Thursday, March 08, 2007

CEO Pay at KB Homes Insulated Against Poor Performance

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On February 28, 2007, KB Home (KBH-$48.67) entered into an employment agreement with Jeffrey T. Mezger , who in November 2006, was promoted...
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Tuesday, March 06, 2007

10Q Detective Buys Abatix and Neurochem

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RECENT TRANSACTIONS Position Description Purchase Date Price Cost Sales Date Price Proceeds % Change 1,000 NTO 10/12/2006 $3.64 $3,652.99 03...
Monday, March 05, 2007

Executives at CH Energy Group "Thank God" for Bonuses

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It is he who made the earth by his power, who established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding stretched out the heavens. When ...
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Friday, March 02, 2007

"Mo-Cheese-than-Burger" at Red Robin

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The Red Robin Gourmet Burger (RRGB-$39.13) legacy began in the 1940’s with Sam’s Tavern, a small tavern perched on a Seattle hilltop near t...
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Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Can Carl Icahn Successfully Predict Motorola's Future?

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In June 2006, Business 2.0 Magazine assembled a list of 50 prominent people, identified not on the basis of pecuniary notability, but on th...
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Thursday, February 22, 2007

Bridgford Foods--Too Many Cooks in the Kitchen

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COMPARISON OF 5 YEAR CUMULATIVE TOTAL RETURN * AMONG BRIDGFORD FOODS CORP., THE S & P 500 INDEX AND A PEER GROUP * $100 invested on 11...
Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Applied Materials: Connect-the-Dots of CEO Splinter's Pay Package

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As an inducement to jump ship, it is now standard for a company looking for new talent to indemnify their just recruited CEO with guarantee...
Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Startech Environmental -- More Hot Air than Profit

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Startech Environmental (STHK-$2.95) is a “waste to energy” company commercializing its proprietary plasma processing technology, the Plasma...
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Sunday, February 11, 2007

10Q Detective Featured in BusinessWeek

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The term "weblog" was coined by Jorn Barger on December 17, 1997. The short form, "blog," was coined by Peter Merholz,...
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Thursday, February 08, 2007

For Whom the Bells Toll: Perchance for a Home-Builder?

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"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main…. Perchance he for whom this bell tol...
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Tuesday, February 06, 2007

Follow the Leader at PC Maker (Michael) Dell

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In a memo to Dell Inc. (DELL-$23.80) employees, days after returning as chief executive officer, Michael Dell wrote, ” We had great effor...
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Saturday, February 03, 2007

Greenhouse Gases Good for Wall Street

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On Friday, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) — a group of hundreds of scientists and representatives of 113 governments...
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Thursday, February 01, 2007

Retired CEO of NCI Building Systems Stays for a "Rich" Journey

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Back on January 19, our friend, Michelle Leder, did a nice job in highlighting the absurd severance package for NCI Building Systems’ (NCS-$...