Special situation stocks and value investing
Welcome to the July 7th edition of the Festival of Stocks. The Festival of Stocks is a blog carnival dedicated to highlighting bloggers best posts on stock market related topics. Fat Pitch Financials is the actual birth place of this online weekly event, so it is always a special occassion when I get the chance […]
The Fat Pitch Financials Portfolio has maintained its downward trajectory this past month. The portfolio ended June with a balance of $1,225,136.89 versus the May balance of $1,291,425.91. On a positive note, while the Fat Pitch Financials Port was down only 4.09%, the S&P 500 was down 8.43% this past month according to the Fat Pitch Financials […]
I’ve been at Rehoboth Beach for the past week and the weather has been great. Given the great weather, I’ve spent most of my time at the beach and pool, so I’m a bit behind on my reading. Thankfully, the members of Value Investing News have done a great job gathering links to good financial […]
I just wanted to provide you with a quick update on the Fat Pitch Financials Portfolio. This Marketocracy portfolio ended the month of May with a total value of $1,291,425.91 (the account started with $1 million). The portfolio was down 1.48% for the month of May. For the last 12 months, the portfolio is down 2.58%. Nevertheless, […]
The Fat Pitch Financials Portfolio was down 1.21% in April. Considering that the S&P 500 was up 4.87% last month, this performance was rather disappointing. Looking back over the past 12 months, performance was was a bit better. The Fat Pitch Financials Port was up 0.36% versus a negative -4.93% for the S&P 500. Most importantly, […]
This past Saturday I had the opportunity to finally visit one of the Western Sizzlin Corporation (WEST) restaurants. The particular restaurant I visited was actually a Great American Buffet branded Western Sizzlin restaurant. After fishing with my son on the Potomac River all morning, we stopped by the Alexandria, VA restaurant that was fairly close to where we […]
The Fat Pitch Financials Portfolio first quarter 2008 performance update is a bit overdue at this point. I’ve been playing around with the new SEC EDGAR XML feeds all week and a few things have taken a backseat, including this post.
It’s been a tough quarter for stocks. The S&P 500 was down 9.44%. Thankfully, the Fat Pitch […]
The Special Situations Real Money Portfolio is a Coverdell Educational Savings Account that invests in stock workouts and other special situations. I created this account on October 19, 2004 as an experiment in arbitrage investing, and I’ve been writing about the portfolio here at Fat Pitch Financials ever since.
At the end of the first quarter of 2008, the Special Situations Real […]
The Special Situations Real Money Portfolio is actually a Coverdell Educational Savings Account I started in October of 2004. My goal has been to only invest in special situation opportunities in this account as an experiment on whether individual investors can benefit from this unique segment of the market. These opportunities have included going private transactions, odd-lot tender offers, spinoffs, […]
The Fat Pitch Financials Portfolio basically broke even in February. I started the month out with a balance of $1,375,445.21 and ended the month with a balance of $1,350,582.57 for a change of 0.04% this month. Nevertheless, this still beat out the negative 1.61% return for the S&P 500 over the same period.
This month was not your […]
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