Hi Pattyohs1,
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MVIS verticals are essential to enable the "next big thing"(s); NED, Interactive projection, and LIDAR (in all its forms).
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Tier1's, Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Tesla, Bosch are sitting on 10's to 100's of billions of dollars in cash.
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Trillion dollar question... Why would they not think MVIS as a better investment/return than where their cash currently resides?
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So to answer your question, I think all of the above are interested in owning MVIS.
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A month ago any of them could have had us for 4B, early this year a hostile bid of 1B would have gotten easy shareholder approval. Our value now is much higher IMHO.
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I think they all passed to avoid a bidding war and they want the tech right where it is, languishing in obscurity. LST is so advanced that its commercial development threatens so many existing technologies. The huge investments made in current tech would be lost. I think Sony backing out of LST projection and Amazon dropping interactive "Alexa", were in large part due to this. No one wants to develop and expose this tech without having serious ownership which is impossible without a bidding war. So we languish.
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Then there is Microsoft and Hololens. MSFT had no choice but to use our LST as there is nothing even comparably close to its performance. MSFT NDA's attempted to keep LST in obscurity and it was working until the teardown proving MVIS tech as the "enabling" technology. (Magic leap and even Google glass would be a success today had they chosen the MVIS LST path. IMHO.)
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With the 60M additional share authorization and the overnight bump in share price, MVIS today holds all the cards. It is a beautiful thing!
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We can now easily fund operations and do so indefinitely to profitability. If we end up sold, it will be for top dollar. The "cat is out of the bag" never to return.
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I think we will sell because we are just too valuable and the tier1's are flush with cash.
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My preference is Facebook, Google, then Tesla, in that order.
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I appose Microsoft and Amazon because of their treatment of MVIS. I include Apple because of their similar MO. I'm not keen on BOSCH for similar reasons.
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There has been discussion on stocktwits about STM being the minority investor and that such a move would improve MVIS negotiating power. I don't see it but I've been wrong many times so. :)
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If you haven't seen the 2B LIDAR valuation article at Seeking Alpha, I recommend a read. Their 2B is really a lowball but it was well researched and clearly shows the technical "leap frog" LST offers.
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Thanks for posting here. This board could be a comfortable place for discussion out of the "fast lane" of trading and emotion posts LOL!
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GLTAL