Aventine Renewable Energy (AVR) brought us a gain of 21.3%. We bought on February 1, 2007, so we owned the stock for 74 days. 365 divided by 74 equals 4.93. 4.93 x 21.3% = 105% annually. Pretty cool.
We have some cash now, so, maybe this one?
PWEagle
Or this one?
LaborReady
Or maybe the company you see by clicking on the title of today's post.
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Monday, April 16, 2007
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
We Sold USPH Yesterday
We decided to take our gain on U.S. Physical Therapy (USPH). We bought on September 13, 2006 and sold on April 9, 2007 for a gain of 20.05%. How many days did we hold it? 30+31+30+31+31+28+31+28(days from March 13th to April 9th) equals 240 days. 365 divided by 240 equals 1.52. 1.52 x 20.05% = 30.48% annualized. As I have mentioned before, I don't know if this is the method the SEC approves of, but it's a basic math problem to me. As long as mistakes aren't made, I believe this formula comes close. I might have to check the math on the post from last week as this multiplier looks familiar.
Interestingly, Zacks has something good to say about USPH.
Click on the title of today's post to view the Google Finance page on USPH.
From the USPH website:
U.S. Physical Therapy, Inc. is the developer and operator of over 250 outpatient physical and occupational therapy clinics nationwide.
Our philosophy is to form a true partnership with therapists who have the skills, relationships, and drive to open their own outpatient therapy clinic. We combine your strengths, clinical skills and physician relationships, with our strengths, financial and operational support, to form a partnership that delivers high-quality care built around your treatment philosophy.
For 15+ years we have partnered with over 200 therapists across the country and helped them reach their dream of owning and operating their own therapy clinic. You have never seen a “U. S. Physical Therapy” clinic because they don’t exist; our clinics are individually named and operated by our partners. Our philosophy is to operate locally with partners who have a vested interest in their clinics success while providing them the support they need in a highly-regulated, competitive and ever-changing health care environment.
Our clinics are built around our partners and their skills and interests. As such, no two clinics are the same. We have clinics that specialize in sports medicine, hand therapy, spine, occupational medicine and some that do general therapy. We have many partners who have one facility and many others with multiple locations. The U.S. Physical Therapy partnership is what we as partners make of it, working together to develop opportunities in your market.
Interestingly, Zacks has something good to say about USPH.
Click on the title of today's post to view the Google Finance page on USPH.
From the USPH website:
U.S. Physical Therapy, Inc. is the developer and operator of over 250 outpatient physical and occupational therapy clinics nationwide.
Our philosophy is to form a true partnership with therapists who have the skills, relationships, and drive to open their own outpatient therapy clinic. We combine your strengths, clinical skills and physician relationships, with our strengths, financial and operational support, to form a partnership that delivers high-quality care built around your treatment philosophy.
For 15+ years we have partnered with over 200 therapists across the country and helped them reach their dream of owning and operating their own therapy clinic. You have never seen a “U. S. Physical Therapy” clinic because they don’t exist; our clinics are individually named and operated by our partners. Our philosophy is to operate locally with partners who have a vested interest in their clinics success while providing them the support they need in a highly-regulated, competitive and ever-changing health care environment.
Our clinics are built around our partners and their skills and interests. As such, no two clinics are the same. We have clinics that specialize in sports medicine, hand therapy, spine, occupational medicine and some that do general therapy. We have many partners who have one facility and many others with multiple locations. The U.S. Physical Therapy partnership is what we as partners make of it, working together to develop opportunities in your market.
Friday, April 06, 2007
One Year At Scottrade
One year ago we bought Timberland (TBL) and the results were unfortunate. If we measure from that day, we achieved 5.27% increase in our total portfolio. Not stellar, but not terrible for our "shakedown cruise". I believe most people of at least average intelligence can do better with stocks than mutual funds. As we progress, I expect we will do that.
The one year mark is not necessarily a true measure for a couple reasons.
1) We deposited only 9.32% of the total funds we would deposit on April 6,2006.
2) We didn't deposit the other 90.68% of our funds until August 22, 2006.
How would we account for this lack of opportunity to invest funds? We could have possibly included the interest earned by the other funds from April 6 to August 22. I prefer to multiply each percentage by the amount of time the funds were available. I don't know if this is the way "they" do it. I am learning and looking for a reasonable method of calculation.
9.32% x 365 days = 34.02 days
90.68% x (7 months & 15 days or 31 days + 30 + 31 +30 + 31 +31 +28 + 15 =) 227 days = 205.84 days
34.02 + 205.84 = 239.86 which rounds up to 240 (days with the ability to invest)
365 days divided by 240 days equals 1.52
1.52 x 5.27 = 8.01
8.01% is closer to the respectable increase for which we are hoping.
Without Timberland we could have been in double digits, just by investing in a stock that broke even. The Google Finance page on TBL is below. In our back office at Scottrade, when I search TBL, they have its S&P ranking listed as 1 star (strong sell). I'm not exactly sure of all the ins and outs, but my guess is that that is not a good sign.
http://finance.google.com/finance?q=tbl
After the remainder of the money was deposited here are the first two posts. The very first post on this blog is quickly available by clicking on the title of today's post.
http://businessownerinvestment.blogspot.com/2006/09/up-day-did-you-think-i-forgot.html
http://businessownerinvestment.blogspot.com/2006/09/we-beat-them-again.html
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The one year mark is not necessarily a true measure for a couple reasons.
1) We deposited only 9.32% of the total funds we would deposit on April 6,2006.
2) We didn't deposit the other 90.68% of our funds until August 22, 2006.
How would we account for this lack of opportunity to invest funds? We could have possibly included the interest earned by the other funds from April 6 to August 22. I prefer to multiply each percentage by the amount of time the funds were available. I don't know if this is the way "they" do it. I am learning and looking for a reasonable method of calculation.
9.32% x 365 days = 34.02 days
90.68% x (7 months & 15 days or 31 days + 30 + 31 +30 + 31 +31 +28 + 15 =) 227 days = 205.84 days
34.02 + 205.84 = 239.86 which rounds up to 240 (days with the ability to invest)
365 days divided by 240 days equals 1.52
1.52 x 5.27 = 8.01
8.01% is closer to the respectable increase for which we are hoping.
Without Timberland we could have been in double digits, just by investing in a stock that broke even. The Google Finance page on TBL is below. In our back office at Scottrade, when I search TBL, they have its S&P ranking listed as 1 star (strong sell). I'm not exactly sure of all the ins and outs, but my guess is that that is not a good sign.
http://finance.google.com/finance?q=tbl
After the remainder of the money was deposited here are the first two posts. The very first post on this blog is quickly available by clicking on the title of today's post.
http://businessownerinvestment.blogspot.com/2006/09/up-day-did-you-think-i-forgot.html
http://businessownerinvestment.blogspot.com/2006/09/we-beat-them-again.html
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Wednesday, March 28, 2007
We Bought OPMR Earlier Today
We bought Optimal Group (OPMR) less than an hour ago. According to their website,
"Optimal Group Inc. is a leading payments and services company with operations throughout North America and the United Kingdom. "
Let's see if this one does better than our average holding.
Click on the title of today's post to see the Google Finance page on Optimal Group.
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"Optimal Group Inc. is a leading payments and services company with operations throughout North America and the United Kingdom. "
Let's see if this one does better than our average holding.
Click on the title of today's post to see the Google Finance page on Optimal Group.
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Monday, March 26, 2007
3 Star Winners & 1 Not So Much
First the bad news
The McClatchy Co. (MNI) down 1.60%
Now, we have three stocks up over 2% today.
Aventine Renewable Energy (AVR) up 2.61%
Candela (CLZR) up 3.65%
Value Line (VALU) up 4.30%
Click on the title of today's post for the most recent article I've seen about AVR.
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The McClatchy Co. (MNI) down 1.60%
Now, we have three stocks up over 2% today.
Aventine Renewable Energy (AVR) up 2.61%
Candela (CLZR) up 3.65%
Value Line (VALU) up 4.30%
Click on the title of today's post for the most recent article I've seen about AVR.
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We Finally Took The Hit With TBL
We started this experiment April 6, 2006 and now we have faced the music with Timberland (TBL), the first stock we bought. We sold it for a loss of 24.55% less than half and hour ago and it's currently trading below the price we got for it.
Click on the title of today's post for the Google Finance TBL page or click below for Bloomberg's.
Bloomberg TBL page
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Click on the title of today's post for the Google Finance TBL page or click below for Bloomberg's.
Bloomberg TBL page
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Wednesday, March 21, 2007
AVR The Star Winner Again
Wow. Two great days in a row preceded by a good day. For a couple weeks there, things weren't looking so good, so this is definitely a much needed change.
Aventine Renewable Energy (AVR) is the Star Winner two days in a row. All of these stocks were up more than 2% today.
VCI up 2.36%
EGY up 2.41%
Candela (CLZR) up 2.42%
IUSA up 4.43%
AVR up 5.73%
Click on the title of today's post to see who was bubbling under a 2% gain.
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Aventine Renewable Energy (AVR) is the Star Winner two days in a row. All of these stocks were up more than 2% today.
VCI up 2.36%
EGY up 2.41%
Candela (CLZR) up 2.42%
IUSA up 4.43%
AVR up 5.73%
Click on the title of today's post to see who was bubbling under a 2% gain.
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Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Our Big Winners Starring AVR
Just in case someone thinks I'm a Pollyanna, click on the title of today's post to see what I assume is bad news about one of our stocks. Then, take a look at the winners.
I really like when a stock has more than a 2% gain in a day. I know that daily isn't usually that important unless you're a day trader, but it can be fun.
Because this is my first Big Winners post, I'm going to let InfoUSA slide in. You might remember that their Super Bowl commercial was possibly the only one that made money for the company, but many people who are not part of their target market didn't get it. I'm sure not reaching the people that they weren't trying to reach while getting their message across to likely customers is no skin off their nose. Just because many Super Bowl commercial watchers prefer entertainment and laughter doesn't mean those commercials actually achieved more sales. I still remember years ago when a guy I know thought that a car commercial was really dumb. I tried to tell him that Cadillac definitely wasn't aiming for him, but to no avail.
So, starting us off is InfoUSA (IUSA) with an uptick of 1.94% - almost 2% territory. Next is Vaalco Energy (EGY) - up 2.05%. Jackson Hewitt Tax Service (JTX) was up 3.10% today. Valassis Communications (VCI) - up 4.45%. And, today's star of our portfolio...
Aventine Renewable Energy! (AVR) up 6.42%.
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I really like when a stock has more than a 2% gain in a day. I know that daily isn't usually that important unless you're a day trader, but it can be fun.
Because this is my first Big Winners post, I'm going to let InfoUSA slide in. You might remember that their Super Bowl commercial was possibly the only one that made money for the company, but many people who are not part of their target market didn't get it. I'm sure not reaching the people that they weren't trying to reach while getting their message across to likely customers is no skin off their nose. Just because many Super Bowl commercial watchers prefer entertainment and laughter doesn't mean those commercials actually achieved more sales. I still remember years ago when a guy I know thought that a car commercial was really dumb. I tried to tell him that Cadillac definitely wasn't aiming for him, but to no avail.
So, starting us off is InfoUSA (IUSA) with an uptick of 1.94% - almost 2% territory. Next is Vaalco Energy (EGY) - up 2.05%. Jackson Hewitt Tax Service (JTX) was up 3.10% today. Valassis Communications (VCI) - up 4.45%. And, today's star of our portfolio...
Aventine Renewable Energy! (AVR) up 6.42%.
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Monday, March 19, 2007
McClatchy Has The Time?
As in my previous post, I'm wondering about the time involved in making this latest news payoff.
The Sacramento Business Journal reported that McClatchy signed on with Corzen to better keep track of external market conditions that may affect revenue and expenses. The McClatchy Co. (MNI) owns CareerBuilder as well as The Sacramento Bee and The Miami Herald. We currently own McClatchy.
http://www.mcclatchy.com/
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For those of you who have teenagers you would like to see graduate from college or university, I started a new blog with them in mind - Fgyp, pronounced Fuh-GIPE - For Great Young People.
http://fgyp.blogspot.com/
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The Sacramento Business Journal reported that McClatchy signed on with Corzen to better keep track of external market conditions that may affect revenue and expenses. The McClatchy Co. (MNI) owns CareerBuilder as well as The Sacramento Bee and The Miami Herald. We currently own McClatchy.
http://www.mcclatchy.com/
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For those of you who have teenagers you would like to see graduate from college or university, I started a new blog with them in mind - Fgyp, pronounced Fuh-GIPE - For Great Young People.
http://fgyp.blogspot.com/
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If He Has The Time, Doctor, If He Has The Time
I'm a Star Trek fan from way back. I may be both a Trekkie and a Trekker in denial. I've never given myself those tags, but some people who are not fans think I know a lot about Star Trek.
Candela's progress reminds me of a scene in an episode ["Arena"] with Captain Kirk trying to outwit a reptilian creature called a Gorn. The advanced aliens [I was thinking Leptons, but Wikipedia assures me that they are Metrons.] that placed these two combatants on the same planet assured them that the raw materials to destroy their opponent and achieve victory for themselves and their crew exist on that planet.
While Mr. Spock and Dr. McCoy watch helplessly on the ship's viewscreen, they notice that the components for gunpowder and many other minerals are plentiful if Captain Kirk can put the clues together. He does finally realize what he's got, but he's slowed by an injury caused by an opponent. After Kirk gathers diamonds and ingredients to make gunpowder, he has to build a primitive cannon to blast the thick hide of his opponent. Meanwhile, the extra strong Gorn gets closer and closer, moving in for the kill. As his shipmates watch from space, McCoy says something positive about Kirk figuring out the problem and being able to finish the task and save himself and the crew. Spock replies with what I guess is one of the top 20 lines remembered by fans of the original Star Trek series:
IF HE HAS THE TIME, DOCTOR, IF HE HAS THE TIME.
Candela made an acquisition recently which you can read by following the link below. Motley Fool seems to think that they are behind, but all is not lost. Read the Motley Fool article by clicking on the title of today's post.
Candela's symbol is CLZR and as of Friday's close, our holding is down 5.75%.
Will Candela achieve victory for themselves and their crew (shareholders)?
If he has the time indeed...
http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=1000191537&fid=942
As for my "Trekkiness" I did have to visit Google and Wikipedia to find some of the Star Trek information like "Arena" as the name of the episode and a couple other bits, but I admit that that quote is emblazoned in my memory forever. Visit the TinyURL/Wikipedia link below to read more:
http://preview.tinyurl.com/ytp4wt
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Candela's progress reminds me of a scene in an episode ["Arena"] with Captain Kirk trying to outwit a reptilian creature called a Gorn. The advanced aliens [I was thinking Leptons, but Wikipedia assures me that they are Metrons.] that placed these two combatants on the same planet assured them that the raw materials to destroy their opponent and achieve victory for themselves and their crew exist on that planet.
While Mr. Spock and Dr. McCoy watch helplessly on the ship's viewscreen, they notice that the components for gunpowder and many other minerals are plentiful if Captain Kirk can put the clues together. He does finally realize what he's got, but he's slowed by an injury caused by an opponent. After Kirk gathers diamonds and ingredients to make gunpowder, he has to build a primitive cannon to blast the thick hide of his opponent. Meanwhile, the extra strong Gorn gets closer and closer, moving in for the kill. As his shipmates watch from space, McCoy says something positive about Kirk figuring out the problem and being able to finish the task and save himself and the crew. Spock replies with what I guess is one of the top 20 lines remembered by fans of the original Star Trek series:
IF HE HAS THE TIME, DOCTOR, IF HE HAS THE TIME.
Candela made an acquisition recently which you can read by following the link below. Motley Fool seems to think that they are behind, but all is not lost. Read the Motley Fool article by clicking on the title of today's post.
Candela's symbol is CLZR and as of Friday's close, our holding is down 5.75%.
Will Candela achieve victory for themselves and their crew (shareholders)?
If he has the time indeed...
http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=1000191537&fid=942
As for my "Trekkiness" I did have to visit Google and Wikipedia to find some of the Star Trek information like "Arena" as the name of the episode and a couple other bits, but I admit that that quote is emblazoned in my memory forever. Visit the TinyURL/Wikipedia link below to read more:
http://preview.tinyurl.com/ytp4wt
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Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Just Got Back From Fran Cannon's Seminar
Get some real learning from the seminar this Saturday. I did. Met some great people. Valuable contacts. I even met a real estate agent, Suzanne Beckstrom, in person for the first time after speaking on the phone and emailing back and forth for the last year. Go! Meet some people. Read the previous post[BELOW] for more information. Help each other build your business! Here's Suzanne's site-
http://www.suzannebeckstrom.com/
Click on the title of today's post to see some video of another great seminar teacher, Marshall Rosenberg. See you Saturday.
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http://www.suzannebeckstrom.com/
Click on the title of today's post to see some video of another great seminar teacher, Marshall Rosenberg. See you Saturday.
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Sunday, March 04, 2007
Asking, Negotiating And Agreements Seminar
Asking, Negotiating and Agreements Seminar
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Thursday, February 15, 2007
Server Unavailable
Server Unavailable
That's the message I got more than once today from Myspace. Hopefully this answers any questions about why I still blog at blogspot.com. I got that message in the middle of creating a post and lost that post. I was actually saving the "draft" before I finalized it. When I save a draft at blogspot, at least I have the draft if something goes wrong, which happens a lot less than it used to happen. By the way, something similar occurred when I was first writing this explanation at Myspace. So, they lost my stuff twice. Good site, needs work with respect to blogging. Will this matter to the stock price of their parent company?
Click on the tile of today's post to see a good book.
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Oh, spend some time enjoying Natalie Merchant's music:
http://www.nataliemerchant.com/
That's the message I got more than once today from Myspace. Hopefully this answers any questions about why I still blog at blogspot.com. I got that message in the middle of creating a post and lost that post. I was actually saving the "draft" before I finalized it. When I save a draft at blogspot, at least I have the draft if something goes wrong, which happens a lot less than it used to happen. By the way, something similar occurred when I was first writing this explanation at Myspace. So, they lost my stuff twice. Good site, needs work with respect to blogging. Will this matter to the stock price of their parent company?
Click on the tile of today's post to see a good book.
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Oh, spend some time enjoying Natalie Merchant's music:
http://www.nataliemerchant.com/
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
We Sold BLDR & Bought VALU
I locked up more profit yesterday. We would still buy BLDR if we were starting today. One thing for sure, watching CNBC is not the same as watching the market with your money in it. That's a good reason to have good reasons for what you do, no matter what strategy you choose.
We made 18.49% from August 31st, 2006 to February 12, 2007. August has 31 days, but since we are starting on the 31st, we notice that 30 days later is September 30th which has only 30 days. 30 + 31 + 30 + 31 +31 +12 days in February equals 165 days. 365 divided by 165 equals 2.21. 2.21 times 18.49% equals 40.86% annualized. That's nice.
Here's the BLDR summary from Finance.Google.com:
Builders FirstSource, Inc. is a supplier and a fast-growing manufacturer of structural and related building products for residential new construction in the United States. The products offered include its factory-built roof and floor trusses, wall panels and stairs, as well as engineered wood products. It also manufactures custom millwork and trim that it markets under the Synboard brand name. In addition, it supplies customers with an offering of professional grade building products, such as dimensional lumber and lumber sheet goods, various window, door and millwork lines, as well as cabinets, roofing and gypsum wallboard. The building products and services are grouped into five product categories: prefabricated components, windows & doors, lumber & lumber sheet goods, millwork, and other building products & services. Its full range of construction-related services includes professional installation, turn-key framing and shell construction, and spans all its product categories.
Summary For VALU:
Value Line, Inc. is engaged in producing investment-related periodical publications through its wholly owned subsidiary, Value Line Publishing, Inc. (VLP), and providing investment advisory services to mutual funds, institutions and individual clients. VLP publishes in both print and electronic formats The Value Line Investment Survey, a periodical investment services, as well as The Value Line Investment Survey - Small and Mid-Cap Edition, The Value Line 600, Value Line Select, The Value Line Mutual Fund Survey, The Value Line No-Load Fund Advisor, The Value Line Special Situations Service, The Value Line Options Survey and The Value Line Convertibles Survey. VLP also provides current and historical financial databases in standard computer formats and markets investment analysis software, The Value Line Investment Analyzer, Value Line ETF Survey, Mutual Fund Survey for Windows, Value Line Daily Options Survey, Value Line Electronic Convertibles and Value Line Research Center.
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We made 18.49% from August 31st, 2006 to February 12, 2007. August has 31 days, but since we are starting on the 31st, we notice that 30 days later is September 30th which has only 30 days. 30 + 31 + 30 + 31 +31 +12 days in February equals 165 days. 365 divided by 165 equals 2.21. 2.21 times 18.49% equals 40.86% annualized. That's nice.
Here's the BLDR summary from Finance.Google.com:
Builders FirstSource, Inc. is a supplier and a fast-growing manufacturer of structural and related building products for residential new construction in the United States. The products offered include its factory-built roof and floor trusses, wall panels and stairs, as well as engineered wood products. It also manufactures custom millwork and trim that it markets under the Synboard brand name. In addition, it supplies customers with an offering of professional grade building products, such as dimensional lumber and lumber sheet goods, various window, door and millwork lines, as well as cabinets, roofing and gypsum wallboard. The building products and services are grouped into five product categories: prefabricated components, windows & doors, lumber & lumber sheet goods, millwork, and other building products & services. Its full range of construction-related services includes professional installation, turn-key framing and shell construction, and spans all its product categories.
Summary For VALU:
Value Line, Inc. is engaged in producing investment-related periodical publications through its wholly owned subsidiary, Value Line Publishing, Inc. (VLP), and providing investment advisory services to mutual funds, institutions and individual clients. VLP publishes in both print and electronic formats The Value Line Investment Survey, a periodical investment services, as well as The Value Line Investment Survey - Small and Mid-Cap Edition, The Value Line 600, Value Line Select, The Value Line Mutual Fund Survey, The Value Line No-Load Fund Advisor, The Value Line Special Situations Service, The Value Line Options Survey and The Value Line Convertibles Survey. VLP also provides current and historical financial databases in standard computer formats and markets investment analysis software, The Value Line Investment Analyzer, Value Line ETF Survey, Mutual Fund Survey for Windows, Value Line Daily Options Survey, Value Line Electronic Convertibles and Value Line Research Center.
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Thursday, February 08, 2007
Pacer Downside Surprise
I was just thinking how Pacer Global Logistics (PACR) has steadily risen since we bought it early September. No huge gains in single days or weeks. No huge swings. Just a hard working stock. Logistics is not an exciting enterprise to most people, yet profit is there for the diligent. Then today. If the opening holds, we'll lose around 75% of our gains today. Whew. Pacer still makes the list of stocks we would buy today. A couple analysts downgraded the stock.
Below you'll find links to Yahoo's Upgrades and Downgrades History for Pacer as well as the Pacer Global Logistics homepage. Click on the title of today's post to see the Wikipedia entry for Logistics.
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ud?s=PACR
http://www.pacerglobal.com/
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Below you'll find links to Yahoo's Upgrades and Downgrades History for Pacer as well as the Pacer Global Logistics homepage. Click on the title of today's post to see the Wikipedia entry for Logistics.
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ud?s=PACR
http://www.pacerglobal.com/
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Monday, February 05, 2007
Timberland Looks Like A Great Place To Work
Timberland (TBL) gives employees the opportunity to volunteer and get paid for it. If you check out their benefits page, you might want to apply to work there. Check it out by clicking on the title of today's post.
We bought Timberland in April and the stock took a dive within weeks as did the rest of the market, except we're still down almost 12% in this stock. We're grateful to be there compared to where the stock was, and I'm guessing that we have a 75% chance of selling it for a loss in a couple months. We'll see...
I want to urge those who haven't joined the music technology revolution to buy a Zune. I'm enjoying the heck out of it. The Blasters sound great on my computer right now [!] and so does Mozart, Talking Heads, The Jam and The Clash and Lone Justice and Oingo Boingo and Beethoven and Johnny Cash and Social Distortion, Wall of Voodoo, Norah Jones, X, Roger Miller, various composers, Los Lobos, George Winston, Jon Anderson...it's truly fun to keep saying, "Oh, yeah. I almost forgot about them!' And it only crashes as often as other Microsoft stuff.
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We bought Timberland in April and the stock took a dive within weeks as did the rest of the market, except we're still down almost 12% in this stock. We're grateful to be there compared to where the stock was, and I'm guessing that we have a 75% chance of selling it for a loss in a couple months. We'll see...
I want to urge those who haven't joined the music technology revolution to buy a Zune. I'm enjoying the heck out of it. The Blasters sound great on my computer right now [!] and so does Mozart, Talking Heads, The Jam and The Clash and Lone Justice and Oingo Boingo and Beethoven and Johnny Cash and Social Distortion, Wall of Voodoo, Norah Jones, X, Roger Miller, various composers, Los Lobos, George Winston, Jon Anderson...it's truly fun to keep saying, "Oh, yeah. I almost forgot about them!' And it only crashes as often as other Microsoft stuff.
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Friday, February 02, 2007
Checking On Nathan's Famous A Bit
I wrote a bit about NathansFamous.com at Helium. Lots of people have loved their food for a long time. It's not a deep examination, just a cursory glance.
http://www.helium.com/tm/128085
Thanks to Paul in Carlsbad, California for mentioning that you cannot view the portfolios I created on Google. I'm looking into a solution.
Click on the title of today's post to visit a financial website.
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http://www.helium.com/tm/128085
Thanks to Paul in Carlsbad, California for mentioning that you cannot view the portfolios I created on Google. I'm looking into a solution.
Click on the title of today's post to visit a financial website.
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I'm Puzzled By IUSA Investors
Click on the title of today's post for the InfoUSA report titled:
infoUSA Reports Record Fourth Quarterand FY2006 Results
I'll be conservative and say that this report looks very good to me. I have not been over it with a fine tooth comb, but what I have read tells me a great story. Maybe things will change after the call. This is from the report:
The Company will host its fourth quarter conference call on February 2, 2007 at 4:00 pm Eastern time. To access the conference call, please dial 800-901-5231 (international 617-786-2961), passcode 12202388, approximately 10 minutes prior to the start of the call. A replay of the call will be available from 7:00 pm Eastern time, February 2, 2007 through midnight Eastern Time, February 9, 2007. The replay number is 888-286-8010 (international 617-801-6888), passcode 19850423. A live webcast of the conference call will be available at the Company’s Investor Relations web site, http://ir.infousa.com.
As of this minute, IUSA is down 14%. I'm still puzzled.
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infoUSA Reports Record Fourth Quarterand FY2006 Results
I'll be conservative and say that this report looks very good to me. I have not been over it with a fine tooth comb, but what I have read tells me a great story. Maybe things will change after the call. This is from the report:
The Company will host its fourth quarter conference call on February 2, 2007 at 4:00 pm Eastern time. To access the conference call, please dial 800-901-5231 (international 617-786-2961), passcode 12202388, approximately 10 minutes prior to the start of the call. A replay of the call will be available from 7:00 pm Eastern time, February 2, 2007 through midnight Eastern Time, February 9, 2007. The replay number is 888-286-8010 (international 617-801-6888), passcode 19850423. A live webcast of the conference call will be available at the Company’s Investor Relations web site, http://ir.infousa.com.
As of this minute, IUSA is down 14%. I'm still puzzled.
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Thursday, February 01, 2007
Will The Super Bowl Help InfoUSA?
I know that some people make up scenarios to illustrate a point, but this actually happened to me a few minutes ago. I got the mail and noticed that an envelope addressed to me and Cannon Business Institute said "See our Super Bowl Commercial February 4, 2007 YES! It's true...we will be on the Super Bowl. Special Offer Inside. SNEAK PREVIEW - Salesgenie.com/tv".
I thought I recognized Salesgenie.com and when I looked it up I found that I was right. Salesgenie.com is part of InfoUSA (IUSA) and we own the stock and it's currently up around 40% for us. Click on the title of today's post to visit InfoUSA.com or click below for the site on the envelope in my mailbox.
http://www.Salesgenie.com/tv
There's a brief preview of the commercial that they are broadcasting during the Super Bowl. I think this will help the stock a lot. However, I just saw a report today on how overpriced Super Bowl commercial time is given the alternatives like the internet. With InfoUSA using snail mail, the internet and television combined, maybe this will be huge for them. I wouldn't mind if the stock went up another 40%.
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I thought I recognized Salesgenie.com and when I looked it up I found that I was right. Salesgenie.com is part of InfoUSA (IUSA) and we own the stock and it's currently up around 40% for us. Click on the title of today's post to visit InfoUSA.com or click below for the site on the envelope in my mailbox.
http://www.Salesgenie.com/tv
There's a brief preview of the commercial that they are broadcasting during the Super Bowl. I think this will help the stock a lot. However, I just saw a report today on how overpriced Super Bowl commercial time is given the alternatives like the internet. With InfoUSA using snail mail, the internet and television combined, maybe this will be huge for them. I wouldn't mind if the stock went up another 40%.
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We Sold CECO And Bought AVR
I decided to take some profits yesterday by selling Career Education Corporation (CECO) for a 50.8% return and this morning we bought Aventine Renewable Energy Holdings (AVR) with a majority of the proceeds. We bought on August 29th, 2006 and sold on January 31st, 2007.
August has 31 days, September 30, October 31, November 30, December 31, so 31 + 30 + 31 + 30 + 31 = 153 plus 2 days from the 29th of January to the 31st is 155 days. 365 days divided by 155 days equals 2.3548. I included the extra digits for the real sticklers. 2.3548 times 50.8 equals an annual rate of return of 119.6238%. Really, really cool return.
By the way, it's possible that I'm making some kind of obvious mistake and people who calculate this sort of thing all the time could catch it. I'm open to someone correcting me here. I enjoy math and created this scheme of calculation on my own.
Also, I don't have anything against Career Education Corporation. I have seen a few of our stocks up by 30 or 40% or more and then fall back dramatically. I just wanted to take some profits and reinvest some of the profits in something else. If we were starting today, we might choose CECO. Amazingly, it still fits the criteria after its recent runup.
Click on the title of today's post to view the Career Education graph at Google Finance. Click below to view the Aventine Renewable Energy Holdings graph.
http://finance.google.com/finance?q=avr
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August has 31 days, September 30, October 31, November 30, December 31, so 31 + 30 + 31 + 30 + 31 = 153 plus 2 days from the 29th of January to the 31st is 155 days. 365 days divided by 155 days equals 2.3548. I included the extra digits for the real sticklers. 2.3548 times 50.8 equals an annual rate of return of 119.6238%. Really, really cool return.
By the way, it's possible that I'm making some kind of obvious mistake and people who calculate this sort of thing all the time could catch it. I'm open to someone correcting me here. I enjoy math and created this scheme of calculation on my own.
Also, I don't have anything against Career Education Corporation. I have seen a few of our stocks up by 30 or 40% or more and then fall back dramatically. I just wanted to take some profits and reinvest some of the profits in something else. If we were starting today, we might choose CECO. Amazingly, it still fits the criteria after its recent runup.
Click on the title of today's post to view the Career Education graph at Google Finance. Click below to view the Aventine Renewable Energy Holdings graph.
http://finance.google.com/finance?q=avr
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