April 2007 - Posts

• 1003	Comcast scores some more sports programming Monday, April 30, 2007 4:54 PM (9) The markets weren’t very good today so the announcement...

• 1070	Who’s the Boss in luxury fashion? Valentino Fashion Group of course Friday, April 27, 2007 12:31 PM (1) Originally part of Marzotta Group (MZTI.MI), an Italian textile...

• 1004	Test Your Financial Knowledge – Win a Free Book! Friday, April 27, 2007 10:45 AM (3) It’s time once again for our Finance News Quiz. Seeing how we didn’t do anything for Earth Day this week, we thought...

• 1074	The Big Picture – Housing Slowdown hurts many but could help amusement parks and movie theaters Thursday, April 26, 2007 9:28 PM (1) Lots of media attention has been shown the housing slowdown in...

• 2049	Cuisine Solutions – Thomas Keller of French Laundry fame loves their frozen entrees Thursday, April 26, 2007 11:52 AM (0) Chef Thomas Keller, well-known Napa Valley restaurant owner, along with other sensational chefs like Charlie Trotter have come around to the

• 920	Our Bastard Fund rocks – 10 reasons Al Gore wouldn’t approve Wednesday, April 25, 2007 8:03 PM (2) Since the blog launch 15 days ago, we’ve written about two of the four Rock Your Stock portfolios, the Ice Bucket and the Granola Fund....

• 877	Capital Southwest – one Heely of a venture capital company Wednesday, April 25, 2007 12:43 PM (0) Anyone with kids knows about Heelys (HLYS)...

• 950	Cheap Stocks wonders when Tootsie Roll’s share price will sweeten Tuesday, April 24, 2007 5:10 PM (2) I say not any time soon. Sorry Cheap...

• 1568	Two Former Apple Execs Charged With Backdating Tuesday, April 24, 2007 2:00 PM (3) Former Apple CFO Fred Anderson will pay $3.5 million in fines and penalties to settle a charge of backdating brought by the...

• 1377	Intuitive - making surgery more precise Tuesday, April 24, 2007 12:15 PM (3) Going under the knife is never a fun thing but a California firm makes surgical procedures a breeze. Intuitive Surgical (

• 1223	Apple - great stock, lousy investor relations Monday, April 23, 2007 3:12 PM (5) This post will begin what I hope will become a regular series about online investor relations. The first company I’d like to discuss...

• 932	Adams Golf is a small cap stock about to take flight Monday, April 23, 2007 1:41 PM (2) I can hear all the golf enthusiasts on Wall Street laughing right now after reading the subject line of this blog post....

• 1393	Take our Inaugural Finance News Quiz – Win a FREE BOOK Friday, April 20, 2007 9:01 AM (9) We are pleased to present our first ever Rock Your Stock Finance News Quiz,...

• 894	Stock Market Beat reports Pool Corp. defies the skeptics – Again! Thursday, April 19, 2007 5:15 PM (1) A blog post today in Stock Market Beat, filed under their Mid Cap Watch List paints a prettier picture for Pool Corp. (

• 849	ARK – developing unique restaurant concepts, not mass produced blandness Thursday, April 19, 2007 12:40 PM (0) This morning I was thinking about a food or beverage stock to write about and for some reason Mexican restaurants is the first...

• 902	Blogging Stocks thinks Barry Diller should save Yahoo… Wednesday, April 18, 2007 4:53 PM (0) …I say that’s like the blind leading the blind. Have you looked at IAC/InterActive Corp.(IACI)...

• 798	Head up the mountain with Aspen Insurance Wednesday, April 18, 2007 12:02 PM (2) While the company has a very familiar sounding name, it’s headquarters in Bermuda are nowhere near a ski hill of any kind, especially...

• 808	The Top 10 ways our Granola Fund portfolio saves the world Tuesday, April 17, 2007 2:57 PM (0) We created the Granola Fund partially as a joke. We’d already come up with the Bastard Fund and wanted some sort...

• 3568	Slingbox - another reason to like Logitech Tuesday, April 17, 2007 2:31 PM (1) The other day I heard a sports commentator on the radio discussing with another commentator...

• 784	Amer Sports - 5 reasons to love this little known Finnish sporting goods powerhouse Monday, April 16, 2007 11:00 AM (0) Most investors will never have heard of the company given it trades on the Helsinki Stock Exchange. I’ve followed

• 1495	Manchester United is a great soccer club but it’s not worth $1.4 billion Monday, April 16, 2007 4:40 PM (7) For all you soccer lovers, this one’s for you. Forbes magazine’s

• 864	Ethical Investing: should you buy CBS now that they’ve fired Don Imus? Saturday, April 14, 2007 1:04 AM (0) Most people by now have heard about the brouhaha involving Don Imus, the well-known shock jock formerly on CBS Radio. Mr. Imus,...

• 926	Is Liz Claiborne broken or just retooling? Friday, April 13, 2007 7:17 PM (4) William McComb became Liz Claiborne’s...

• 950	Babies are big business – just ask Nestle Friday, April 13, 2007 12:31 AM (3) The news highlight for me today was Nestlé’s purchase of the Gerber Products Company for...

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  The Top 10 brands in our Ice Bucket portfolio Thursday, April 12, 2007 6:58 PM (2) I don’t know about you but come summer my ice bucket gets awfully full and it’s hard deciding what belongs and what doesn’t. To make matters easier, I’ll limit my selections to the top brand for each company in our Rock Your Stock Ice...

• 977	Wallstrip says agriculture stocks are boring and that’s a good thing Wednesday, April 11, 2007 10:23 PM (5) On Monday

• 814	Loews Corp. is more than just hotels Wednesday, April 11, 2007 9:00 AM (0) I’m a big fan of some of the

• 3206	Cramer goes crazy for Jones Soda Tuesday, April 10, 2007 11:31 PM (8) First it was Hansen...

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  Welcome to Rock Your Stock Tuesday, April 10, 2007 9:27 PM (2) Today is the beginning of a journey that seeks to inform, educate and enrich our future readers. As the tagline “curious ideas for everyday investing” suggests, Rock Your Stock looks to generate ideas that go beyond the ordinary. We’re not interested in discussing Apple for the umpteenth time but...