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Why is MGTI Continuing to Climb (OTCMKTS:MGTI)

There’s been a lot of news and almost as much movement with MGT Capital Investments, Inc. (OTCMKTS:MGTI) over the past month. First off, the price has almost tripled from where it sat in May ($0.62 on May 15) to $2.35 where it closed on August 18^th. The other news is that MGTI just announced yesterday (August 17) that they have obtained and are in the process of deploying 650 state of the art Bitcoin mining rigs which will be located at a new multi-Megawatt facility in the state of Washington. They have said that the new miners will be fully operational within the next two-weeks.

Some background:

Bitcoin’s value rested at about $580 at this time last year (August 2016) just a few months after the latest Mt. Gox issues had hit the market. Anyone who follows Bitcoin knows that the cryptocurrency market is really hot and that Bitcoin currently is in the midst of a steady, high-delta year-long growth spurt which has its value near an all-time high of $4510 on Thursday, August 17 2017.

As of Friday, August 18 Bitcoin is still hovering around $4170. This is important for a few reasons: 1) Bitcoin has experienced a strong valuation increase in the past one-month period, which equals its greatest increase since its spike earlier this year between March and June. In July it dived to $1938. 2) The recent split with Bitcoin Cash (called “BCash to avoid confusion) has indirectly caused Bitcoin, with its more established trading infrastructure and global exchange network, to experience increased blockchain activity, trading and value. See, there have been several clonecoins in the past, but BCash also copied the blockchain, meaning that at the time of the fork, every person who owned a Bitcoin also owned a unit of BCash. But there are issues with BCash, not the least of which is its inherent instability and slow blockchain transaction speeds. In addition, 76% of all bitcoin cash that may ever possibly exist, is already in the hands of miners and waiting to be sold. Any time an alternative currency is released, it bolster’s Bitcoin as the de-facto standard crypto, pushing up its price accordingly.

Back to MGTI – Before even announcing their new mining rigs, they surpassed the 1,000 Bitcoins mined milestone – which they have accomplished in less than one year. So we know they’re capable players in this market.

They are also reportedly working on a new suite of cyber security technologies in collaboration with industry visionary John McAfee. They aim to develop and launch a series of protection tools for individuals (mobile) and corporations (WANs). MGTI has one such product undergoing beta testing – Sentinel, an enterprise class network intrusion detector – which they will likely release prior to the end of Q3, 2017.

Also, they have formed a JV with Nordic IT with the goal of bringing to market a new mobile phone platform with strong inherent protections for privacy and hacker-thwarting features. Various statements indicate that they intend for development and marketing for this platform to be complete by February of 2018.

The numbers: MGTI is sitting at a humble $2.35 as of close on August 18. This is down from a high of about $3.40 a year ago, but up from a long-term trough which had them languishing as low as $0.68 and volumes hovering in the low 1M range. Average volume is significantly lower at 728,062 which makes current volume of 1,831,411 all the more impressive. Market cap sits at 91.753M and both PE and EPS are negative at -2.07 and -1.14 respectively.

What does this mean? We’re not sure, but we don’t see another dropoff like last year’s. In fact it would be within reason to think that MGTI can ride the Bitcoin wave long enough to bring their other revenue generating strategies online and surpass their all-time high of $3.19 from August of last year. Definitely keep an eye on these guys – and on the Bitcoin and cryptocurrency news.

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FFHD Making Investors Happy

In recent news, FirstAtlantic Financial Holdings (OTCQX: FFHD) or First Atlantic Bank has experienced an uptick in volume. FFHD is a fully reporting holding company for FirstAtlantic Bank, a full service community bank headquartered in Jacksonville, FL. According to their reports, they have $436M in assets, and eight “financial centers” located in eastern Florida. The banking unit has a 5-Star rating from Bauer Financial, Inc. which they claim is the nation’s leading bank rating firm, and a 3-Star rating from Morningstar.

There are a few reasons for this volume increase and we’ll get into them in sufficient detail to give the casual investor a likely plan of action. First off, just a few days ago on Ausust 16, 2017 FirstAtlantic Financial Holdings (FFHD) announced a merger with the National Bank of Commerce (NBC) a Delaware corporation headquartered in Alabama. The announcement states that FFHD will continue to operate (and trade) under its own name after the merger is finalized, but the combined institution will reportedly boast approximately $3.1Bn in assets. The parent company of NBC, National Commerce Corporation (NCOM) is listed on NASDAQ.

Prior to the merger FFHD stock was trading from $10.40 to $16.85 and according to the terms of the agreement, every share of FFHD stock issued or outstanding prior to the merger will be converted into 0.44 shares of NCC common stock – or – be purchased for $17.25 in cash with a few details pertaining to NCC’s stake in the merger and the effect on outstanding purchase options left to be ironed out in the form of option cancellation and payment of an amount equal to the difference between $17.25 and the option exercise price. For those interested, NCC’s stock has traded between $35.00 and $40.45 through the past three quarters.

NCC has filed a registration statement form S-4 with the SEC to register shares of NCC common stock to be issued to shareholders of FirstAtlantic but FFHD will continue to be operated, managed and traded under its own name for the foreseeable future.

The other reasons for the recent uptick include a positive earnings report issued in August and the hire of a new Assistant Vice President.

As mentioned previously, FFHD has seen a recent spike in volume. It currently sits at about 95,700, but the 52-week average is still only 7,095. Price as of August 18, a few days after the merger announcement is at $16.76, which is a sharp spike over the previous year, with the price going from around $10 in August of 2016 up to $13.60 a week before the merger.

If you’re interested in detailed financial reports and news, these items are available at the company’s website: https://www.firstatlantic.bank/About-Us/Investor-Relations.

Based on our analysis, this one is likely to retract just a bit over the next week or so, but a continued steady growth curve topping out at up to $25 within a year or so is definitely not out of the question. Of course, anything could happen including another spike resulting from positive news or greater publicity.

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