I read this post by user Adventurous Date a couple months back:
"Kodak now has 1.4 Billion in cash after they sold the excess from the pension. They only have 400 million in debt.
They could literally pay off all their debt and still have a billion in cash.
And the market cap is only… 532 million. That means the amount of cash they have is more than twice their market cap.
They’re also profitable and revenue exceeds 1 billion a year.
They could announce a $1 special dividend and it would only cost 60 million…. Stock is heavily shorted…
Do with this as you must.
[https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/savingandinvesting/kodak-stock-is-rising-it-found-a-boatload-of-cash-in-the-pension-plan/ar-AA1uNokA?ocid=finance-verthp-feeds](https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/savingandinvesting/kodak-stock-is-rising-it-found-a-boatload-of-cash-in-the-pension-plan/ar-AA1uNokA?ocid=finance-verthp-feeds)
Also, the COVID era pharmaceutical ingredient manufacturing plant (Trump announced, sent stock soaring 3,200% in 2 days) is almost complete. Story from 2 weeks ago:
[https://www.rochesterfirst.com/news/business/local-business/kodak-pharmaceutical-ingredient-factory-nearing-completion/amp/](https://www.rochesterfirst.com/news/business/local-business/kodak-pharmaceutical-ingredient-factory-nearing-completion/amp/)
Finally, the US imposed tariffs last month on Kodak’s competitors, to specifically help Kodak, the only US manufacturer of aluminum printing plates:
[https://www.alcircle.com/news/kodak-s-call-for-tariffs-answered-us-to-impose-hefty-duties-on-imported-aluminium-printing-plates-112353?srsltid=AfmBOoqcAD-pC6yafn8auf4oN60aQaPUrgDLx2vh3zrUHHJyXT-TQNqx](https://www.alcircle.com/news/kodak-s-call-for-tariffs-answered-us-to-impose-hefty-duties-on-imported-aluminium-printing-plates-112353?srsltid=AfmBOoqcAD-pC6yafn8auf4oN60aQaPUrgDLx2vh3zrUHHJyXT-TQNqx)
And for fun: Did you know Kodak had a secret nuclear room with highly enriched weapons grade uranium?
[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/kodak-reveals-it-had-secret-nuclear-reactor-for-30-years-7754328.html](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/kodak-reveals-it-had-secret-nuclear-reactor-for-30-years-7754328.html)
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I got curious and called Kodak Investor Relations to ask what they will do with the money, and what their main source of revenue was. He told me they have no current plans to use the cash, and that their primary source of revenue was commercial printing but might soon be eclipsed by their Advanced Materials and Chemicals sector. He then said that they will roll out some new sources of revenue in 2025 that the market would react well to. Now you're gonna have to Trust Me Bro on that one because I did not record the phone call.
Now we all know the Orange Man loves Kodak, he loaned them $765 million during his first administration (https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/07/28/896209016/trump-gives-medical-stockpile-a-kodak-moment-with-new-loan-to-make-drugs) and he loves all things "old Timey" so you know he loves this:
https://preview.redd.it/81qhb1ya30de1.png?width=520&format=png&auto=webp&s=6c98be9d52deb9bb934aa642b149f82700d68118
With all of this in mind, I bought 400 shares of KODK at $6.55 and I am hoping for some sort of boost from the Orange Guy, or the new product rollout, or their use of the 1.4 Billion in cash. Their stock peaked at $7.74 a few weeks after the announcement that they had 1.4 Billion in cash, and is currently at $6.38.
https://preview.redd.it/rse77gkz30de1.png?width=2856&format=png&auto=webp&s=c693c02d07c8d683b15080ff24e54e588f64bdce