Company Analysis
The Future of the Internet
Forgive me for straying a bit from the usual very stock investing centric topics on this site and spending a bit more time thinking about the proposed Microsoft-Yahoo merger. (Or, possibly the rekindled Yahoo/Google partnership.) As a Google shareholder, web development enthusiast, and an engineering student, any proposed shakeup of the Internet is very interesting [...]
read more »A Terrific Technical Analysis Article
I came across this article today, An Unsettling Chart Pattern May Be Taking Shape and thought it’d be great to share. It echoes my allusion to the potential for a stock market correction in the near future as mentioned in my post on getting ready to trade PJC but with more of a solid explanation. [...]
read more »Share Buybacks and Shareholder Value
I just read a very good article on the use of share buybacks by companies in order to boost earnings per share and as a result bring value to shareholders. Check out PeridotCapitalist.com‘s Chad Brand’s piece on Share Buybacks. In the blog post, he is refuting the critics of AutoZone’s (AZO) current reliance on share [...]
read more »A Look at Southwest
I realized after posting yesterday that the move to get out of Cosi might seem rather odd without a corresponding move to get out of Southwest Airlines in my other portfolio given that both have performed so poorly. As such, I thought it’d be a good time to get some thoughts down about Southwest Airlines [...]
read more »Cosi out / China Mobile in
Originally Posted May 17, 2007 Well, it seems that waiting for Cosi’s quarterly earnings report was less than a great idea. Maybe, I should have listened to the so called “whisper numbers” in the days leading up to the report when the stock dropped from 6.00 to 5.00. Instead, for one reason or another, I [...]
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