Traders Chasing e-Future (EFUT)

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e-Future Information Technology (NASDAQ: EFUT) is indicated up about 15% after the Chinese supply chain management software and services company posted earnings last night.  It posted revenues of $3.5 million and gross profit was $2 million, with non-GAAP income at $1.1 million.  While this is small, it is more than a 100% gain in revenues.  It also listed its deferred revenue as of June 30 as being $8.9 million and said it sees 2008 total revenues of $19 to $20 million with adjusted EBITDA of $5 to $6 million on a non-GAAP basis.

What is interesting here is not just the size.  The market cap beforethis morning’s pop is only about $33 million.  That number may actuallybe higher now as it noted that a recent convertible note privateplacement of $10 million had been converted by 90% into equity.  Thereare also no research analysts that follow the stock.  This is still atiny company but it is gapping up more than 12% to $12.40 in pre-market trading.

The other issue to watch is that its 52-week trading range is $9.35 to$34.00.  If there has ever been a cult stock that traders chase aroundon news it is this type of stock.  This is thin volume as we have onlyseen about 9,900 shares trade so far this morning and average daily volume isclose to 59,000 shares and its most recent short interest is about206,000 shares.  It also has no stock options.

Let the games begin.

Jon C. Ogg
September 9, 2008

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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