May
21
Category: gold, uxg
New visitor? Consider subscribing by RSS or by email.Over the past nine months, U.S. Gold shares (Amex:UXG) lost two-thirds of their value even while gold itself flirted with over-$1000 prices. The problem? A toxic combination of mildly-disappointing exploration results and sky-high investor expectations. Shareholders apparently focused on [...]
May
17
Category: cptc, news and views
Worth reading:
EZENIA! INC. Announces 2008 First Quarter Financial Results - If you thought Yahoo! was the only company with an exclamation point in its name, I present Ezenia! Its a serial underperformer but has cash exceeding its market cap. Not enough to get me interested.
Composite Technology Announces Quarterly Results - the good news: revenues [...]
May
13
Category: ntwk, software stocks
My biggest percentage gainer of the year is from…Pakistan? Hard to believe, but NetSol (Nasdaq: NTWK), a Pakistani business process outsourcing and lease management software company, is up 90% from where I bought it less than two months ago!
The rise wasn’t entirely unexpected. The shares were dirt cheap, and the company had a [...]
May
12
Category: avca
Investors in microcap nursing home provider Advocat, Inc. (AVCA) should be pleased with first quarter earnings. Revenues increased 30.9% year-over year, net income from continuing operations was up 124.7% (to $.50 per share, fully diluted), and funds from operations rose 45.7%. Part of the increase was due to Advocat’s purchase of seven [...]