Archive for January, 2008

Bronco Drilling (BRNC) to be bought by Allis Chalmers Energy (ALY)

New visitor? Consider subscribing by RSS or by email.One of my favorite energy stocks, Bronco Drilling [[BRNC]] agreed to be bought out by Allis Chalmers Energy [[ALY]] for $437.8 million in cash and stock. That should come as no surprise to readers of this blog. [...]

Crystallex (KRY) units offer is not a good sign

Junior mining company Crystallex [[KRY]] announced today a public offering of units. According to the press release, the company “plans to use the net proceeds from the financing to develop the Las Cristinas Project, for debt service and for general corporate purposes.”
As longtime readers know I was once bullish on Crystallex, but soured [...]

Microcap Vice: 5 companies taking the low road to high profits

The figures are in, and vice beats nice. Look no further than this comparison between The Vice Fund [[VICEX]] and The Timothy Plan Conservative Growth Fund [[TCGAX]], which claims to be “America’s first pro-life, pro-family, biblically-based mutual fund group.”

The Conservative Growth Fund is only one of the funds in the Timothy Plan, but [...]

Microcap insider buying report - December 2007

Last month’s microcap insider buys all but bucked the market meltdown, losing an average of only 0.69% from the time the list was published through today, versus losses of 6.44% in the SPY (S&P 500 ETF) and 7.80% in the IWM (Russell 2000 ETF). So what microcap stocks were insiders and 10%+ [...]