Browsing Category: "Special Situations"
I received an interesting email message today from a reader regarding Sally Beauty Holdings (SBH). The Fat Pitch Financials reader wrote: I am a student at Harvard Business School looking at SBH for an investing club and I was hoping I could take a few seconds of your time for a few questions about your [...]
Sally Beauty Holdings (SBH) was up 4.65% today, January 29, 2007. Part of the reason for Sally Beauty’s stock price rise today may be due in part to this past weekend’s Barron’s 2007 Roundtable article($). Sally Beauty Holdings was one of Oscar Schafer’s picks for this year’s roundtable.
Yesterday, I discussed the performance of the Fat Pitch Financials Port. Today, I want to go over the performance of the Special Situations Real Money Port. As some of you may know, the Special Situations Real Money Port is actually my son’s Coverdell Education Savings Account. This portfolio focuses on special situation opportunities including: going private transactions, odd [...]
This week is your last chance to take advantage of the low $90 per year membership price at Fat Pitch Financials Contributor’s Corner. Contributor’s Corner has really expanded in 2006. We now cover odd lot tender offers, spin-offs, mergers, the occasional rights offering, and of course going private transactions. I also post any trades I make in the [...]
Members of Fat Pitch Financials Contributor’s Corner have been following my investment in the recent Alberto-Culver Co. (ACV) spinoff, Sally Beauty Holdings (SBH). If you haven’t heard, Alberto-Culver, the beauty and hair care products company that makes VO5, TRESemme, St. Ives, and more, gave their shareholders one share in the newly spun off Sally Beauty, for [...]
It has been over three months since I’ve updated you on the status of the Special Situations Real Money Port. It’s hard to believe that so much time has already passed. I’d been distracted by all the developments of Parlux Frangrances (PARL) and I didn’t get a chance to put together an update. However, members of [...]
I threw in the towel on Parlux Fragrances (PARL) on Monday. After seeing a run up of over 10 percent Monday morning, I took action.
Yesterday, I mentioned that My Money Blog reviewed Fat Pitch Financials Contributor’s Corner. Today, I noticed that Ricemutt at Experiments in Finance also shared her experience with Fat Pitch Financials Contributor’s Corner this past week on her blog. I apologize to Ricemutt for not noticing her review sooner. I’ve been a bit behind on my [...]
My Money Blog recently took Fat Pitch Financials Contributor’s Corner for a test drive. Read about how he turned a $1713.60 investment into $1971.00 in 40 days using an investment listed at Fat Pitch Financials Contributor’s Corner. My Money Blog bought 499 shares of Advanced Nutraceuticals that was listed in Contributor’s Corner and was able [...]
[Originally published on Sept. 27, 2006. Corrected mistake regarding sales of PARL stock that was actually a sale of ECMV stock.] The saga continues with Parlux Fragrances (PARL). Today there was an SEC filing by major shareholder, Glenn H. Nussdorf. I believe this 13D filing is what moved the price of PARL up almost 10 percent this morning. [...]
