Tuesday, November 22, 2011

CEDC BARGAIN FOR THE VALUE INVESTOR

Central European Distribution Corporation (CEDC) operates primarily in the alcohol beverage industry. CEDC is a producer of vodka and is Central and Eastern Europe's integrated spirit beverages business. During the year ended December 31, 2010, it is measured by total volume, with approximately 32.7 million nine-liter cases produced and distributed. The Company's business primarily involves the production and sale of its own spirit brands (principally vodka), and the importation on a basis of a range of spirits, wines and beers. Its operations are conducted in Poland, Russia and Hungary. During 2010, it opened up a new operation in the Ukraine to import and sell its vodkas, primarily Green Mark. In February of 2011, CEDC completed purchasing of the remaining stake of the Whitehall Group. On January 20, 2010, CEDC completed its acquisition of Russian Alcohol. In August 2010, CEDC closed the sale of 100% of its wholesale business in Poland to Eurocash SA.

233.43MN/A51.03B26.06B1.08B
Employees:4,15341,402123,78670,0002.21K
Qtrly Rev Growth (yoy):45.10%N/A0.90%11.10%19.00%
Revenue (ttm): 825.89M10.68B115.71B22.95B997.10M
Gross Margin (ttm):39.43%N/A59.64%37.98%41.27%
EBITDA (ttm):90.90MN/A4.57B4.52B179.00M
Operating Margin (ttm): 8.64%N/A26.48%12.80%12.68%
Net Income (ttm):-938.92M1.06B13.00B1.81BN/A
EPS (ttm):-13.11N/A4.801.530.96
P/E (ttm):N/AN/A17.0514.4416.67
PEG (5 yr expected):-0.79N/A1.343.641.34
P/S (ttm):0.30N/A3.211.140.95

Thursday, October 13, 2011

LMLP - Great Value Bargain at 1.72


LMLP PVT1 PVT2 PVT3 Industry
Market Cap: 48.56M N/A N/A N/A 288.03M
Employees: 59 N/A N/A N/A 992.00
Qtrly Rev Growth (yoy): 16.50% N/A N/A N/A 16.90%
Revenue (ttm): 48.01M N/A N/A N/A 193.23M
Gross Margin (ttm): 51.22% N/A N/A N/A 36.00%
EBITDA (ttm): 19.01M N/A N/A N/A 21.51M
Operating Margin (ttm): 37.97% N/A N/A N/A 6.44%
Net Income (ttm): 10.44M N/A N/A N/A N/A
EPS (ttm): 0.37 N/A N/A N/A 0.12
P/E (ttm): 4.70 N/A N/A N/A 17.18
PEG (5 yr expected






LML Payment Systems Inc. provides payment processing solutions primarily to businesses and organizations that use Internet to receive or send payments in Canada and the United States. The company provides electronic payment and risk management solutions for mail-order and telephone-order call-centers, and online merchants and brick and mortar merchants, including government and financial institutions; and offers solutions that enable e-merchants to accept credit card and debit card payments, electronic funds transfers (EFT), and automated clearing house (ACH) payments. It also provides hosted solutions, including a connection between the merchant’s Website and its host system that provides the merchant with a shopping cart with secure payment processing for credit cards and debit cards, EFT, and ACH payments; a secure order management interface; multiple currency and shipping options; and reporting and reconciliation tools. In addition, the company offers authentication tools for merchants to reduce the risk inherent in card-not-present credit card transactions; other authentication services that provide information related to the validation of credit card orders and fraud screening of applications by consumers; and various risk management tools. Further, it licenses its intellectual property estate, which includes five United States patents related to electronic check processing methods. Additionally, the company engages in primary and secondary check collection, including electronic check re-presentment. Its check processing services involve return check management, such as traditional and electronic recovery services to retail clients. The company sells its products and services indirectly through channel and technology partners; and directly through its Website and internal sales staff. It serves approximately 10,000 businesses and organizations. The company was founded in 1974 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.
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Tuesday, October 11, 2011

NASDAQ -SPMD PROFITABLE BARGAIN

                                                                                             Q2 ( 2011)                     2010
Net profit margin 6.89% -16.67%
Operating margin 24.94% -2.13%
EBITD margin - 13.69%
Return on average assets 4.12% -5.80%
Return on average equity 680.65% -230.59%
Employees 4,400 -




SuperMedia Inc. (SuperMedia), formerly Idearc Inc., is a yellow pages directory publisher in the United States. SuperMedia also offer online advertising solutions. The Company sells advertising solutions to its clients and places their advertising into its portfolio of advertising media. The Company places its client’s advertising into its portfolio of advertising media, which includes the Superpages directories, Superpages.com, its online local search resource, the Superpages.com network, an online advertising network, its Superpages direct mailers, and Superpages mobile, its information source for wireless subscribers. During the year ended December 31, 2010, it published approximately 1,100 directories in 33 states across the United States and distributed approximately 114 million directories to businesses and residences in the United States

Saturday, October 8, 2011

MTL BARGAIN OVERSOLD STEEL STOCK

Mechel OAO is a Russia-based integrated mining and steel company. The Company focuses on the production of mining products, such as coal, iron ore, nickel, and steel products. Its operations are divided into two segments: Mining and Steel. The Mining segment focuses on the production and sales of coking coal concentrate, iron ore concentrate and coke with assets in Russia and the United States. The Steel segment comprises production and sale of semi-finished steel products, carbon and specialty long products, stainless flat products, and value-added downstream metal products, including hardware and stampings. The Company has production facilities in 13 of Russia’s regions, as well as the United States, Kazakhstan, Romania, Lithuania and Bulgaria. Additionally, Mechel OAO owns two trade ports and a railway company.

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Q1 (Mar '11) 2010
Net profit margin 11.54% 7.10%
Operating margin 15.28% 15.77%
EBITD margin - 20.67%
Return on average assets 8.16% 4.78%
Return on average equity 25.59% 15.01%
Employees 88,146 -
Carbon Disclosure Rating - -

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

LVS - The most profitable casino stock

Direct Competitor Comparison

LVS PVT1 MGM WYNN Industry
Market Cap: 35.41B N/A 5.39B 18.99B 444.47M
Employees: 34,000 70,0001 45,000 16,405 4.50K
Qtrly Rev Growth (yoy): 47.10% N/A 16.70% 32.40% 8.60%
Revenue (ttm): 8.38B 8.91B1 6.32B 4.87B 422.77M
Gross Margin (ttm): 47.02% N/A 37.65% 71.77% 47.67%
EBITDA (ttm): 2.80B N/A 1.10B 1.28B 71.91M
Operating Margin (ttm): 23.75% N/A 7.28% 18.13% 11.19%
Net Income (ttm): 1.04B 876.40M1 2.89B 376.57M N/A
EPS (ttm): 1.19 N/A 5.75 3.02 0.05
P/E (ttm): 40.94 N/A 1.92 50.78 20.04
PEG (5 yr expected): 0.84 N/A -0.54 0.41 0.73
P/S (ttm): 4.28 N/A 0.84 4.03 1.12

Monday, September 19, 2011

Should you invest in stocks?

Stock investing can be very rewarding and very risky , its not for everyone , before you decide to invest in stocks you should find out
what it takes to succeed , here are some basic rules that you should follow :

Rule # 1 - Discipline - Make sure that you have a plan and that you would stick into that plan . Dont buy when prices go up sell when prices go down, that leads to the next rule.

Rule # 2 - Control your emotions . Dont worry about the market , if the market goes down do not fear , if the market goes up dont be greedy , if you pick a company with strong fundamentals , good earnings ,  good management you will make money most of the time.

Rule # 3 - Be patient . Long term investments requires patience. If you buy a stock in a bull market most likely you are going to loose
money , search for bargains , undervalued stocks with a good track record , that's the way to reap generous profits.

Rule # 4 - Measure Risk . Start investing very little money until you learn the business , make sure to risk a very small porcentage of your net worth.

Study the history of the markets , read books from investment masters like Benhamin Graham , understand their philosophies ,
learn their strategies and you will find a way to become an expert investor , develop your on tactics and strategies and once you feel
confident that stock investing is for you , start small and leverage your way to success.