The financial statements of publically traded compananies usually list all sorts of risks that could occur. POET Technologies is no exception to the rule. However, what is never stated is the probability or likelihood of a certain event posing a risk to actually occur.

And that's the really interesting question: What's the probability of, say, another PO to happen? For sure it is larger than 0 ("will never happen") and smaller than 1 ("will definitely happen"), but it makes a big difference if you think it is 0.1 versus, say, 0.5 or 0.9.

So whether we a talking about PO, RS, natural disaster, or whatever: The point is not whether such events may occur or not, but what their respective probabilities are.