This Guns, Ammo Company Has A Better 1-Year Return Than Netflix, Apple, Tesla

 

Has AMMO  Outpaced Other Consumer Discretionary Stocks This Year?

Ammo Inc (symbol POWW) is an ammunition company that  sells and manufactures ammo that packs a punch at the shooting range, and the stock has packed a punch for shareholders throughout the last year.

Ammo Inc produces a type of bullet, Streak Ammunition, that creates a visual line for shooters to see the bullet’s path. Guns and ammo sales have increased significantly throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, catapulting Ammo’s stock by more than 150% throughout the last year.

Here is a comparison: Netflix Inc  stock is up from $490.65 a share to $592.39 for a return of about 20.74%.

During the same time period, Ammo Inc.’s stock went up from $2.31 to $6.30, for a return of about 172.73%.

POWW belongs to the Leisure and Recreation Products industry, a group that includes 21 individual companies.

POWW will likely be looking to continue its solid performance, so investors interested in Consumer Discretionary stocks should continue to pay close attention to the company.

For those looking to find strong Consumer Discretionary stocks, it is prudent to search for companies in the group that are outperforming their peers. AMMO (POWW) is a stock that can certainly grab the attention of many investors, but do its recent returns compare favorably to the sector as a whole?.

AMMO is a member of the Consumer Discretionary sector. This group includes 261 individual stocks and currently holds a Zacks Sector Rank of #6. The Zacks Sector Rank includes 16 different groups and is listed in order from best to worst in terms of the average Zacks Rank of the individual companies within each of these sectors.

Within the past quarter, the Zacks Consensus Estimate for POWW's full-year earnings has moved 23.68% higher. This shows that analyst sentiment has improved and the company's earnings outlook is stronger.

Editor Rob Longwell

 

Open AI Introduces AI chat for everyday life.

In December, OpenAI, one of the world’s most ambitious A.I. labs introduced an incredibly smart AI chat app. It is current available free to the public.

 Asked even complex math or physics questions, the AI answers in clear, well-punctuated prose. With mind-boggling fluency, the natural-language system can write, argue and code.

 Among many other uses, the chatbot could be applied a new kind of personal tutor. It could teach math, science and English.

 It can also write poems or stories if given the outline. The system lets you create digital images simply by describing what you want to see.

Many experts believe these new chatbots are poised to reinvent or even replace internet search engines like Google and Bing. Users are consistently amazed by its talent for open-ended conversation.

 They can serve up information in tight sentences, rather than long lists of blue links. They explain concepts in ways that people can understand. And they can deliver facts, while also generating business plans, term paper topics and other new ideas from scratch.

 It can extrapolate and take ideas from different contexts and merge them together. However, at the same time they may even inadvertently blend fact with fiction, as could be expected from a system trained from vast amounts of information posted to the internet. Chatbots have a way of taking what they have learned and reshaping it into something new — with no regard for whether it is true.

These systems cannot exactly chat like a human, but they often seem to. They can also retrieve and repackage information with a speed that humans never could. They can be thought of as digital assistants. And, no doubt, they will evove futher as time goes on.

OpenAI is among the many companies, academic labs and independent researchers working to build more advanced chatbots. Some readily available apps are currently available for you to try out.

Open AI at openai.com offers a free app.

DataBot is an AI-powered virtual assistant, and it's available on Windows 10, Android, and iOS. It's also available on Xbox One, iPad, iPod, Android tablets, and Windows phones. This app answers your questions in its voice, and it addresses the topics that matter to you.

 

By Rob Longwell, editor

MicroTokens Newest advance in Cybersecurity by Secure Cloud

MicroTokens offer Newest advance in Cybersecurity for Drones and Tanks

by Rob Longwell
December 22, 2016

Secure Cloud Systems, Inc. has developed unique, patent-pending software solutions that provide “ultra” cybersecurity for industrial controls and mission-critical national security applications.  The Company has been awarded $19.5 million in Army research appropriations to secure autonomous vehicles and systems and is strategically positioned for military orders exceeding $200 million by 2020.  SCS is similarly poised for significant commercial expansion in high-growth critical infrastructure sectors associated with the Internet of Things (IoT). 

Technology

SCS has developed a revolutionary approach to securing commands on distributed connected systems.  Instructions between controllers and paired digital devices are conveyed as MicroTokens, or command-level encrypted messages.  Each discrete command between a controller and a device is uniquely tokenized.  The tokens are strongly secured through various techniques and contain no actual data; proprietary information is never transmitted or exposed to potential interception. Even if a breach were to occur in a network where SCS protects command data, the tokenized data stream is unrecognizable and impervious to so-called man-in-the-middle or malware attacks.  Numerous additional security measures are employed:  tokens can only be used once and become instantly obsolete.  Valid tokens containing encrypted messages are hidden in flows of false “digital chaff.”  And randomized packet sizes, time stamps and advanced hashing procedures assure the integrity of command libraries and data transfer against manipulation and potential backdoors.  SCS’s lightweight footprint can be deployed on embedded systems such as microprocessors or as a software-only solution.  Critically, SCS’s data-level and command-oriented security solution is compatible with existing firewalls, identity management solutions, network protocols and encryption algorithms.  It can be installed on a wide variety of systems, platforms and devices.  SCS has three patents pending thus far.

Defense

The U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research and Engineering Center (TARDEC) has selected SCS to provide a comprehensive security solution to enable autonomous operation of heavy- and medium-weight battlefield transport vehicles.  The company has been awarded a Research, Development, Test and Engineering (RDT&E) appropriation of $5.54 million in fiscal year 2016, with anticipated extensions of $7 million in FY17 and FY18, for a program total of $19.54 million.  The RDT&E process is slated to achieve type approval known as Technology Readiness Level 9 (TRL-9) in approximately 18-24 months.  With final acceptance and testing, SCS and its partners project equipping over 20,000 vehicles by 2020 with a target price point of $12,500 per vehicle.  The five-year program is estimated to yield sales exceeding $200 million.  With TRL-9 approval, our solution can be incorporated on numerous additional platforms such as UAVs and remote weapons systems, including for other military and government departments.  SCS’s partner for TARDEC is PD Systems, one of four DoD prime contractors on the $3.7 billion Army Technical Services 3 (TS3) contract.  Further, SCS has a teaming agreement with MicroTech, a prime contractor for the $5.7 billion Air Force NETCENTS-2 contract, to pursue related opportunities.

Commercial

SCS’s commercialization strategy focuses on high-value critical infrastructure sectors in which national security and public safety are paramount.  Management believes that its military experience will create a “gold standard” for secure industrial applications, and that corporate revenue opportunities will approach or outweigh the sizable potential for defense. In addition to software licensing, in the commercial sector we will introduce a SaaS business model to provide secure updates to remotely connected devices.  The automotive sector is a leading priority where we expect to leverage our autonomous military vehicle expertise and significant industry relationships.  The electric utility power grid is highly vulnerable to cyberattack and accounts for up to 40 percent of all commercial IoT spending.  Strong near-term potential also exists in medical devices and smart city applications.  Secure Cloud has begun strategic conversations in each segment and will accelerate efforts post funding through the acquisition of a senior business development team and articulation of the channel partner strategy.

Revenue Potential

SCS recently received an RDT&E contract from the Army totaling $19.54 million from March 2016 through October 2018.  Potential revenues after successful completion could reach over $320 million by 2020. Successful commercial applications have to potential to move revenues into the billions.

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