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Mad Catz Acquires License for Rock Band Game

By: admin | Date posted: 01.04.2008 (5:48 pm)

MCZ – Mad Catz Interactive (American Stock Exchange) - (Closing Price – $1.17)

Mad Catz announced a new license agreement today to produce and distribute game peripherals and other products for the game Rock Band published by MTV games.

Mad Catz has secured the rights to manufacture, market, and sell game accessories, including both wired and wireless bass guitars, a drum percussion set bundled with drum sticks, and a wired microphone. Mad Catz expects its initial offerings under this license agreement to be available in the first half of 2008.

Mad Catz continues to align itself with popular games and I think acquiring the license for Rock Band is a smart move. The Rock Band game is similar to Guitar Hero which has been highly successful for Activision (ATVI). If Rock Band attains even a little bit of the success that Guitar Hero has had it should be a popular title.

I am surprised the stock price of Mad Catz finished flat on the day but the general unease of the broader markets has weighed on Mad Catz for a while. Mad Catz’s share price is overdue for a pop and the company is coming into its strongest quarter so I would continue to hold your shares.

Disclaimer: I have no position in MCZ.

Is There Any Money in Internet Search Stocks?

By: admin | Date posted: 12.31.2007 (4:45 pm)

One of the first stocks I owned was Ask Jeeves (bought out by IACI – formerly ASKJ) which I bought after the tech bubble collapsed. It was trading at a little over a dollar and the company was quickly growing revenues and earnings. I sold the stock too early but I still made over ten times my money in that stock, a ten bagger in Lynch speak.

Ever since then I have followed the internet search sector to see if another small player could follow a similar path as Ask Jeeves. I’ve followed the second tier search companies for a couple of years and frankly I don’t think there is any money to be made investing in these companies (from a fundamental perspective).

The smaller companies like Looksmart (LOOK), Copernic (CNIC – formerly Mamma.com MAMA), Miva (MIVA – formerly Findwhat.com FWHT), and Local.com (LOCM) are nowhere close to making a consistent profit. If you have ever used their websites you know why. They simply don’t deliver relevant search results. (more…)

Value Investor? Want to Share Adsense Revenue?

By: admin | Date posted: 12.27.2007 (1:55 pm)

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The feature that distinguishes Value Investing News from other stock news aggregators is you are rewarded for the success of Value Investing News by sharing in the Adsense revenue.

If you are interested in submitting stories to Value Investing News click here. I am currently registered with Value Investing News and I think it is a good site.

CAAS Plans to Acquire 36.5% of Henglong Automotive Parts Company

By: admin | Date posted: 12.26.2007 (5:44 pm)

CAAS – China Automotive Systems (Nasdaq) - (Closing Price – $8.28)

China Automotive Systems announced that it has started discussions with Hubei Wanlong Investment Co. to acquire an additional 36.5% of Henglong Automotive Parts Company.

China Automotive Systems currently owns 44.5% of Henglong Automotive Parts Company. In 2006 Henglong posted sales of USD$54.54 million, representing 57% of China Automotive Systems’ total net sales and net profit of USD$9.75 million, while CAAS’ net profit was USD$4.81 million. Acquiring a bigger portion of Henglong will obviously be beneficial.

I don’t see any reason to sell China Automotive Systems and I would continue to hold your shares. According to Yahoo Finance the insider sells that were weighing on the stock price have stopped and there was even an insider buy on Dec. 3. (more…)

Timothy Sykes Stock Blog

By: admin | Date posted: 12.26.2007 (4:45 pm)

If you base most of your stock making decisions on technical analysis you should check out the stock blog of Timothy Sykes. He provides his personal trading decisions along with trading advice.

He is also the author of An American Hedge Fund which details the wild ride of the hedge fund he started. It has many good reviews so it should be worth a look.

Stocks Worthy of More Research

By: admin | Date posted: 12.23.2007 (1:57 pm)

Here are a couple of stocks that have been submitted to me that are worthy of more research.

The first is Shengdatech (SDTH). Shengdatech has good fundamentals and the stock price is currently showing some momentum.

The second is Envoy Capital Group (ECGI). Envoy Capital Group has bought back a ton of shares in the last year and the company is trading at a discount to book value.

I am not recommending that you buy shares of these companies. However, they are worth a look.

Disclaimer: I have no position in SDTH or ECGI.

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