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Fritzy Tech (FRFR) Risk Analysis

Public companies are required to disclose risks that can affect the business and impact the stock. These disclosures are known as “Risk Factors”. Companies disclose these risks in their yearly (Form 10-K), quarterly earnings (Form 10-Q), or “foreign private issuer” reports (Form 20-F). Risk factors show the challenges a company faces. Investors can consider the worst-case scenarios before making an investment. TipRanks’ Risk Analysis categorizes risks based on proprietary classification algorithms and machine learning. Fritzy Tech disclosed 25 risk factors in its most recent earnings report. Fritzy Tech reported the most risks in the “Finance & Corporate” category.

Risk Overview Q2, 2018

Source: the company's latest filing for the period ended Jun 30, 2018, filed Oct 11, 2018

Risk Distribution
25Risks
Sector Avg.Finance & CorporateTech & InnovationLegal & RegulatoryProductionAbility to SellMacro & Political
Finance & Corporate - Financial and accounting risks. Risks related to the execution of corporate activity and strategy

Risk Change Over Time

No filing history is available.

Risks removedRisks addedRisks changedFritzy Tech Risk Factors
  • Share Price & Shareholder Rights - Risk 1
    We are significantly influenced by one stockholder who controls a voting majority of our common stock.

    As of December 1, 2017, Silverlight holds a majority of our common stock. Accordingly, Silverlight has the power to influence or control the outcome of important corporate decisions or matters submitted to a vote of our stockholders. Also, the principal shareholder of Silverlight currently serves as the sole director of the Company. He is also president of the Company. Although Mr. Hooi owes the Company certain fiduciary duties as a director of the Company, the interests of Mr. Hooi may conflict with, or differ from, the interests of other holders of our common stock. So long as Mr. Hooi has the power to vote a majority of shares of our voting securities, he will have the power to significantly influence and/or control all our corporate decisions and will be able to effect or inhibit changes in control of the Company.

  • Share Price & Shareholder Rights - Risk 2
    Our stock price is volatile.

    The market price of our common stock is highly volatile, and this volatility may continue. Numerous factors, many of which are beyond our control, may cause the market price of our shares of common stock to fluctuate significantly. These factors include: - our earnings releases, actual or anticipated changes in our earnings, fluctuations in our operating results or our failure to meet the expectations of financial market analysts and investors;     - changes in financial estimates by us or by any securities analysts who might cover our stock;     - speculation about our business in the press or the investment community;     - significant developments relating to our relationships with our Business Associates, business clients, customers or merchants;     - stock market price and volume fluctuations of other publicly traded companies and, in particular, those that are in the e-commerce based industry;     - customer demand for our products;     - general economic conditions and trends;     - major catastrophic events;     - changes in accounting standards, policies, guidance, interpretation or principles;     - loss of external funding sources;     - sales of our common stock, including divestments by our directors, officers or significant stockholders;     - additions or departures of key personnel;- announcements of new products or product enhancements by us or our competitors;     - our ability to obtain financing;     - developments in our or our competitors' intellectual property rights;     - adverse effects to our operating results due to impairment of goodwill;     - failure to meet the expectation of securities analysts or the public;     - our ability to expand our operations, domestically and internationally;     - the amount and timing of expenditures related to any expansion;     - litigation involving us, our industry or both;     - actual or anticipated changes in expectations by investors or analysts regarding our performance; and     - price and volume fluctuations in the overall stock market from time to time. Our stock price is volatile and we could be a target of stockholder litigation. Any stockholder litigation brought against us in the future could result in substantial costs and divert our management's attention and resources from our business. Moreover, securities markets may from time to time experience significant price and volume fluctuations for reasons unrelated to operating performance of particular companies. These market fluctuations may adversely affect the price of our shares of common stock and other interests in our Company at a time when you want to sell your interest in us.

  • Share Price & Shareholder Rights - Risk 3
    We may, in the future, issue additional common shares that would reduce investors' percent of ownership and may dilute our share value.

    The future issuance of common shares may result in substantial dilution in the percentage of our common shares held by our then existing stockholders. We may value any common shares issued in the future on an arbitrary basis. The issuance of common shares for future services or acquisitions or other corporate actions may have the effect of diluting the value of the common shares held by our investors, and might have an adverse effect on any trading market for our common shares.

  • Share Price & Shareholder Rights - Risk 4
    The Market for Penny Stock has suffered in recent years from patterns of fraud and abuse

    Stockholders should be aware that, according to SEC Release No. 34-29093, the market for penny stocks has suffered in recent years from patterns of fraud and abuse. Such patterns include: (i) control of the market for the security by one or a few broker-dealers that are often related to the promoter or issuer; (ii) manipulation of prices through prearranged matching of purchases and sales and false and misleading press releases; (iii) boiler room practices involving high-pressure sales tactics and unrealistic price projections by inexperienced salespersons; (iv) excessive and undisclosed bid-ask differential and markups by selling broker-dealers; and, (v) the wholesale dumping of the same securities by promoters and broker-dealers after prices have been manipulated to a desired level, along with the resulting inevitable collapse of those prices and with consequential investor losses.

  • Share Price & Shareholder Rights - Risk 5
    Our common shares are subject to the "Penny Stock" Rules of the SEC, which makes transactions in our stock cumbersome and may reduce the value of an investment in our stock.

    The SEC has adopted regulations that generally define a "penny stock" to be any equity security other than a security excluded from such definition by Rule 3a51-1 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. For the purposes relevant to our Company, it is any equity security that has a market price of less than $5.00 per share, subject to certain exceptions. Our common shares are currently regarded as a "penny stock", since our shares are not listed on a national stock exchange or quoted on the NASDAQ Market within the United States, to the extent the market price for its shares is less than $5.00 per share. The penny stock rules require a broker-dealer to deliver a standardized risk disclosure document prepared by the SEC, to provide a customer with additional information including current bid and offer quotations for the penny stock, the compensation of the broker-dealer and its salesperson in the transaction, monthly account statements showing the market value of each penny stock held in the customer's account, and to make a special written determination that the penny stock is a suitable investment for the purchaser, and receive the purchaser's written agreement to the transaction. To the extent these requirements may be applicable; they will reduce the level of trading activity in the secondary market for the common shares and may severely and adversely affect the ability of broker-dealers to sell the common shares.

  • Share Price & Shareholder Rights - Risk 6
    FINRA sales practice requirements may also limit a stockholders ability to buy and sell our stock.

    In addition to the penny stock rules promulgated by the SEC, which are discussed in the immediately preceding risk factor, FINRA rules require that in recommending an investment to a customer, a broker-dealer must have reasonable grounds for believing that the investment is suitable for that customer. Prior to recommending speculative low priced securities to their non-institutional customers, broker-dealers must make reasonable efforts to obtain information about the customer's financial status, tax status, investment objectives and other information. Under interpretations of these rules, FINRA believes that there is a high probability that speculative low priced securities will not be suitable for at least some customers. FINRA requirements make it more difficult for broker-dealers to recommend that their customers buy our common stock, which may limit the ability to buy and sell our stock and have an adverse effect on the market value for our shares.

  • Share Price & Shareholder Rights - Risk 7
    Our common stock may experience extreme rises or declines in price, and you may not be able to sell your shares at or above the price paid.

    Our common stock may be highly volatile and could be subject to extreme fluctuations in response to various factors, many of which are beyond our control, including (but not necessarily limited to): (i) the trading volume of our shares; (ii) the number of securities analysts, market-makers and brokers following our common stock; (iii) changes in, or failure to achieve, financial estimates by securities analysts; (iv) actual or anticipated variations in quarterly operating results; (v) conditions or trends in our business industries; (vi) announcements by us of significant contracts, acquisitions, strategic partnerships, joint ventures or capital commitments; (vii) additions or departures of key personnel; (viii) sales of our common stock; and (ix) general stock market price and volume fluctuations of publicly-trading and particularly, microcap companies. Investors may have difficulty reselling shares of our common stock, either at or above the price they paid for our stock, or even at fair market value. The stock markets often experience significant price and volume changes that are not related to the operating performance of individual companies, and because our common stock is thinly traded it is particularly susceptible to such changes. These broad market changes may cause the market price of our common stock to decline regardless of how well we perform as a company. In addition, there is a history of securities class action litigation following periods of volatility in the market price of a company's securities. Although there is no such shareholder litigation currently pending or threatened against the Company, such a suit against us could result in the incursion of substantial legal fees, potential liabilities and the diversion of management's attention and resources from our business. Moreover, and as noted below, our shares are currently traded on the OTC-BB and, further, are subject to the penny stock regulations. Price fluctuations in such shares are particularly volatile and subject to manipulation by market-makers, short-sellers and option traders.

  • Share Price & Shareholder Rights - Risk 8
    A decline in the price of our common stock could affect our ability to raise further working capital, it may adversely impact our ability to continue operations and we may go out of business.

    A prolonged decline in the price of our common stock could result in a reduction in the liquidity of our common stock and a reduction in our ability to raise capital. Because we may attempt to acquire a significant portion of the funds we need in order to conduct our planned operations through the sale of equity securities, or convertible debt instruments, a decline in the price of our common stock could be detrimental to our liquidity and our operations because the decline may cause investors to not choose to invest in our stock. If we are unable to raise the funds we require for all our planned operations, we may be forced to reallocate funds from other planned uses and may suffer a significant negative effect on our business plan and operations, including our ability to develop new products and continue our current operations. As a result, our business may suffer, and not be successful and we may go out of business. We also might not be able to meet our financial obligations if we cannot raise enough funds through the sale of our common stock and we may be forced to go out of business.

  • Accounting & Financial Operations - Risk 9
    We have not and do not intend to pay any cash dividends on our common shares and, consequently, our stockholders will not be able to receive a return on their shares unless they sell them.

    We intend to retain any future earnings to finance the development and expansion of our business. We have not, and do not, anticipate paying any cash dividends on our common shares in the foreseeable future. Unless we pay dividends, our stockholders will not be able to receive a return on their shares unless they sell them.

  • Accounting & Financial Operations - Risk 10
    Our business model may not generate revenues sufficient to support our operations. Such insufficiency and/ or losses in the future could have a material adverse effect on our financial condition, our ability to pay our debts as they become due, our cash flows and our ability to support our operations.

    Since the inception of our operations we have not generated sufficient revenues to fund our expenses and other cash outflows. Our future revenue generation is dependent upon the success of our online shopping platform. To date, we have not yet obtained enough fees from our merchants or facilitated enough purchase activity to generate net revenues sufficient to support our operations. If we are not able to successfully expand the number of merchants and the volume of products sales on the platform, our revenues will not increase and we may not be able to sustain our operations. If our revenues do not increase, our liquidity may continue to be severely impaired, our stock price may fall and our stockholders may lose all or a significant portion of their investment. If we are not able to attain profitability in the near future our financial condition could deteriorate further which could have a material adverse impact on our business and prospects.

  • Debt & Financing - Risk 11
    We are dependent upon our ability to raise capital to continue operations, achieve our business objectives and to satisfy our cash obligations, which would dilute the ownership of our existing stockholders and possibly subordinate certain of their rights to the rights of new investors.

    We have incurred losses since our inception and we experienced negative net cash flows from operating activities. The Company has an accumulated deficit for the period from our inception through February, 2018. These factors raise substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern. Until such time as the cash inflows derived from our operations cover our operating and other expenditures, we will need to raise capital. We may not be able to obtain this additional debt or equity when needed.. Any sales of additional equity or convertible debt securities would result in dilution of the equity interests of our existing stockholders, which could be substantial. New investors may require that we and certain of our stockholders enter into voting arrangements that give them additional voting control or representation on our Board of Directors.

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Risk Highlights Q2, 2018

Main Risk Category
Finance & Corporate
With 11 Risks
Number of Disclosed Risks
25
-14
From last report
S&P 500 Average: 32
Recent Changes
25Risks added
39Risks removed
0Risks changed
Since Jun 2018
Number of Risk Changed
0
-1
From last report
S&P 500 Average: 1

Risk Word Cloud

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Risk Factors Full Breakdown - Total Risks 25

Share Price & Shareholder Rights8 | 32.0%
  • Share Price & Shareholder Rights - Risk 1Added
    We are significantly influenced by one stockholder who controls a voting majority of our common stock.

    As of December 1, 2017, Silverlight holds a majority of our common stock. Accordingly, Silverlight has the power to influence or control the outcome of important corporate decisions or matters submitted to a vote of our stockholders. Also, the principal shareholder of Silverlight currently serves as the sole director of the Company. He is also president of the Company. Although Mr. Hooi owes the Company certain fiduciary duties as a director of the Company, the interests of Mr. Hooi may conflict with, or differ from, the interests of other holders of our common stock. So long as Mr. Hooi has the power to vote a majority of shares of our voting securities, he will have the power to significantly influence and/or control all our corporate decisions and will be able to effect or inhibit changes in control of the Company.

  • Share Price & Shareholder Rights - Risk 2Added
    Our stock price is volatile.

    The market price of our common stock is highly volatile, and this volatility may continue. Numerous factors, many of which are beyond our control, may cause the market price of our shares of common stock to fluctuate significantly. These factors include: - our earnings releases, actual or anticipated changes in our earnings, fluctuations in our operating results or our failure to meet the expectations of financial market analysts and investors;     - changes in financial estimates by us or by any securities analysts who might cover our stock;     - speculation about our business in the press or the investment community;     - significant developments relating to our relationships with our Business Associates, business clients, customers or merchants;     - stock market price and volume fluctuations of other publicly traded companies and, in particular, those that are in the e-commerce based industry;     - customer demand for our products;     - general economic conditions and trends;     - major catastrophic events;     - changes in accounting standards, policies, guidance, interpretation or principles;     - loss of external funding sources;     - sales of our common stock, including divestments by our directors, officers or significant stockholders;     - additions or departures of key personnel;- announcements of new products or product enhancements by us or our competitors;     - our ability to obtain financing;     - developments in our or our competitors' intellectual property rights;     - adverse effects to our operating results due to impairment of goodwill;     - failure to meet the expectation of securities analysts or the public;     - our ability to expand our operations, domestically and internationally;     - the amount and timing of expenditures related to any expansion;     - litigation involving us, our industry or both;     - actual or anticipated changes in expectations by investors or analysts regarding our performance; and     - price and volume fluctuations in the overall stock market from time to time. Our stock price is volatile and we could be a target of stockholder litigation. Any stockholder litigation brought against us in the future could result in substantial costs and divert our management's attention and resources from our business. Moreover, securities markets may from time to time experience significant price and volume fluctuations for reasons unrelated to operating performance of particular companies. These market fluctuations may adversely affect the price of our shares of common stock and other interests in our Company at a time when you want to sell your interest in us.

  • Share Price & Shareholder Rights - Risk 3Added
    We may, in the future, issue additional common shares that would reduce investors' percent of ownership and may dilute our share value.

    The future issuance of common shares may result in substantial dilution in the percentage of our common shares held by our then existing stockholders. We may value any common shares issued in the future on an arbitrary basis. The issuance of common shares for future services or acquisitions or other corporate actions may have the effect of diluting the value of the common shares held by our investors, and might have an adverse effect on any trading market for our common shares.

  • Share Price & Shareholder Rights - Risk 4Added
    The Market for Penny Stock has suffered in recent years from patterns of fraud and abuse

    Stockholders should be aware that, according to SEC Release No. 34-29093, the market for penny stocks has suffered in recent years from patterns of fraud and abuse. Such patterns include: (i) control of the market for the security by one or a few broker-dealers that are often related to the promoter or issuer; (ii) manipulation of prices through prearranged matching of purchases and sales and false and misleading press releases; (iii) boiler room practices involving high-pressure sales tactics and unrealistic price projections by inexperienced salespersons; (iv) excessive and undisclosed bid-ask differential and markups by selling broker-dealers; and, (v) the wholesale dumping of the same securities by promoters and broker-dealers after prices have been manipulated to a desired level, along with the resulting inevitable collapse of those prices and with consequential investor losses.

  • Share Price & Shareholder Rights - Risk 5Added
    Our common shares are subject to the "Penny Stock" Rules of the SEC, which makes transactions in our stock cumbersome and may reduce the value of an investment in our stock.

    The SEC has adopted regulations that generally define a "penny stock" to be any equity security other than a security excluded from such definition by Rule 3a51-1 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. For the purposes relevant to our Company, it is any equity security that has a market price of less than $5.00 per share, subject to certain exceptions. Our common shares are currently regarded as a "penny stock", since our shares are not listed on a national stock exchange or quoted on the NASDAQ Market within the United States, to the extent the market price for its shares is less than $5.00 per share. The penny stock rules require a broker-dealer to deliver a standardized risk disclosure document prepared by the SEC, to provide a customer with additional information including current bid and offer quotations for the penny stock, the compensation of the broker-dealer and its salesperson in the transaction, monthly account statements showing the market value of each penny stock held in the customer's account, and to make a special written determination that the penny stock is a suitable investment for the purchaser, and receive the purchaser's written agreement to the transaction. To the extent these requirements may be applicable; they will reduce the level of trading activity in the secondary market for the common shares and may severely and adversely affect the ability of broker-dealers to sell the common shares.

  • Share Price & Shareholder Rights - Risk 6Added
    FINRA sales practice requirements may also limit a stockholders ability to buy and sell our stock.

    In addition to the penny stock rules promulgated by the SEC, which are discussed in the immediately preceding risk factor, FINRA rules require that in recommending an investment to a customer, a broker-dealer must have reasonable grounds for believing that the investment is suitable for that customer. Prior to recommending speculative low priced securities to their non-institutional customers, broker-dealers must make reasonable efforts to obtain information about the customer's financial status, tax status, investment objectives and other information. Under interpretations of these rules, FINRA believes that there is a high probability that speculative low priced securities will not be suitable for at least some customers. FINRA requirements make it more difficult for broker-dealers to recommend that their customers buy our common stock, which may limit the ability to buy and sell our stock and have an adverse effect on the market value for our shares.

  • Share Price & Shareholder Rights - Risk 7Added
    Our common stock may experience extreme rises or declines in price, and you may not be able to sell your shares at or above the price paid.

    Our common stock may be highly volatile and could be subject to extreme fluctuations in response to various factors, many of which are beyond our control, including (but not necessarily limited to): (i) the trading volume of our shares; (ii) the number of securities analysts, market-makers and brokers following our common stock; (iii) changes in, or failure to achieve, financial estimates by securities analysts; (iv) actual or anticipated variations in quarterly operating results; (v) conditions or trends in our business industries; (vi) announcements by us of significant contracts, acquisitions, strategic partnerships, joint ventures or capital commitments; (vii) additions or departures of key personnel; (viii) sales of our common stock; and (ix) general stock market price and volume fluctuations of publicly-trading and particularly, microcap companies. Investors may have difficulty reselling shares of our common stock, either at or above the price they paid for our stock, or even at fair market value. The stock markets often experience significant price and volume changes that are not related to the operating performance of individual companies, and because our common stock is thinly traded it is particularly susceptible to such changes. These broad market changes may cause the market price of our common stock to decline regardless of how well we perform as a company. In addition, there is a history of securities class action litigation following periods of volatility in the market price of a company's securities. Although there is no such shareholder litigation currently pending or threatened against the Company, such a suit against us could result in the incursion of substantial legal fees, potential liabilities and the diversion of management's attention and resources from our business. Moreover, and as noted below, our shares are currently traded on the OTC-BB and, further, are subject to the penny stock regulations. Price fluctuations in such shares are particularly volatile and subject to manipulation by market-makers, short-sellers and option traders.

  • Share Price & Shareholder Rights - Risk 8Added
    A decline in the price of our common stock could affect our ability to raise further working capital, it may adversely impact our ability to continue operations and we may go out of business.

    A prolonged decline in the price of our common stock could result in a reduction in the liquidity of our common stock and a reduction in our ability to raise capital. Because we may attempt to acquire a significant portion of the funds we need in order to conduct our planned operations through the sale of equity securities, or convertible debt instruments, a decline in the price of our common stock could be detrimental to our liquidity and our operations because the decline may cause investors to not choose to invest in our stock. If we are unable to raise the funds we require for all our planned operations, we may be forced to reallocate funds from other planned uses and may suffer a significant negative effect on our business plan and operations, including our ability to develop new products and continue our current operations. As a result, our business may suffer, and not be successful and we may go out of business. We also might not be able to meet our financial obligations if we cannot raise enough funds through the sale of our common stock and we may be forced to go out of business.

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