Too Far, Too Fast
The fundamentals don't support the meteoric rise in these stock prices over the last year.
The fundamentals don't support the meteoric rise in these stock prices over the last year.
As the Dow flirts with a 13-month high, some stocks have simply come too far too fast. The fundamentals of these companies don't support the meteoric rise in stock prices over the last year.
For some companies, like Amazon.com (AMZN), we think the intrinsic business is sound, but that the market is pricing in unrealistic growth. For others, like Sirius XM (SIRI) we think the market is mistaken that the business has any value whatsoever.
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Name Ticker Total Return YTD Market Cap ($mil) Entercom Communications Corporation (ETM) 422.76 239 Sirius XM Radio Inc. (SIRI) 418.42 2,400 Rite Aid Corporation (RAD) 338.71 1,208 LIN TV Corporation 320.18 240 McClatchy Company A 295 258 VanceInfo Technologies Inc. ADR 268.21 684 Gray Television, Inc. (GTN) 257.5 62 Northgate Minerals Corporation 256.63 860 Golden Star Resources, Ltd. 253 835 Emmis Communications Corporation A (EMMS) 234.29 43 Belo Corporation 213.46 486 IAMGold Corporation (IAG) 188.87 5,219 Perfect World Co., Ltd. ADR 184.43 2,413 Flextronics International, Ltd. (FLEX) 179.3 5,808 China TechFaith Wireless Comm Tech, Ltd. ADR 176.56 153 Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN) 153.8 56,353 Rovi Corp 138.1 3,104 Drugstore.com, Inc. 121.77 276 EnerSys, Inc. (ENS) 112.45 1,127 Cerner Corporation 105.38 6,446 Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc. 104.23 149 Salesforce.com, Inc. (CRM) 98.91 7,895 JDS Uniphase Corporation (JDSU) 88.49 1,493 Scripps Networks Interactive, Inc. 83.43 6,647Transparency is how we protect the integrity of our work and keep empowering investors to achieve their goals and dreams. And we have unwavering standards for how we keep that integrity intact, from our research and data to our policies on content and your personal data.
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