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- Office Depot: Dialing for Dollars
- Saj Karsan submits: Every quarter, public companies are required to hold conference calls to discuss their most recent results. You can usually access a recording of a company's last conference call on the investor relations section of its website. While the written filings of management do give facts and some...
- External links 2008-11-12
- Build-A-Bear Workshop: A 'Sure Thing?'
- Saj Karsan submits: On the surface, Build-A-Bear BBW appears to offer great value for the value investor. The stock has a market cap of just $75 million, but has earned an average of about $25 million in each of the last four years. Furthermore, its balance sheet shows a book...
- External links 2008-12-22
- Will Newell Rubbermaid Bounce Back?
- Saj Karsan submits: A few months ago, Reyer looked at Newell Rubbermaid NWL, the maker of several brand name products including Sharpie, Paper Mate, Parker, Rolodex, and Rubbermaid. At the time, NWL traded at $19 per share, and Reyer concluded that there was little value to be found in this...
- External links 2008-12-23
- Testing the Efficient Market Hypothesis on CVS Caremark
- Saj Karsan submits: The Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) asserts that stock prices appropriately incorporate relevant information. As such, it isn't possible to generate market beating returns because the current price reflects available information. While it's not possible to completely disprove this theory (EMH theorists attribute the success of Warren Buffett...
- External links 2009-01-05
- Walgreen: Cheap By Its Own Standards
- Saj Karsan submits: Walgreen WAG is a retail drugstore chain that operates primarily in the US. Its industry is considered relatively stable, as prescription medication costs are unlikely to rise or fall significantly depending on the economy (unlike certain surgical procedures, as we saw here). WAG has also been around...
- External links 2009-01-05
- Williams-Sonoma: 'Homing' In on Value
- Saj Karsan submits: Williams-Sonoma WSM has been thrashed by the market. As a retailer of specialty home products, it has seen revenue declines of about 20% from last year thanks to the deflating housing bubble. The stock, however, has been beaten down by over 80% from its high at the...
- External links 2009-01-08
- Home Depot: P/E at Historic Low
- Saj Karsan submits: Few would dispute the fact that the housing market is undergoing an unprecedented downturn, but stocks in this industry may have been punished far more than is warranted. Investors with a long-term outlook can seek to profit by buying such beaten down stocks, and holding them until...
- External links 2009-01-11
- Rite-Aid: Bewildering Optimism
- Saj Karsan submits: When considering a company for investment purposes, investors must be wary of managements that over promise and under deliver. One symptom of such a situation is over-optimism from managements in their quarterly reports and conference calls. Consider Rite-Aid RAD, a U.S. drugstore chain. Deep down in the...
- External links 2009-01-14
- Circuit City's Book Value: What's Real, What's Not?
- Saj Karsan submits: As we've seen in previous posts, looking at a company's price to book (P/B) value can be a useful indicator as to how favorably the market is looking at a particular stock or group of stocks. Low P/B values can also offer investors downside capital protection in...
- External links 2009-01-27
- Whirlpool: Drowning in Pension Obligations
- Saj Karsan submits: Across a number of value metrics, Whirlpool WHR looks like a bargain. This manufacturer of home appliances creates products under several brands including Maytag, KitchenAid and Gladiator, along with its flagship Whirlpool brand.The stock currently trades at just $34, despite the fact that the company brought in...
- External links 2009-02-12
- Gildan Activewear: Market Share Up, Sales Down
- Saj Karsan submits: When times are good, many bad companies can grow revenues and earnings because their industry is operating at full capacity. Conversely, in recessionary times, even great companies can see revenues drop as demand slows industry-wide. So how does one identify the great companies from the bad ones?...
- External links 2009-02-27
- Build-A-Bear Keeps on Building
- Saj Karsan submits: Build-A-Bear BBW has a market cap of $80 million, with a cash position of $47 million and zero balance sheet debt. But as a mall retailer, it has certain fixed costs in the form of rent and labour which make investors very nervous when revenues are in...
- External links 2009-03-02
- Dorel: Stable, Profitable and Terrifically Priced
- Saj Karsan submits: Dorel (DIIB.PK) manufactures and distributes products in three segments: juvenile (strollers, car-seats etc.), leisure mainly bicycles, and home furniture. The company's fourth quarter results held up very well despite the downturn, suggesting many of the company's products are recession proof. But the stock price has taken a...
- External links 2009-03-19
- Williams-Sonoma's Minimal Downside Risks
- Saj Karsan submits: Back in January, we discussed Williams Sonoma WSM, a specialty retailer of home products, as a possible value investment. Since then, the stock is up some 20% while the company's latest results indicate that it does indeed have the ability to weather the economic storm. Sales in...
- External links 2009-04-09
- When Fixed Costs Aren't So Fixed
- Saj Karsan submits: We have always advocated that investors seek out future operating lease payments that a company has agreed to. Under ordinary circumstances, these payments are fixed obligations, like debt payments, and should be treated as such. (For a discussion of why this is the case, see here.) Under...
- External links 2009-04-23
- Abercrombie Bucks Discount Trend: Will It Survive or Thrive?
- Saj Karsan submits: In this retail environment, where consumers selectively scour for bargains, it is tempting for retailers to reduce prices in order to drive sales and reduce inventory. One company bucking this trend is Abercrombie & Fitch ANF, whose stated number one priority through this downturn is to "protect...
- External links 2009-05-04
- Rocky Mountain May Have a Rocky Road Ahead
- Saj Karsan submits: Many value investors are extolling the virtues of Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory RMCF, and with good reason. The stock has a P/E of 8, while the company has almost no debt and has managed to stay profitable throughout this downturn. As noted at Wide Moat Investing, the...
- External links 2009-05-07
- JAKKS Pacific: What's in the Box?
- Saj Karsan submits: Investors will often gauge a business' ability to make money by looking at its operating income over a period of several years. But investors who ignore the line items on the income statement which fall below operating income can miss out on some crucial details. Consider JAKKS...
- External links 2009-05-12
- Deferred Revenue: Like Dancing with Death
- Saj Karsan submits: For value investors, a drop in the price level of the stock market does not necessarily mean the value of these businesses has changed. But there are exceptions. Companies that have certain types of pension plans will be in trouble, as we discussed two months ago; thanks...
- External links 2009-05-13
- Newell Rubbermaid's Compelling Value
- Saj Karsan submits:Newell Rubbermaid NWL is a familiar stock on my site. Back in August of 2008, we thought it was still a bit too pricey at $19/share. But starting in December of 2008, it began to look attractive, having reached $9/share. A couple of months later, it became a...
- External links 2009-05-13
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