 250 of the best small cap and mid cap companies trading on North American exchanges. It provides you with the best of the best in two ways. First, the front page lists the best news of the day coming out of the space. It does so by giving you a text view of the best press releases by industry and via Chinese Stocks TV, a 5-minute broadcast every morning just after the open. Chinese Stocks TV is archived, so you can catch up on shows you missed.

Second, if you want to research each of the 250 companies to find candidates for your portfolio, it has a very intuitive directory that lets you quickly review each company on the master list, or parse it out by industry and exchange if you have a particular sector of interest. Cool stuff.

2. Right here on AGORACOM, you can refer to our China category for other featured Chinese Small-Cap Companies. As always, we will disclose any IR relationship with any public company. Given the sheer number of great Chinese Small-Cap Companies out there, you can expect us NOT to have an IR relationship with most of these companies.

Regards,
George

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Chinese Small-Cap Company Feature: China BAK Battery

Posted by AGORACOM at 9:30 AM on Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

As many of you know, we are very bullish on the long-term future of Chinese small cap and mid cap companies for two reasons:

1] The obvious reason – China is the fastest growing economy on the planet and nothing is going to slow down its ascent over the next 50 years and beyond. Investing in growth companies there just makes too much sense.

2] Great Results and Valuations – Many Small Cap Chinese Companies are listing in the US (OTCBB, NYSE Alternext and NASDAQ) with great financial results. Unlike many dubious US Small Cap Companies, Chinese Companies don’t seem to believe in losing money or failing to execute in a business plan. As such, 7-digit revenues and profits are very common.

From a valuation point of view, many Chinese companies became a victim of their own success in Q4 2008 and Q1 2009. Why? When the world needed to start liquidating, one of the first places they looked were China where most investors had significant gains to sell into. This resulted in the proverbial baby being thrown out with the bathwater and some great valuations.

TODAY’S FEATURED COMPANY

China BAK Battery (Nasdaq:CBAK)

Cbak

China BAK Battery, Inc. is one of the world’s largest manufacturers of lithium-based battery cells as measured by production output. The Company produces battery cells that are the principal component of rechargeable batteries commonly used in cellular phones, notebook computers and portable consumer electronics such as digital media devices, portable media players, portable audio players, portable gaming devices, and PDAs. China BAK Battery, Inc.’s production facilities, located in Shenzhen and Tianjin, PRC.

On April 26th, the Company announced its financial results for the second quarter of fiscal year 2010 (“Q2 2010”).

Check out the full details below:

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Highlights:

— Revenues in Q2 2010 increased 23.5% year-over-year and 0.4% sequentially;

— Revenues from cylindrical cells used in notebook computers surged 65.0% to $13.4 million sequentially and were up 45.1% from same quarter of last year. China BAK now supplies three out of the six largest notebook OEM makers in the world;

— Revenues from high power batteries doubled in Q2 2010, due to increasing market demand for Electric Bicycles and Electric Vehicles;

— EBITDA increased 318.9% year over year to $6.2 million; Achieved $0.9 million in operating income;

YOUR RESEARCH STARTING POINTS FOR CHINESE SMALL CAP AND MID CAP COMPANIES

We’ve provided investors with two great starting points to research great Chinese small cap and mid cap companies.

1. ChinaSecurities.com – ChinaSecurities.com tracks 250 of the best small cap and mid cap companies trading on North American exchanges. It provides you with the best of the best in two ways. First, the front page lists the best news of the day coming out of the space. It does so by giving you a text view of the best press releases by industry and via Chinese Stocks TV, a 5-minute broadcast every morning just after the open. Chinese Stocks TV is archived, so you can catch up on shows you missed.

Second, if you want to research each of the 250 companies to find candidates for your portfolio, it has a very intuitive directory that lets you quickly review each company on the master list, or parse it out by industry and exchange if you have a particular sector of interest. Cool stuff.

2. Right here on AGORACOM, you can refer to our China category for other featured Chinese Small-Cap Companies. As always, we will disclose any IR relationship with any public company. Given the sheer number of great Chinese Small-Cap Companies out there, you can expect us NOT to have an IR relationship with most of these companies.

Regards,
George


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Fire River Gold Announces 2.28 opt (78.03 g/t) Gold Over 15.8 ft (4.8 m)

Posted by AGORACOM at 9:34 AM on Monday, April 26th, 2010

Fire River Gold Announces 2.28 opt (78.03 g/t) Gold Over 15.8 ft (4.8 m), Nixon Fork Gold Mine, Alaska

--  2.28 opt (78.03 g/t) Gold over 15.8 ft (4.8 m) in hole N07U050

    --  including 4.66 opt (159.71 g/t) over 5.9 ft (1.8 m) 

--  1.47 opt (50.28 g/t) Gold over 16.5 ft (4.0 m) in hole N07U052 

--  Results pending for 80 additional underground holes 

--  Results pending for 7 additional surface holes 

--  Geological re-assessment work 55% complete; resource update Fall 2010

Now, as a client of AGORACOM, assume I am horribly conflicted about the prospects for Fire River Gold and do your own due diligence.

IR Hub / Company Profile / Discussion Forum

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