Zoltek Companies, Inc. (NASDAQ:ZOLT)

stock will be bought out!

ZOLT is a carbon fiber play. I think that this is a major base material for our future. All over our lives. Lighter cars = smaller engines with equal performance = more efficient cars. And that's just one. Windmill blades. The ability for carbon fiber to improve on tons of products currently using traditional metals.

Carbon fiber is the future one word for you son, plastics or carbon whatever

Ongoing diversification into oil industry and auto parts applications will continue to grow the overall output. Margins are substantial and reasonable. Wind turbine applications that were hard hit by natural gas glut are not a factor in europe where Vestas buys carbon fiber for turbines. The biggets investing distraction is the over-reaction of the market to the company's hitting or missing expectations by fractional increments. A solid product and well-managed corporate debt structure in a company that has what the future needs. Think rubber companies in the late 1800s.

They made some smart buys and have lots of excess capacity, and their long-term planning may be finally paying off:http://247wallst.com/2012/03/28/zoltek-makes-deal-shares-soar-zolt-mga/ Insiders have been buying non-stop for... years now I think.

Really? The few pieces of positive information we have received on this company in the past few quarters do not make up for the other major fundamental issues with it performance, industry, and past problems yet to be resolved. Given an extremely long time this may become a good company, but they have a long road ahead and current share price increases do not mesh well with that reality. Good luck to them, but for now the stock will bleed away the gains of the last few months given any volume and/or deep capital trader attention.

With the looming expiration of the PTC (production tax credit) for in 2012 wind energy is set to have a significant falloff in the second half of next year. As a result, my expectaion is that Zolt will take a significant hit. However, given the 1st half of next year will be extremely busy for the wind industry, it may be a good buy for short term gain.

Long term fire and forget play on carbon fire proliferation in the future.

Energy saving

Carbon fiber will take over

though expensive, is there a possibility of invreasing usage in the auto market?Lighter weights, less gas used!

WInd power will begin to grow quite strongly in 2011-2012, with the end of austerity, crisis of Japan, and reevaluation of priorities. Further, offshore wind is the next development in power generation and will begin to become a real draw.

Test, 2011.

This is a long term pick. I should wait until the stock falls down to a more reasonable price than the current one.... I would put in a limit order but I always have dozens of stocks in the "pending" queue. I feel alright about it though because of the insiders buying.

Feel about it.

This is one of my STARZ.
Here is the thought process on this STAR:
a) Divided rate over Zero
b) 3 Year Beta between -5 & +3
c) 15% + Insider ownership
d) No greater than -50% Growth rate for the last 3 years (tough last couple of years so good that insiders are still owning the stocks)
e) Current CAPS rating between 3 Stars & 5 Stars
Open to all Industries and Sectors screened this down to just 250 stocks. I like round numbers. 12 of them I already own through other screening tools. I tend to be somewhat conservative but looking for 3 things at this point in my investing:
1. Stability & Strength
2. Yield and Modest Growth
3. Strong Position within a sector regardless of whether the
entire sector is strong or not. Each sector has to perform to some degree for the whole world economy to function. I am looking for 5 or more years down the road, ROI, and Growth. Not looking for rockets, just stars. This is a Star!!

carbon fiber is expanding

very high p/e...
Current p/e 75, forward p/e 56

Commercial carbon fiber allows incomparable strength and stiffness at low, sustainable costs. Wind, infrastructure, auto, secondary aerospace, friction, and medical are just the tip of the iceberg of industries that benefit from Zoltek carbon fibers. Lifecycle costs are the golden egg of mechanical efficiency and low cost commercial carbon fibers deliver.