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No, they probably got their mail deliveries, and assuming we're heading to the shitter. Hope they sell a lot lower, so I can rebuy 4M more.
Nice to know we have enemies. Can't wait for the reverse so you get what you deserve!!!
Nice to know we enemies who want to destroy our stock!!
Guess who own most of the cheap stock folks???
Give up???
Greetings from Taunton, MA Dunkin Donuts.
What an interesting place. Highest Heroine Overdose Area and people are lovin to talk to me for a $2 gift card.
Guess we now know, who's their favorite son, wink!
Hallelujah, we have a seller lol.
I love Pigeon Carriers Personally...
They always leave a trail behind...
Will someone just sell lmao.
Mazal Tov
We agree again. 26M and getting stronger!!!
I would be a buyer here BIG TIME!!!
JMHO
Greetings from Dunkin' Brands Cumming, GA, where I just surveyed 387 customers before Dunkin decides if to move onwards with their new location nearby!!!
I'm a Demographic Market Researcher for 30 top brands and have spoken to over 14k people in the past 9 months alone!!!
Next Stop, Taunton, MA for DD
Best,
Sam Cohen
Will it go up?
What would you like to know?
What thoughts?
Same to you and yours. Greetings from Cumming, GA.
Not a friend, and foolish!!!
Bid is now $.0065 by $.0095
Still no takers!!!
Penny Wise, lol, pound foolish!!!
When this runs, one day, you will be kicking yourself in the rear end, and say: "What was I thinking, why didn't I just buy at the ask!!!"
I just lost, HOW MUCH???
LMAO!!!
Bid is $.0063 by $.0095
No sellers here, lmao!!!
Try $.0095, wink!!!
Actually, try $.10
So who wants to sell their stock at $.006 that they bought much higher lol
Seems that if one wants any stock in CNCG, they must hit the offer. Below here, it's pretty much dried up!!!
Interesting indeed.
Not me lol
Or the posts posted and then they were tossed by Jimbo
Lmao. Penny will be back soon dahling!!!
Nice to know jim isn't a long and never was!!! This guy must be taken out of his stock. He's up to no good!!! Guarantee my posts will vanish, like yesterday!!!
Hey Jimbo aka Robert.
Show us all your stock at one time, so we may buy you out instead of these games.
K-Mart is almost out of blue light specials, due to their Merger with Sears & Row Row Row your boat, lol
LMFAO!!!!
Jim,
Was that you today buying aggressively?
Sure hope so!!!
Love Love Love Our New Ceo!!!
INVESTING WITH: Nicholas D. Gerber; Ameristock Fund
By CAROLE GOULD
Published: November 12, 2000
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NICHOLAS D. GERBER, who runs the $111.4 million Ameristock fund, is a tradition-minded kind of guy. ''I have lots of old-fashioned values, such as 'buy-and-hold investing means more than six months,' and 'dividends and book value matter,' '' Mr. Gerber said, adding, ''I'm sorry I couldn't attend Ben Graham's classes at Columbia.'' Benjamin Graham, who taught finance at Columbia University in the 1930's, is widely regarded as a father of value investing.
Mr. Gerber has created value for his shareholders. The fund returned 19.6 percent a year, on average, for the three years through Thursday, compared with 8.9 percent for its peers in the large value fund category and 15.1 percent for the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index, according to Morningstar Inc.
Mr. Gerber, 38, who started the fund in 1995, runs it from his home in Moraga, Calif., near Oakland. The AmeriStock fund owns some of the biggest American blue-chip companies, with market capitalizations above $15 billion; he calls them ''the biggest of the big and the bluest of the blue.'' It holds 47 of the 200 or so companies in this category.
In some ways, Ameristock is run as if it were an index fund. Though it follows no benchmark, ''we believe in keeping turnover, brokerage expenses and taxable distributions to a minimum,'' Mr. Gerber said. Turnover for the year ended June 30 was 31 percent, compared with 112 percent for the average domestic fund.
The buy-and-hold style reduces risk. ''We're not trying to be a tool for beating the market or the hot fund of the day,'' he said. ''We want to be the hot fund of the decade.''
Mr. Gerber and his aides spend most of their time shifting the weightings of the fund's holdings among three groups, based on their current valuations. They invest 4 percent of the fund in each stock they consider undervalued, 2 percent in each stock they see as fairly valued and 0.5 percent in each issue that they regard as overvalued but that is a market leader or is needed for diversification. Each company in the portfolio is re-examined quarterly, after it reports earnings.
The managers use three computer screens to assess valuations of the large-cap stocks they track. They look first for price-to-earnings multiples that are relatively low, compared with those of companies already in the portfolio. Then they look for relatively low returns on equity, or profit divided by net worth.
The final screen looks for companies with high dividends. Over all, the fund's dividend yield is roughly 2 percent, compared with 1.2 percent for the S.& P. 500.
Mr. Gerber's research is very different from that of most money managers. He does not visit company executives, he said, ''because the companies we own are so large that management couldn't give us any insight that we couldn't get anyway.''
Nor does he use Wall Street research or attend investment conferences. Instead, he said, ''we pound the pavement, visit stores and read all available public documents.'' The goal is to evaluate whether a company's performance can continue.
They analyze their information by using a model created by Michael Porter, of Harvard Business School, that measures the relative strength of a company versus its competitors, suppliers and customers.
Mr. Gerber may sell a stock when the price-to-earnings multiple is more than three and a half times that of the broader market, when fundamentals deteriorate or when a company spins off a subsidiary he does not want to hold.
Andrew Ngim, 40, one of two analysts with the fund, joined Mr. Gerber as co-manager this fall. The other analyst, Robert Nguyem, 41, will join Mr. Ngim in managing a new fund, Ameristock Large Cap Growth, which will be available in January. At that time, Mr. Gerber will also add a new fund, Ameristock Focused Value, to his duties; his co-manager on that fund will be Howard Mah.
To Mr. Gerber, yesterday's hot growth stock can retreat to become today's value play. In September, the fund bought shares of Microsoft at $63.625, raising its holdings from 0.5 percent to 2 percent of the fund's assets. At the time, the stock was nearly 50 percent off its December 1999 high of $119.125 a share, Mr. Gerber said, hurt by the antitrust case against it and sales growth that lagged behind Wall Street's expectations, along with the general downdraft in technology stocks.
Microsoft's problems with the Justice Department are not slowing its revenues, he said, and even if the company is split up, the parts will be worth more than the whole.
On Friday, Microsoft closed at $67.38, or 32 times Wall Street's earnings projection of $2.13 a share for 2001.
IN late October, Mr. Gerber doubled his stake in General Motors, more of a classic value play, to 4 percent, paying $57.9375 a share. The stock had fallen enough to become fairly valued, in his view, after G.M. lowered its stake in shares linked to Hughes Electronics, which owns DirecTV. ''We like it as a car company,'' Mr. Gerber said. ''Yes, it has problems with the union and sales growth. But improving productivity will increase income without necessarily increasing sales.''
He also likes some new G.M. features like the OnStar communications link that is installed on many of the company's new cars and trucks. It connects motorists with operators who can provide directions or emergency assistance, and can be upgraded to offer Internet services like e-mail or stock quotations that are read to drivers.
G.M.'s price-to-sales multiple is just 0.2, compared with 1 to 3 for most industrial companies, Mr. Gerber noted. Perennially trading at low earnings multiples, G.M. closed Friday at $55.63, or 6 times consensus earnings estimates of $9.26 a share for 2001.
In other cases, Mr. Gerber concludes that a stock's weakness is fully justified. He eliminated his 4 percent position in Philip Morris early this month, selling his shares at $36.5471 each, still making a profit. The stock now trades at $37, or 9 times the consensus earnings forecast of $4.12 a share in 2001.
''It's been on our watch list for more than one year,'' he said, explaining that he was worried about lawsuits against the company. ''We've concluded that the industry will survive, but no longer as a growth-oriented consumer packaged-goods company like Coca-Cola,'' he said, ''Instead, it will be a tax collector, with excess profits going to federal and state governments and tort lawyers, not to shareholders.''
Photo: Nicholas D. Gerber started the Ameristock fund in 1995. He worked from his home in Moraga, Calif., holding his 20-month-old son, Jacob. (Peter DaSilva for The New York Times) Chart: ''Ameristock Fund'' Category: Large value Net assets: $111.4 million Inception: August 1995 Manager: Nicholas D. Gerber since inception Minimum purchase: $1,000 ($1,000 I.R.A.) Portfolio turnover: 31% 3-year annualized return through Nov. 9: 19.6% Category average: 8.9% Sector breakdown Financials: 31% Consumer staples: 11% Automotive: 9% Health care: 9% Chemicals: 8% Fees Front-end load: None Deferred load: None 12b-1 fee: None Expense ratio: 1.0% (Sources: Morningstar Inc.; company reports)
Just got my answer, and bottom line, it doesn't affect us one bit!
Not, meant to write!!! Greeting from CFA Henderson, North Cacalaki
No worried Homeboy!!!
Yeehaw
I would call us SRVVR
Surviving for 17 years lol, and not calling it a day!!!
Not bad news out, and guessing something positive is coming!!!
And what a clean opera it is.
45 days we shall see something God willing. Everything takes a lifetime sentence.
Acha!!! As an old Jewish man would say, or Eddie Murphy would say!!!
Finally, a decent post from you in quite some time Robert. You will all see in due time, why we were so lucky, to have and still have at our sides, Mr. David Neibert!!!