SPAC: Special Acquisition to "IPO private companies"Dipping your toes into the wild "reverse IPO" SPACs....
A SPAC, Special Purpose Acquisition Company, is a company that uses its funds to transform existing private companies to list them on the Stock Market. Read up on the SEC.GOV on these "special" financial instruments from Wall Street and friends before risking a penny on these things.
We'll use a special SPAC acquiring a company very close to home: D-Wave Systems of Vancouver (Burnaby), Canada regulated under Canadian and BC Laws.
For D-Wave's IPO via XPOA (the SPAC) to QBTS ("quantum bits") this will be done on the NYSE listed. D-Wave Systems is currently private and a leader in Quantum Computing with North American headquarters and control. A former Canadian star is graduating to the US. See the company web site for details www.dwavesys.com
AI (Artificial Intelligence) is the future and "Quantum Bits" D-Wave QBTS might do very well as it becomes fully vetted in the USA via it's "big board", the NYSE (New York Stock Exchange). Everything needs "servers" and quantum computers are the big players in serving processing speeds. Check the past and recent clients for D-Wave Systems.
In this Tutorial, we'll use TradingView Charts to explaining the possible price action on this chart based on the public information available both in the US (new D-Wave Regulatory home) and Canada (existing D-Wave Regulatory home).
As a way of a background: D-Wave a leading Canadian Quantum SuperComputing is on its way to "move" from being privately held in Vancouver, Canada to being American sharesholder owned via NYSE under the expected symbol QBTS..SPACs are one way to play the IPO but it's all speculative. These are listed as
The very interesting thing with the Markets is Canada operates under its own rules and Laws. So something that might be approved in Court last week for example, is "public" in Canada but may not be advertised in the US until regulatory requirements are met in both Canada and the US. The Charts on XPOA (DCPM Capital), shows the spike in February 2022 when the acquisition was announced.
"Update: D-Wave to Go Public via Merger with SPAC DPCM Capital; DPCM Shares Rise
Feb 8, 202208:47 Reuters
D-Wave Systems, a provider of quantum computing systems, software, and services, said Tuesday that it has agreed to merge with special purpose acquisition company DPCM Capital (XPOA) to become a publicly-traded entity."
In July, the charts shows the XPOA (and associated XPOA.U and XPOA.W) was repriced and the market respected sending the SPAC from the $10s to the $7s
This is a SPAC to watch since D-Wave Systems is a large company located in Greater Vancouver, Canada. It was a Canadian technology company and will become one of the few (or only?) pure play US company in the Quantum Computing space.
There is a customary US publication ban until proper regulatory approval is received. The "may not be distributed in the United States" allows the company to get past stockholders to understand the restructuring. Track the official Public filings available from the SEC in the US. The SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) being the regular lists any public information as filed by the company at: www.sec.gov
The Latest public news is www.sec.gov
A Shareholder vote to be voted on TOMORROW August 2nd 2022 Price action shows it has very good changes of being approved especially given the Provincial/State Canadian BC Court Approval last week which was public with restrictions on the company relating to publication in the US prior to Shareholder approval.
Interesting times...
DISCLOSURE & Liability Waiver: The above could be all wrong. FACT CHECK everything anonymous posts! BR is part of a group of Researchers of the Markets and regulatory protocols. SPACs are truly "special" (read up at SEC.GOV) and not for the novice investors. These "high growth speculative plays" need to be viewed with either deep fundamental analysis. HTA (Hybrid Technical Analysts) using certain "conditions" to determine when to jump on and off. Volume and changes in volume is one of the key indicators and mapping these to Regulatory Disclosures is interesting. For "XPOA SPAC to QBTS IPO", since this is the Study at this point given the Events, we expect Bullish volume to possibly resume here with a massive short squeeze as the dark uncertainties get cleared up tomorrow DPCM Capital/D-Wave Systems Special Shareholder Vote August 2nd 2022. Only shareholders as of June 2022 get to participate and vote at the Shareholder Meeting. Contact the company or Regulators for more information or post as a Comment if you know something public that isn't widely known. Just think I'm just an "Elf on summer break", I have no freaking idea where that Rudolf is! That "red nose" is a concern for some but it's NOT because the poor is a drunk. That's vicious rumours by bad actors! He was just born that way! Seriously, this is just an early "heads up" from "Up North", friendly neighbours. Hey!
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Quantumcomputing
Special to Quantum ComputingIt's often said the people who made money during the Gold Rush were pick makers and Lewis Jeans Co. In the digital world, leaders in computing power are at the forefront of the biotech, robotics and AI revolution that we have embarked on. Grab your seat... "mutability" is a powerful skill to have. Understanding the environment and adapting to the ever changing landscape has never been more important. Let's talk about those SPACs Never been a fan until just last week more as a co-research project I'm working on for security.
Let's focus on one that was announced last Feb 2022 and is heading to a Special Shareholder Vote tomorrow. "D-Wave Systems, a provider of quantum computing systems, software, and services, said Tuesday that it has agreed to merge with special purpose acquisition company DPCM Capital (XPOA) to become a publicly-traded entity."
There is a special shareholder meeting for holders of this SPAC to readjust to the changing times. That event will happen tomorrow August 2nd 2022. If you missed it, check with IR and SEC public filings at edgar.sec.gov As a US regulated company, it should all be there. D-Wave in Canada is currently private and apparently firing on all cylinders from informal observations.
Canada filings would be done within the appropriate Authority & Regulator for that Jurisdiction. Check with a financial advisor. I'm just an observer on a keyboard that likes to look at charts, keep my nose clean and study the markets to find possible gems in the muck of "stuff".
D-Wave Systems is a great candidate for a SPAC reverse-IPO thing. Let's hope the Regulators on both sides of the border work together to make sure all eyes are on this one.
Note: This was the last update with summary from Feb 2022:
Update: D-Wave to Go Public via Merger with SPAC DPCM Capital; DPCM Shares Rise
Feb 8, 202208:47
(Updates with stock move in the headline and last paragraph.)
D-Wave Systems, a provider of quantum computing systems, software, and services, said Tuesday that it has agreed to merge with special purpose acquisition company DPCM Capital (XPOA) to become a publicly-traded entity.
Upon closing of the deal, shares of D-Wave Quantum Inc., a newly formed parent company of D-Wave and DPCM Capital, will start trading on the NYSE under the symbol QBTS.
The transaction values D-Wave at an equity value of roughly $1.2 billion. D-Wave plans to use proceeds of $340 million to further accelerate its delivery of in-production quantum applications for blue-chip customers and to build on over 200 US patents that it has been granted.
After the closing of the deal, the combined entity will continue to operate from D-Wave's R&D and head office location in British Columbia, Canada.
The Analysis:
TA As of August 1st 2022. Tradingview TA www.tradingview.com (note: XPOA symbol to change to QBTS apparently?)
Summary: SELL 14,7,5 (watch last number increase as Yes vote gets confirmed, the current hypothesis)
Oscillators BUY 1,6,4 (mostly neutral at 6 but 4 should be increasing)
Moving Averages STRONG SELL 13,1,1 (MA-only based short sellers/algos/traders want to sell. This could be a formidable short squeeze potential in vote is large, or shorts could be predicting this is garbage).
Fundamentals
Everything depends on the vote tomorrow. Based on all information findable in Public (via SEC Edgars and other official sources). This is a Watch or Casino Bet pending vote. Tomorrow will confirm a Bullish Run or an abysmal US SPAC failure. Dog Food Fund Candidate "pre-IPO" "smelly SPAC" XPOA -> NYSE QBTS Quantum Computing "junior" that is a leader in its North American space. Place your bet, trade or investment .
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I think you buy IBM and hold it for a decadeIBM dipped after its earnings report Friday and now sits at an important support level. While I'd love for it to dip to $110 or even $100 so I could place a larger buy order there, I have my doubts that it will dip that far. Dips have been hard to come by in this bull market. And while IBM had a disappointing quarter, executives forecasted that it will be back on track to sustainable revenue growth by the end of the year.
For a technology stock, IBM is surprisingly inexpensive. I've currently got the stock's forward P/E at about 10.5, and forward P/S at about 1.4. Compare that to, say, Microsoft with a forward P/E over 30 and a forward P/S over 10. In addition to providing a good earnings yield, I forecast that IBM will yield 5.8% in dividends over the next year. Overall, I estimate that IBM has over 17% upside to its median price-to-value ratio of the last four years.
The reason IBM is so cheap is that its EBITDA per share has been in a long, slow slide for the last ten years. For the last four years, EBITDA has shrunk over 1% per year. Sales growth over the last four years was barely positive, with a growth rate of 0.01%. However, I'm not convinced that these are the most relevant numbers. EBITDA is not a very good measure of profitability, and in fact its current popularity in the investment world is a bit worrisome. A better metric is IBM's free cash flow, which has grown about 0.5% per year over the last four years. And its dividend has grown about 1% per year. So personally I think the company has already turned a corner to the upside in terms of profitability. Plus, IBM has unusually good ESG ratings and generally positive market sentiment, with put/call ratios looking quite bullish and average analyst price target 15% above the current price.
Most importantly, I think IBM has incredible potential as a technology leader. They've had more patents than any other company, by a wide margin, for 27 years running. They're averaging 82 patents per year per billion dollars of market cap, which means you're buying an incredible amount of cutting-edge technology for the price you pay. Of the companies I follow, the next best value in terms of patents-to-market-cap is HPE, with just 26 patents-per-year-per-billion. And IBM's patents are in potentially world-changing fields, like AI and quantum computing. This is by far the best value in the market for a Singularity technology play. And that, more than anything else, is why I think you buy IBM here and hold it for a decade.
IBM has crossed into the lower half of its ten-year triangle and has fairly good risk-reward within the triangle from here. Assuming it eventually breaks out of the triangle to the upside, I'd expect it to eventually recapture its 2012 highs over $200 per share.
