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  • Mueller Water Products "A" Shares and "B" Shares are Mispriced
    An article discussing the price difference between Mueller Water Products (MWA) "A" shares and "B" shares. The shares are identical except that each A share has 1 vote and each B share has 8 votes. Right now, the B shares are selling for $0.34 a share less than the A shares despite having eight times the voting power (A shares: $13.98; B shares: $13.64)

    Date of Article: 09Apr2007
    Category: Finance & Investment
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  • Topps to be Acquired by Eisner and Others
    Topps, the maker of trading cards and Bazooka Gum, has agreed to be acquired by Michael Eisner and others for $9.25 a share in cash in a transaction valued at $385.4 million. Eisner, the former CEO of Disney, founded the privately held Tornante Company in 2005 to make transactions such as this one.
    Date of Article: 07Mar2007
    Category: Finance & Investment
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  • Traffic at uTube.com Surges 440%
    A silly story about how a 440% jump in traffic at uTube.com paralyzed that company's site. Apparently, millions of people confused uTube.com, a site operated by Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment Corporation, with YouTube.com, a site recently acquired by Google (GOOG) for $1.65 billion in stock.
    Date of Article: 19Oct2006
    Category: Internet Marketing/Online Business
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  • Dow Flirts With New High Six Years On
    As the Dow flirts with a new high (and the financial media tests everyone's patience), it's worth remembering how far the average investor has fallen and why.
    Date of Article: 30Sep2006
    Category: Finance & Investment
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  • Friendly's CEO Resigns; Largest Shareholder Requests Seats
    On Thursday, Friendly Ice Cream (FRN) announced its CEO, John Cutter, had resigned. It was not immediately clear whether he had been forced out or left voluntarily. Friendly's largest shareholders, Sardar Biglari, has requested two board seats. Biglari, a value investor in the vein of Buffett, runs a hedge fund called "The Lion Fund" and serves as Chairman of Western Sizzlin (WSZL).
    Date of Article: 29Sep2006
    Category: Finance & Investment
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  • The Human Index
    A short article discussing the arbitrary and "human" nature of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Looks at the last Dow reshuffle (2004) and the six companies involved: Verizon (VZ), AIG (AIG), Pfizer (PFE), Eastman Kodak (EK), International Paper (IP), and AT&T (T).
    Date of Article: 28Sep2006
    Category: Finance & Investment
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  • An Analysis of Nintendo (NTDOY)
    A value investor analyzes Nintendo (NTDOY) from both a qualitative and quantitative perspective to determine if the current stock price is attractive.
    Date of Article: 14Sep2006
    Category: Finance & Investment
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  • Sony Delays PlayStation 3
    "As a result of problems related to the mass production of a key component of its Blu-ray DVD player, Sony (SNE) will delay the European launch of its next generation video game console, the PlayStation 3 (PS3). Sony will also reduce the number of PS3 units immediately available in both the U.S. and Japan." This article examines what that new might mean for the PS3's future.
    Date of Article: 09Sep2006
    Category: Finance & Investment
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  • Sumner Redstone Fires Viacom CEO Tom Freston
    On Monday, Sumner Redstone fired Viacom's CEO, Tom Freston. This article looks at the firing and what it means for Viacom. Is Redstone reasserting his control over the cable properties once buried within the larger corporate behemoth that was Viacom (which then included CBS)? Where will the two new men at the top, Dauman and Dooley, take the company?
    Date of Article: 07Sep2006
    Category: Finance & Investment
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  • The Importance of Maintenance Cap-Ex
    A value investor discusses the importance of maintenance cap-ex. GAAP accounting is compared to economic realities. The article focuses on how investors can find bargain stocks by looking at capital spending.
    Date of Article: 14Jun2006
    Category: Finance & Investment
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  • An Analysis of Wells Fargo & Company (WFC)
    A value investor analyzes Wells Fargo & Company (WFC) from both a qualitative and quantitative perspective to determine if the current stock price is attractive.
    Date of Article: 31May2006
    Category: Finance & Investment
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  • Cedar Fair to Buy Paramount Parks
    Publicly traded limited partnership Cedar Fair (FUN) will acquire the Paramount Parks business of CBS Corp (CBS) for approximately $1.25 billion.
    Date of Article: 24May2006
    Category: Finance & Investment
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  • On Microsoft (MSFT)
    A value investor discusses Microsoft (MSFT). The focus is long-term. Areas for possible future growth such as search and video games are discussed.
    Date of Article: 20May2006
    Category: Finance & Investment
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  • On Banks
    A discussion of competitive advantages in the banking industry. This article was inspired by a Morningstar articles asking "Do All Banks Have Moats". Several different reasons are discussed explaining why these "moats" exist.
    Date of Article: 17May2006
    Category: Finance & Investment
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  • The Danger of Inflexible Enterprises
    A value investor discusses the risk involved in buying stock in an inflexible enterprise. He uses several examples of large corporations and the problems they have encountered in recent years to illustrate his point.
    Date of Article: 25Apr2006
    Category: Finance & Investment
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  • Mismanagement at The New York Times
    A value investor discusses the recent vote of no confidence by The New York Times Company's major shareholders. He then asks if the stock is now a bargain.
    Date of Article: 21Apr2006
    Category: Finance & Investment
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  • Stocks Look Pricey
    A value investor looks at stock prices and finds them to be rather high at the end of the first quarter of 2006.
    Date of Article: 10Apr2006
    Category: Finance & Investment
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  • Buffett's Big Bet
    A value investor looks at a big bet made by Warren Buffett and disclosed in Berkshire Hathaway's most recent annual report. His conclusion: Buffett's bet isn't as bullish as it appears.
    Date of Article: 08Apr2006
    Category: Finance & Investment
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  • What is Value Investing?
    A value investor looks at what value investing is and isn't. He contrasts value investing with other forms of investing such as growth investing and contrarian investing.
    Date of Article: 18Mar2006
    Category: Finance & Investment
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  • An Analysis of Pacific Sunwear (PSUN)
    A value investor analyzes Pacific Sunwear (PSUN) on both qualitative and quantitative grounds to determine if its current price makes the stock a bargain.
    Date of Article: 10Mar2006
    Category: Finance & Investment
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  • An Analysis of Energizer Holdings (ENR)
    A value investor analyzes Energizer Holdings (ENR) on both qualitative and quantitative grounds to determine if its current price makes the stock a bargain.
    Date of Article: 02Feb2006
    Category: Finance & Investment
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  • An Analysis of Overstock.com (OSTK)
    A value investor analyzes Overstock.com (OSTK) on both qualitative and quantitative grounds to determine if its current price makes the stock a bargain.
    Date of Article: 26Jan2006
    Category: Finance & Investment
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  • An Analysis of Lexmark (LXK)
    A value investor analyzes Lexmark (LXK) on both qualitative and quantitative grounds to determine if its current price makes the stock a bargain.
    Date of Article: 24Jan2006
    Category: Finance & Investment
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  • Is There Really a Magic Formula for Investing?
    This article looks at investing formulas proposed by three men: Benjamin Graham, David Dreman, and Joel Greenblatt. It then asks whether any of these formulas will lead to above market returns.
    Date of Article: 20Jan2006
    Category: Finance & Investment
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