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VOLUME
03: ISSUE 69
Trading
Alert: C-CHIP Technologies. Lojack with Attitude.
We
strongly believe that C-CHIP?'s (OTCBB:
CCHI) prospects in particular, and those of the telematics sector
in general, offer superior potential for both short- and long-term gains.
C-CHIP?
produces a cutting edge wireless, web-based set of communication tools
that offers business users remote access, control, and monitoring of a
wide range of assets, including vehicles, office equipment and industrial
machinery. It allows selective enabling, disabling and many other features,
from anywhere to practically anywhere in North America using the Internet.
Applications for the C-CHIP? technology offers significant opportunities
within the markets for credit, security and asset management solutions.
For background on the telematics
sector --also known as sensor technology or M2M (machine to machine)--
see Tuesday's backgrounder article. An excerpt from that piece:
A symbiosis of telecommunications
and informatics, telematics involves the integration of Global Positioning
System ("GPS") satellite technology and wireless communications technology...
The entire telematics market, according to industry analysts Gartner Group,
is expected to top $27 billion by 2005 and $100 billion by 2010. And where,
other than autos, will one find these chips in the future? Just about everywhere.
Risk-oriented
investors should seriously consider accumulating the shares of telematics
firm C-CHIP Technologies at these levels. As the volume has already topped
2 million this week, a significant number of investors are already in the
process of establishing positions.
C-CHIP? went public in January 2003.
The stock is presently trading between 80-90 cents and appears to have
broken out into a new up-trend. There are approximately 37 million shares
outstanding. It is for all the following reasons that we feel a position
in C-CHIP? makes sense for those investors interested in cutting edge,
highly competitive products currently being released into a huge and growing
market.
Salient points about C-CHIP? for
investors' consideration:
C-CHIP? has initially targeted its state
of the art products to the massive yet under-served automotive telematics
sector, which has demonstrated a need for more robust and lower cost theft
protection (average US auto losses of $8.2 billion per year and growing)
and asset monitoring systems.
US fleet automobile telematics penetration
is currently less than 5%.
Globally, insurance companies are increasing
their demands for on-board vehicle location devices.
C-CHIP?'s 'stripped down' technology
allows significantly lower price points than competitors--its wireless units
combine high functionality with small size.
Unique asset deactivation functionality--where
applicable-- is web-based, not network-based.
C-CHIP's corporate focus on gaining
significant and diversified market share in the office equipment and industrial
machinery sectors as well as the auto sector.
Consumer credit quality is deteriorating,
evidencing the growing need for solutions to lower delinquencies. C-CHIP?'s
products are applicable to virtually any financed asset, be it a Porsche
or a cell-phone.
Business
is
assets. The protection and monitoring of those assets will grow exponentially
as the telematics sector grows to a size in excess of $100 billion dollars
by 2010 -- according to industry analyst McKinsey. Those are Billions.
With a 'B'.
Currently,
competitive telematics products offered tend to be high cost and come with
ongoing fees attached. C-CHIP? has developed a suite of 'stripped down'
products that are low cost, small in size and, except in the case of its
Tracking Manager product which has a pay per use feature, have nothing
approaching its competitors' ongoing fees.
C-CHIP? intends to follow a multi-year
business plan that will eventually see it develop a diversified mix of
products split equally into three sectors: autos, office equipment and
industrial equipment. Products have also been developed for Asian and European
markets. Think Global....
Existing systems, such as LOJACK?
(NASDAQ:
LOJN) are US vehicle location systems that tell police or an insurance
company where a stolen vehicle is located. To work effectively, everyone
needs to be on the Lojack system.
C-CHIP? is significantly more robust
and is, as well, web-based. There is no need for a specialized network
system: the appropriate authority can locate and disable a C-CHIP? enabled
vehicle--or other asset --by way of the Internet. Other competitive location
systems--such as LOJACK-- aren't much good should the vehicle or other asset,
once located, have the ability to stay 'on the move'.
Currently, C-CHIP? has three products
ready for market. Substantive discussions going on with large potential
users, both within the automotive sector and with office supply companies,
industrial machinery producers and credit facilitators.
A deal was announced in April 2003
for an initial shipment to Pay Technologies LLC of 10,000 units over 12
months of C-CHIP's Credit Manager product.
Credit Manager: a one way communications
tool that allows users to activate or deactivate an asset from practically
anywhere in North America. This virtually ensures timely payment of finance
and lease charges under fear of deactivation. Reports project this type
of technology could reduce delinquency by 90 percent. Credit Manager can
also be embedded in anything financed, from a Porsche, to a laptop, to
a wide screen TV. Unit cost is $175-$185, slightly below competitors' prices.
Expect the price to go lower as distribution rises.
Tracking Manager: same functionality
of Credit Manager, but can be configured with two-way communication, GPS
locator and monitoring. Wide application for fleet and insurance companies
because the device offers deactivation ability, location and abuse monitoring--excessive
speed, for example. Unit cost is $299, priced roughly 25 percent below
competitive products.
Access Manager: A simple RFID
(Radio Frequency ID) product that utilizes a key chain transponder that
must communicate with a vehicle's numerous kill switches. Therefore, if
anyone other than the authorized user attempts to compromise the asset,
the car won't start. This product has potential application to the entire
automotive and industrial vehicle market as a low cost, simple theft deterrent.
Unit cost is $200. The only comparable is a wired product at $350
per unit. The C-CHIP? Access Manager is wireless and therefore more useful
as a theft deterrent: there are no wires to follow allowing thieves to
disable the unit.
C-CHIP? is not simply a three trick
pony. The company continues R&D development but has now moved into
the sales and distribution phase to capitalize on its cutting edge technology
for itself and its shareholders.
The company is engaged in developing
and refining its technology to produce products for niche markets, which,
in their totality, are huge. Discussions are ongoing with customers and
distributors; substantive deal announcements are anticipated.
The company announced on Monday that
it had secured a $1.4 million financing --the proceeds of which should
see the company through to significant revenue generation. The equity financing
also included a two year, $1 per share warrant that, if exercised, would
yield a further $2.52 million in financing.
The
potential for C-CHIP?'s applications within an enormous--and growing--telematics
market is significant. An initial purchase based on the company's prospects
prior to more deal and revenue announcements could yield risk-oriented
investors the best returns.
Think Lojack?. Then realize that
C-CHIP? is better and has way more telematic applications than just vehicle
tracking. Besides, Lojack is trading at $7--the same price it was 10 years
ago. C-CHIP? trades at 90 cents and is on the threshold of significant
market penetration. Which has more potential? You get one guess.
We will be following this innovative
technology company's progress and will report news and milestones met as
C-CHIP? executes its business plan.
MARKET
NOTE
Kudos
to those readers who acted quickly on our recent BioCurex (OTCBB:
BOCX) Trading Alert.
Significant volume ensued and early
purchasers saw shares purchased in the low 20 cent range move up to a high
of 42 cents a few days later--more than 100 percent return in a week.
The shares have settled back to the 30-cent range with significant daily
volumes evidencing that the company is continuing to garner significant
interest. The shares have demonstrated outstanding two-way trade. We have
great confidence in this one as we get closer to licensing agreements and
new patents announcements to augment those already secured in the US.
We continue to suggest accumulation
of the shares in the 25 to 35 cent level.
Excerpt from our Biocurex Trading
Alert: Here's the second potential bolt of lightning: a purchase
of the shares of cancer detection concern BioCurex (OTCBB: BOCX), currently
trading at 16-17 cents, has, we strongly believe, the potential to return
handsomely over the next 12 months. Our buy range would ideally be below
20 cents, but should the shares move into the low 20-cent range, purchases
should still be made, given, as you will see, the potential of the company
and its technologies.
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