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MustGrow Biologics Corp. (MGROF) – Releases Fiscal Year 2023 Results

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Thursday, April 25, 2024

Joe Gomes, Managing Director, Equity Research Analyst, Generalist , Noble Capital Markets, Inc.

Joshua Zoepfel, Research Associate, Noble Capital Markets, Inc.

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Fiscal Year Results. Management reported revenue of CAD$4.7 million for the year from CAD$6,479 last year. This is due to fees earned from technology license, evaluation, and collaboration agreements. The Company had a net loss of CAD$676,940, or a loss of $0.01 per share, from a loss of CAD$5.6 million or $0.11 last year, with the improvement from the increased revenue.

Balance Sheet and Cash Flow. MustGrow ended the year with CAD$6.8 million in cash, slightly down from CAD$7.0 million last year. The Company used CAD$294,764 in CFFO, an improvement from a use of CAD$3.3 million last year. The improvement was due to the revenue from fees earned. Barring any additional revenue, we estimate that the Company currently has an approximate 15-month runaway before needing new capital.


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Comstock Inc. (LODE) – Comstock Fuels Gains Commercial Momentum

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Thursday, April 25, 2024

Comstock (NYSE: LODE) innovates technologies that contribute to global decarbonization and circularity by efficiently converting under-utilized natural resources into renewable fuels and electrification products that contribute to balancing global uses and emissions of carbon. The Company intends to achieve exponential growth and extraordinary financial, natural, and social gains by building, owning, and operating a fleet of advanced carbon neutral extraction and refining facilities, by selling an array of complimentary process solutions and related services, and by licensing selected technologies to qualified strategic partners. To learn more, please visit www.comstock.inc.

Mark Reichman, Managing Director, Equity Research Analyst, Natural Resources, Noble Capital Markets, Inc.

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Agreement executed with RenFuel K2B AB. Comstock completed agreements to invest up to $3 million in RenFuel K2B AB over a three-year period. The investment will support commercialization of joint development applications and renewable fuel technologies, along with the development of a 100 thousand tonnes per year (TPY) biorefinery joint venture project in Sweden. The agreements call for the purchase of up to $3 million in 7% senior secured convertible notes funded in quarterly installments of $250 thousand for three years.

The power of partnership. Comstock’s partnership with RenFuel has accelerated the commercialization of its technologies. The companies’ joint venture project is strategic to Comstock’s plan to commercialize its proprietary Bioleum product. Comstock uses RenFuel’s patented catalytic esterification technology to refine Bioleum derivatives into Hydro-deoxygenated Bioleum Oil (HBO) for use by advanced biofuel refineries to produce sustainable aviation and renewable diesel fuel.


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Direct Digital Holdings (DRCT) – Marcum Gives A Bad Impression

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Wednesday, April 24, 2024

Michael Kupinski, Director of Research, Equity Research Analyst, Digital, Media & Technology , Noble Capital Markets, Inc.

Patrick McCann, CFA, Research Analyst, Noble Capital Markets, Inc.

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Non-compliance notice. On April 17 the company was not able to file its 10-K on time, and, subsequently, received a notification of non-compliance from NASDAQ. Notably, the company has 30 days to submit an actionable plan to regain compliance. Importantly, the failure to file its 10-K on time was attributed to the inability of  its auditor, Marcum, to verify impressions data. 

New auditor expected soon. Marcum is terminating its relationship with the company, citing its inability to verify the company’s impressions data. Importantly, we expect the company to sign a top 10 US accounting firm within the 30-day window. The audit should be able to ramp quickly, given that the company will be able to provide timely access to all the data the was requested by the previous auditor. Additionally, we expect Nasdaq will accept its plan and grant the company up to 6 months to complete the10-K filing, as well as its first quarter 10-Q filing. 


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E.W. Scripps (SSP) – Hoping To Get A Nice Bounce

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Wednesday, April 24, 2024

The E.W. Scripps Company (NASDAQ: SSP) is a diversified media company focused on creating a better-informed world. As one of the nation’s largest local TV broadcasters, Scripps serves communities with quality, objective local journalism and operates a portfolio of 61 stations in 41 markets. The Scripps Networks reach nearly every American through the national news outlets Court TV and Newsy and popular entertainment brands ION, Bounce, Defy TV, Grit, ION Mystery, Laff and TrueReal. Scripps is the nation’s largest holder of broadcast spectrum. Scripps runs an award-winning investigative reporting newsroom in Washington, D.C., and is the longtime steward of the Scripps National Spelling Bee. Founded in 1878, Scripps has held for decades to the motto, “Give light and the people will find their own way.”

Michael Kupinski, Director of Research, Equity Research Analyst, Digital, Media & Technology , Noble Capital Markets, Inc.

Jacob Mutchler, Research Associate, Noble Capital Markets, Inc.

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Potential Bounce TV sale. The company appears to be currently shopping its Over The Air (OTA) network Bounce TV, a network geared towards African American audiences. The sale of the Network, which would be viewed favorably, could take some of the pressure off of the company’s high debt leverage. Notably, CEO Adam Symson indicated that a deal could take place in the second or third quarter of this year. 

Strategic interest? There are a number of networks and programming companies that are focused on the attractive African American audience and could be strategic buyers for Bounce. We estimate that Bounce has shown attractive growth over the past several years, doubling in revenue since it purchased the network in 2017 to over $150 million in revenue in 2023. We estimate a potential selling price could be between $165 million to $225 million, or 1.1 to 1.5 times revenues.


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Labrador Gold Corp. (NKOSF) – Labrador Gold Agrees to Sell its Flagship Project; Rating Lowered to Market Perform

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Tuesday, April 23, 2024

Mark Reichman, Managing Director, Equity Research Analyst, Natural Resources, Noble Capital Markets, Inc.

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Agreement to sell the flagship Kingsway project. Labrador Gold agreed to sell its 100% interest in the Kingsway project to New Found Gold Corp. (TSXV: NFG) for C$20 million in NFG shares, including all property and mining rights. The number of shares received will be determined by dividing the purchase price by the closing price of NFG shares on the last trading day prior to the closing of the transaction.

Closing expected in the third quarter of 2024. The transaction is expected to close in the third quarter of 2024 and is subject to certain conditions, including receipt of regulatory and stock exchange approvals and approval from a 66 2/3% majority of the votes cast by Labrador Gold shareholders at a special meeting to be scheduled in early July 2024. Directors, officers, and certain shareholders of Labrador Gold have entered into voting support agreements with NFG and have agreed to vote their shares in favor of the transaction. According to the company’s corporate presentation, insiders own approximately 13.2% of Labrador’s outstanding shares and institutional investors own 23.0%.  


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Energy Fuels (UUUU) – Energy Fuels to acquire Base Resources and shore up Rare Earth Element supply

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Tuesday, April 23, 2024

Energy Fuels is a leading U.S.-based uranium mining company, supplying U3O8 to major nuclear utilities. Energy Fuels also produces vanadium from certain of its projects, as market conditions warrant, and is ramping up commercial-scale production of REE carbonate. Its corporate offices are in Lakewood, Colorado, near Denver, and all its assets and employees are in the United States. Energy Fuels holds three of America’s key uranium production centers: the White Mesa Mill in Utah, the Nichols Ranch in-situ recovery (“ISR”) Project in Wyoming, and the Alta Mesa ISR Project in Texas. The White Mesa Mill is the only conventional uranium mill operating in the U.S. today, has a licensed capacity of over 8 million pounds of U3O8 per year, has the ability to produce vanadium when market conditions warrant, as well as REE carbonate from various uranium-bearing ores. The Nichols Ranch ISR Project is on standby and has a licensed capacity of 2 million pounds of U3O8 per year. The Alta Mesa ISR Project is also on standby and has a licensed capacity of 1.5 million pounds of U3O8 per year. In addition to the above production facilities, Energy Fuels also has one of the largest NI 43-101 compliant uranium resource portfolios in the U.S. and several uranium and uranium/vanadium mining projects on standby and in various stages of permitting and development. The primary trading market for Energy Fuels’ common shares is the NYSE American under the trading symbol “UUUU,” and the Company’s common shares are also listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the trading symbol “EFR.” Energy Fuels’ website is www.energyfuels.com.

Michael Heim, Senior Vice President, Equity Research Analyst, Energy & Transportation, Noble Capital Markets, Inc.

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Energy Fuels agreed to acquire Base Resources (ASX: BSE) for $242 million. Payment would consist of 0.0260 shares of UUUU stock and $0.042 in cash for each BSE share. UUUU management believes the acquisition will be immediately accretive and significantly add to Energy Fuel’s value given BSE assets with a PV10 estimated value close to $2 billion.

BSE’s Toliara project in Madagascar is the key to the purchase. Toliara is a world-class, advanced-stage, low-cost, and large-scale heavy sands project with large quantities of Monazite sand. The monazite will be shipped to UUUU’s White Mesa Mill for processing. Along with other monazite projects (Chemours, Donald, Bahia) Energy Fuels will now have enough monazite to proceed with the mill’s phase II expansion, which will increase capacity 5-6 times and begin separating heavy REEs. 


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AZZ Inc. (AZZ) – Fiscal 2024 4Q and year results meet expectations

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Tuesday, April 23, 2024

Michael Heim, Senior Vice President, Equity Research Analyst, Energy & Transportation, Noble Capital Markets, Inc.

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Seasonal decline was less due to warm weather. Precoat Metals reported strong results as construction sale benefitted from warm weather. Appliance sales were also strong.

Margins continue to improve steadily as increased sales are spread over fixed costs. Consolidated margins dipped slightly with the shift towards lower-margin Precoat Metal sales, but the overall trend continues to rise.


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Kratos Defense & Security (KTOS) – New Business and Significant Demonstrations

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Monday, April 22, 2024

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ:KTOS) develops and fields transformative, affordable technology, platforms, and systems for United States National Security related customers, allies, and commercial enterprises. Kratos is changing the way breakthrough technologies for these industries are rapidly brought to market through proven commercial and venture capital backed approaches, including proactive research, and streamlined development processes. At Kratos, affordability is a technology, and we specialize in unmanned systems, satellite communications, cyber security/warfare, microwave electronics, missile defense, hypersonic systems, training and combat systems and next generation turbo jet and turbo fan engine development. For more information go to www.kratosdefense.com.

Joe Gomes, Managing Director, Equity Research Analyst, Generalist , Noble Capital Markets, Inc.

Joshua Zoepfel, Research Associate, Noble Capital Markets, Inc.

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New Award. Kratos subsidiary Micro Systems Inc. was awarded a $24 million ID/IQ contract to produce, test, and deliver a maximum quantity of 375 airborne transponders; 150 ground radio frequency units; 75 airborne relay and 15 test sets. This contract also includes the testing, teardown, and evaluation for a maximum quantity of 625 systems of naval targets control and 375 AN/DSQ-50A. Included as well are the repairs of up to 100 airborne transponders; 100 ground radio frequency units; 100 airborne relay; 30 test sets; 120 low rate initial production airborne transponders; 100 AN/DSQ-50A (L-Band) and 100 AN/DSQ-50A (S-Band) in support of target mission support systems for the Navy. Work is expected to be completed in April 2029.

SATCOM. Kratos and SES, a leader in global content connectivity solutions, successfully executed a fully virtualized satellite communications (SATCOM) ground system demonstration for the U.S. Army’s Combat Capabilities Development Command. Kratos and SES successfully showed a flexible network architecture facilitating simultaneous communication pathways for resilient SATCOM. As employed in this demonstration, Kratos’ OpenSpace is the first to leverage containers to orchestrate the transfer of communication sessions in a standards-based, open, COTS platform environment.


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Hemisphere Energy (HMENF) – Financial results benefit from fall drilling

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Monday, April 22, 2024

Michael Heim, Senior Vice President, Equity Research Analyst, Energy & Transportation, Noble Capital Markets, Inc.

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Results were in line with expectations absent charge. Income, cash flow and earnings for the 2023-4Q and 2023 year would have been in line with expectations absent a $4.2 million nonrecurring charge to write down non-core assets.

Quarter production rose 16% year over year due to an active fall drilling program. The increase was expected. Extreme weather hurt production in the first few months of 2024 (2024-1Q production was announced below that in our models) but has risen to all-time high levels recently. We have lowered our 2024-1Q production estimate but raised our estimate for the remaining quarter’s of 2024.


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Cumulus Media (CMLS) – Likely To Complete Debt Swap

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Monday, April 22, 2024

Cumulus Media (NASDAQ: CMLS) is an audio-first media company delivering premium content to over a quarter billion people every month — wherever and whenever they want it. Cumulus Media engages listeners with high-quality local programming through 406 owned-and-operated radio stations across 86 markets; delivers nationally-syndicated sports, news, talk, and entertainment programming from iconic brands including the NFL, the NCAA, the Masters, CNN, the AP, the Academy of Country Music Awards, and many other world-class partners across more than 9,500 affiliated stations through Westwood One, the largest audio network in America; and inspires listeners through the Cumulus Podcast Network, its rapidly growing network of original podcasts that are smart, entertaining and thought-provoking. Cumulus Media provides advertisers with personal connections, local impact and national reach through broadcast and on-demand digital, mobile, social, and voice-activated platforms, as well as integrated digital marketing services, powerful influencers, full-service audio solutions, industry-leading research and insights, and live event experiences. Cumulus Media is the only audio media company to provide marketers with local and national advertising performance guarantees. For more information visit www.cumulusmedia.com.

Michael Kupinski, Director of Research, Equity Research Analyst, Digital, Media & Technology , Noble Capital Markets, Inc.

Jacob Mutchler, Research Associate, Noble Capital Markets, Inc.

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Amended debt swap. Upon pressure from the majority of its debt holders, the company amended the terms of its debt swap, decreasing the discount on the debt from 80% to 94%, but also decreasing the interest rate from the previous plan of 8.75% to 8.0%. This plan for the debt conversion appears likely to be completed given that it is estimated that 90% plus of the holders have agreed to the terms. The company needs only 95% of its lenders to agree to the new terms by May 1 to complete the conversion. 

Lengthens maturities. The new debt will extend maturities from 2026 to 2029, providing a large runway for the company to execute its growth initiatives and debt reduction efforts. 


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Bitcoin Depot (BTM) – Seizing an Opportunity

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Monday, April 22, 2024

Michael Kupinski, Director of Research, Equity Research Analyst, Digital, Media & Technology , Noble Capital Markets, Inc.

Patrick McCann, CFA, Research Analyst, Noble Capital Markets, Inc.

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Opportunistic kiosk purchase.  On April 18, the company announced the purchase of roughly 2,300 Bitcoin kiosks at a discount of approximately 50% per-kiosk. Notably, the company plans to deploy the majority of these kiosks over the next two quarters. Once all the kiosks from the recent purchase are delivered, the company will have over 10,000 kiosks deployed, ahead of our previous expectations. We view the announcement favorably.

Sizeable profit-share investment. On April 12, the company announced an outside firm made a multi-million dollar investment in 250 Bitcoin kiosks as part of the company’s profit sharing (or franchising) program. Notably, the kiosks will be operated by the company and a percentage of profits will be paid out to participants. The agreement provides an option for additional investment of up to 750 kiosks.


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Bit Digital (BTBT) – The ‘Halving’ Commences

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Monday, April 22, 2024

Joe Gomes, Managing Director, Equity Research Analyst, Generalist , Noble Capital Markets, Inc.

Joshua Zoepfel, Research Associate, Noble Capital Markets, Inc.

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The Event. On Saturday, April 20th, 2024, the ‘halving’ event commenced with BTC. With the event, all miners will earn half of the mining rewards compared to before. According to CoinDesk, the event also brought higher transaction fees at $2.4 million for the ‘halving’ block compared to $40,000-$60,000 from before. The increased fees are partially attributed to network congestion from the launch of a new protocol, Runes. The protocol allows users to “etch” or mint tokens on the blockchain. The price of BTC decreased slightly to just under $64,000 on Saturday from roughly $65,490 last month.

What is the ‘Halving?’ Recall, the ‘halving’ occurs approximately every four years, in which the reward rate of bitcoin is halved. The reward rate is now at 3.125 BTC per block from a previous 6.25. These events will continue to occur until all potential 21 million bitcoin have been mined.


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Aurania Resources (AUIAF) – Rating Lowered to Market Perform; Moving in the Right Direction

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Monday, April 15, 2024

Mark Reichman, Managing Director, Equity Research Analyst, Natural Resources, Noble Capital Markets, Inc.

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Mineral concession renewal. In March, Aurania filed all appropriate documentation for the renewal of its 42 mineral exploration concessions in Ecuador. The company also filed a request with the government to enter into an agreement for payment of the associated annual concession fees. Aurania’s request was accepted, and the concessions remain in good standing while an agreement is reached. Management anticipates the process could take a couple of months to complete.

The plan forward. Maintaining Aurania’s full concession package is a significant step forward because it will allow the company to advance exploration activities dependent on funding availability and provide time to secure a joint venture or strategic partner to advance the project. Aurania’s management attended the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada Convention in March which provided an opportunity for Aurania’s management to meet with government officials from Ecuador and potential strategic partners. Given the backdrop of strong metals prices and the significant mineral endowment potential offered by Aurania’s property package, we believe it is only a matter of time before the company secures a partner.


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