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- A Lesson in Portfolio Construction: “One Good Icahn Energy Bet Undoes Several Years of Bad Calls” – Bloomberg @BusinessOil’s crash would have been every bit as cruel to Carl Icahn as it was to other investors, except the billionaire had a very important ace in the hole: a little-known refiner an…
- Perion Network Ltd. ($PERI): Cheap, cash rich, and generating cashBig changes in the composition of the screeners this week, giving us lots of exciting new stocks to dig into. While the indexes only declined a few points, under the surface the…
- The Icahn StrategyFrom Icahn Enterprises L.P. December 2013 Investor Presentation: Across all of our businesses, our success is based on a simple formula: we seek to find undervalued companies in…
- Valero Energy Corporation ($VLO): Cheap, safe and runningValero Energy Corporation ($VLO), which at one point was the cheapest stock in the Large Cap 1000 Screener and the All Investable Screener, is having a blockbuster year, up 33 p…
- Movado Group, Inc. ($MOV): Cheap, safe and buying back stockIt’s no secret why Movado Group, Inc. ($MOV) is in the bargain bin. Investors fear that the beast of 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino–Apple, Inc.–has done for watches what it did for …
- AVX Corporation ($AVX): Cheap, safe, dividend payer at an historically high yieldAVX Corporation (NYSE:AVX) is another unusually cheap stock in the All Investable Screener. At $13.36, it has a market capitalization of $2.2 billion, and with net cash of $844 …
- Newpark Resources Inc. ($NR): Possible takeover candidateNewpark Resources Inc. ($NR) has been beaten up along with the rest of the oil and gas service industry, and it’s starting to look decidedly cheap. At its $7.21 close yesterday,…
- Changes to the Screeners’ OutputI’ve retooled the screeners to add some new information at the request of some users. In addition to the acquirer’s multiple and its components–enterprise value and operating ea…
- Net 1 UEPS Technologies, Inc. ($UEPS): Cheap, and fundamentally strongNet 1 UEPS Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:UEPS) has been running hard in 2015, up 69 percent since the start of the year, and up 13 percent since I wrote about it on June 10. It’s g…
- Last chance to take advantage of extended offer: One month trial of The Acquirer’s Multiple for 9 bucks (save $40)I’ve had a few requests to extend this weekend’s special offer, so I’m going to keep it going to 5pmPDT this afternoon. Click here to subscribe to the Acquirer’s Multiple and pa…
- Alaska Air Group ($ALK) is well run and cheapLots of value investors find their own personal Waterloo in airline stocks (Buffett famously dumps money in the sector every decade or so). That might make the industry sound li…
- Subscribe to The Acquirer’s Multiple and pay only 9 bones for the first month (Expires midnight tonight)For this weekend only, click here to subscribe to the Acquirer’s Multiple and pay only 9 for the first month (usually $49). In addition to the free Large Cap 1000 screen, get ex…
- What happens to value in sideways markets: Shiller PE and expected returns using Hussman’s methodRobert Shiller’s cyclically adjusted price earnings (CAPE) ratio takes a 10-year inflation-adjusted average of the S&P500’s earnings to arrive at a price/earnings metric smoothe…
- Special offer this weekend only: One month trial of The Acquirer’s Multiple for 9 bucks (Save $40)For this weekend only, click here to subscribe to the Acquirer’s Multiple and pay only 9 for the first month (usually $49). In addition to the free Large Cap 1000 screen, get ex…
- RPX Corp: Unusually cheap stock with an unusual business modelRPX Corp is an unusually cheap stock with an unusual business model. With an $888 million market cap, and $376 million in net cash, RPXC has an enterprise value of $512 million,…
- NevSun Resources ($NSU): Arguably the best base metals miner in the world.Nevsun Resources (USA) has taken a beating recently, down 17 percent from its June high of $4.26. It remains the cheapest stock in the All Investable universe. Chief Development…
- S&P500 enterprise multiple 1990 to dateI like to check in occasionally to see where the S&P500’s average enterprise multiple stands. Right now it’s trading on just over 12x, where it’s been since the start of the yea…
- CNBC’s 9 stocks could be takeover targetsCNBC recently screened for small- and mid-cap companies that could attract takeover offers on the basis of valuation. CNBC examined free cash flow yield, enterprise multiple, an…