The Microcap Speculator

Each of these companies recently sported a multi-billion dollar capitalization, but now is a microcap (market cap < $250M).  All figures below courtesy of Yahoo! Finance and Yahoo! Stock Screener:

1.  RH Donnelly (NYSE:RHD)

Market Cap:  $23.4M

% off 52-week high: 99%

Employees: 4,700

Description: RH Donnelly is one of the nation’s largest providers of telephone directories and online yellow pages directories.

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2.   E.W. Scripps Class A  (NYSE:SSP)

Market Cap: $99.62M

% off 52-week high: 98.75%

Employees:  8,500

Description:EW Scripps operates several newspapers, cable networks including HGTV and the Food Network, and online properties like BizRate.com.  UPDATE: as a reader pointed out, the cable and internet properties were spun out into a separate company.

Get trend analysis for SSP from Ino.com

3.  Abitibi Bowater  (NYSE:ABH)

Market Cap: $24.19M

% off 52-week high: 98.39%

Employees: 15,600

Description:Abitibi Bowater is a global producer of newsprint, pulp and paper products.

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4.  Qimonda AG ADS (NYSE:QI)

Market Cap:  $46.85M

% off 52-week high: 98.33%

Employees:  12,806

Description: Qimonda is one of the world’s largest producers of semiconductor memory chips (DRAMs, etc.).

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5.  Fleetwood Enterprises  (NYSE:FLE)

Market Cap.:  $9.92M

% off 52-week high: 98.1%

Description: Fleetwood Enterprises is a leading manufacturer of recreational vehicles and manufactured housing.

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6.  Nortel Networks  (NYSE:NT)

Market Cap:  $199.0M

% off 52-week high: 97.52%

Employees:  32,550

Description:  Nortel provides networking solutions to both enterprises and communications providers.

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7.  Crocs, Inc.  (Nasdaq:CROX)

Market Cap:  $126.2M

% off 52-week high: 96.42%

Employees:  5,300

Description: Crocs manufactures and sells comfortable-but-ugly casual footwear.

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8.  Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group (NYSE:DTG)

Market Cap:  $24.2M

% off 52-week high: 95.86%

Employees:  8,500

Description:  Dollar Thrifty operates some of the nation’s largest car rental operations.

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9.  Lear Corp.  (NYSE:LEA)

Market Cap:  $145.0M

% off 52-week high: 94.56%

Employees:  91,455

Description: Lear is a major supplier of seats and other products to automotive manufacturers.

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10.  Crosstex Energy (Nasdaq:XTXI)

Market Cap.: $106.1M

% off 52-week high: 94.05%

Employees:  700

Description: Crosstex operates over 5,000 miles of natural gas pipelines and several processing facilities.

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11.  First Marblehead (NYSE:FMD)

Market Cap:  $122.9M

% off 52-week high: 93.78%

Employees:  241

Description: First Marblehead is one of the largest private providers of student loans.

Get trend analysis for FMD from Ino.com

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