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Today we are talking about two OTC Stock rockets, ILUS International, ticker ILUS, and Cyberlux Corporation, ticker CYBL. In this video I’ll give you a preliminary comparison of these two stocks, including stock chart review. Stick around to the end of the video, and I’ll share my opinion regarding which of these two stocks could make you more money in the long run. I’ll give each stock a score from 1 to 10 for each category, which I will total at the end to reveal a winner! Here the lower the score, the scarier the stock is for a long-term or swing trader.
But remember that OTC stocks are highly risky, so I only invest money in OTC’s that I can afford to lose. High risk versus high potential reward. And remember, this is not financial advice, and for entertainment only.
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Just to give you a quick overview on the business focus of these two stocks:
CYBL already had a solid LED lighting business, and has been a long-term player in the Defense area. Now with the acquisition of CTMC Drone Solutions, and FlightEye Drone Solutions, Cyberlux is positioned to take off in the drone services area and leverage their defense connections to close more DOD deals! CYBL has made one acquisition in 2021 with one more planned to hit soon. This drone business acquisition will enable CYBL to leverage the 10-years of government relationships, especially with the DOD, gained through their listing on the GSA contract. Listing on GSA is difficult to obtain and retain, and CYBL has done a great job in this area.
ILUS’ focus is primarily on innovative emergency services, life safety and related technologies from emergency response vehicles, electric utility vehicles to disruptive firefighting equipment and related software solutions. ILUS has already made three acquisitions of other businesses in 2021, with two more signed letters of intent for more purchases!
ILUS’ E-Raptor Utility Vehicles is a division that produces environmentally friendly utility vehicles, including the world’s first electric 6-wheel utility vehicle. The FireBug division includes UK firefighting equipment manufacturers, using high tech disruptive water mist technology offering increased safety with reduced water consumption. ILUS’ Vehicle Converters, or TVC division fabricates and converts specialized vehicles. ILUS’ BCD Fire Division is a leading systems integrator and installer of Fire, Access and Security systems across the United Arab Emirates, or UAE
When it comes to acquisitions, we’ll give CYBL a grade of 6 with ILUS’ grade of 10.
Yes, ILUS is up over 28,000%, and CYBL over 23,000% year-to-date, and they both are up over 200% over the past month. We are giving ILUS a 9, and CYBL an 8 in this category.
We all know that short seller pressures can have a big effect on stock pullbacks. This OTC short report shows CYBL being shorted between 36% and 49% in the recent past, and ILUS between 35% and 29%. Both are highly shorted stocks, but let’s give CYBL a grade of 7, and ILUS a grade of 8 for level shorted.
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The steadier the growth of a stock, the less likely we’ll be knocked out of it, or lose all our money. Here you can see the first pullback over the past year in ILUS.
ILUS had a high on February 2021 of .189 and a pullback for to a low of .06 on March 5th. Here you would have lost 316% of your gain in this pullback.
ILUS then mostly recovered to a high of .179 on 3/16, and began a long pullback to a low of .0399 on August 11th. Here you would have lost 448% of your former gain during this pullback. If you were still in the stock, the big runup began on 8/12 from .0443 to a high of .48 on September 28th, would have meant a 993% gain! This is before the most recent pullback in early October.
CYBL’s one year chart shows little movement in the first half of the year, but a long slide down from a high of .006 on February 17th, to a low of .0009 on May 20th, and loss of 666% on the previous gain. If you were still in the stock the chart reversed to a runup from .01 on August 31st to a high of .065 on September, 24th, or gain of 650%. Again, this was before the early October pullback.
Here ILUS is the winner with a lower percentage of pullback loss to a greater gain, versus CYBL. ILUS would be been the bigger profit winner. We’ll give ILUS a grade of 8 versus CYBL’s grade of 5.
We all know movement in OTC stocks is often driven by news. Here you can see ILUS released 5 news updates over the past month, but here CYBL released only one. This gains ILUS a grade of 6, and CYBL a grade of 1 for news releases within a 30-day period.
Hedge funds can have a big effect on an OTC stock, and they have the capability for a deeper level of analysis, and insight than individual traders do. We like to see more hedge funds owning a stock, with a good amount of shares indicating a belief in the stock’s future direction.
ILUS had two hedge fund holders in Q2 with 162,000 shares owned.
CYBL had one hedge fund holder with 300,000 shares owned.
Both stocks win an equal grade of 5 in this category.
When it comes to institutional investors, it’s better to own an OTC stock before the institutional investors discover it, and send the price up. But, if the stock already has institutional investors, you don’t want to see selling of their shares taking place.
CYBL has 1 institutional investor with added 300,000 shares, (this investor also acts as a hedge fund).
ILUS had 2 institutional investors with a Q2 addition of 42,800 shares, a sale of 871,875 shares, and one closed position with a sale of 2500 shares.
CYBL wins here with a grade of 9, versus ILUS’ grade of 4
Let’s look at the stocks’ security details comparison: We like to see a small market cap leaving for more growth, preferably under 100 Million, and outstanding shares under 2 Billion leaving room to uplist out of the OTC world, without a reverse stock split.
ILUS’ market cap is 418 million with shares outstanding of 1.2 Billion, and a share float of 3.4 Billion
CYBL’s market cap is 259 million, with 5.5 billion shares outstanding, and a float of 3.7 billion
Here CYBL’s 5.5 billion shares outstanding is going to make it tough to uplist without a reverse stock split, and impact on your shares. Despite the smaller market cap, here ILUS wins with a score of 6 versus CYBL’s score of 3.
Now that we’ve done an ILUS to CYBL comparison, let’s tally up the results:
When it comes to acquisitions, we’ll give CYBL a grade of 6 with ILUS’ grade of 10. ILUS is clearly hard to beat in this area with their multiple acquisitions completed and still planned for this year.
Percent shorted: I gave CYBL a grade of 7, and ILUS a grade of 8 for percentage of the stock shorted over a 7-day period. Either way, short sellers are consistently pounding these stocks!
For the one-year stock chart pullback percentages to gains, and potential to more safely make you more money. We awarded CYBL with a grade of 5, and ILUS with a grade of 8.
Hedge Fund Interest in these OTC stocks are a big deal, especially considering their ability to move-the-needle on the stock price. Here we gave CYBL a grade of 5, and ILUS the same grade of 5.
We want to beat the Institutional Investors into these OTC stocks, the best we can. Here we graded CYBL with a 9 and ILUS with a 4.
In our final category, and the all-important Security Details Comparison, we gave CYBL a 3, and ILUS a 6.
Now which stock is the winner in this BEST OTC stock shootout?
The winner is ILUS with a score of 49 to CYBL’s score of 40.
Honestly, ILUS winning this battle totally surprised me as I expected CYBL to be the clear winner, pretty much across the majority of categories! What do you think?
I always love hearing from you, so please let me know in the comments below, what your thoughts are about CYBL versus ILUS, and about any other stocks you’ like me to review. Also, go here to review the all deep-dive videos in or CYBL, ILUS and FERN playlist, including our CYBL Versus FERN shootout.