10Q Detective

Investors often overlook SEC filings, and it is the job of the 10Q Detective to dig through businesses’ 8-K and 10-Q SEC filings, looking for financial statement ‘soft spots,'(depreciation policies, warranty reserves, and restructuring charges, etc.)that may materially impact Quality of Earnings.

Friday, June 29, 2007

Brooke Corp: Questionable Lending Practices, Inflated Balance Sheet

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Brooke Corporation (BXXX-$14.75) is engaged in franchise business with a network of 827 franchised locations (as of March 31, 2007), princ...
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Monday, June 25, 2007

Beware the Motivation of iMergent

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Sales and marketing practices the subject of numerous State Attorney General investigations, a formal SEC investigation related to potentia...
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Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Shareholders of Cleveland-Cliffs Still Standing in the Shadows

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Last Friday, shares in Cleveland-Cliffs ( CLF -$77.81) climbed $4.29, or 5.6% in price, following a report in the trade magazine, American ...
Friday, June 15, 2007

World Wrestling Entertainment: Goodbye, Vince -- The Show Must Go On.

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On June 12, 2007, World Wresting Entertainment (WWE-$17.04) announced that its Chairman Vincent K. McMahon entered his limousine when it su...
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Wednesday, June 13, 2007

Bed Bath & Beyond: Don't Confuse Social and Shareholder Activism

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Shareholder activism is a way that shareholders can claim their power as company owners to influence a corporation's behavior. Stockhol...
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Monday, June 11, 2007

The 10Q Detective Adds Cryptologic and Provident Energy to Portfolio

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CryptoLogic Inc. (CRYP-$24.57) is a leading software developer to the global Internet gaming market. Prior to enactment of the Unlawful Int...
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Thursday, June 07, 2007

TiVo is Not Mister Rogers' Neighborhood

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What do you do with the mad that you feel When you feel so mad you could bite? When the whole wide world seems oh, so wrong... And nothing y...
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Monday, June 04, 2007

The Best in Excuses & Lies -- by Cell Therapeutics

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In July 2006, the 10Q Detective skeptically observed that senior management at Cell Therapeutics had “a history of spending as much time ra...

More Than Just Chicken In Every Tyson Family Pot

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The share price of Tyson Foods (TSN-$22.22) has responded to profitable chicken prices (more than offsetting higher production costs, inclu...
Thursday, May 31, 2007

Washington Post Tells Us: "Don't Fear the A-Word."

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In a recent Washington Post article, a Eugene Robinson argued, “Don't Fear The A-Word” Mr. Robinson said: “There are plenty of explosi...
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Wednesday, May 30, 2007

"En su condición de Presidente," Bush Surrenders to Illegals: Forget Amnesty, It's Time to Raise the Mexican Flag.

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Miss USA Rachel Smith was jeered and booed [video] mercilessly at the Miss Universe pageant by a Mexican audience angry at U.S. immigration...
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Sunday, May 27, 2007

Who Benefits from Glaxo's Drug Disaster?

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Former chair of the FDA's Cardiovascular & Renal Drugs Advisory, Dr. Steven Nissen , whose challenges to the safety of several presc...
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David J. Phillips
Prior to founding the 10Q Detective, I held equity analyst positions with three brokerage firms and published the investment newsletter e-Growth Profit Letter - dedicated to uncovering companies with innovative, proprietary technologies in a range of industries. My work has been published in The Dick Davis Digest, The Bull & Bear Financial Report, BusinessWeek, CBS Interactive, Forbes, Kiplingers Personal Finance, MSN Money, TheStreet.com, 24/7 Wall Street, The Wall St. Journal, The International Herald Tribune, and Investors Business Daily. The 10Q Detective is recommended as a 'Must-Read' money blog in Kiplingers (Oct. 2006 & May 2008), Washington Post (May 2009); a 'Best of Financial Blog' by BusinessWeek (Feb. 2007 & April 2008),a 'Smart Stop' by The Journal of Accountancy (March 2008); 'Top 25' by Time magazine, a 'Top 50 Money Blog' by CurrencyTrading.net (April 2008); and, a 2011 LexisNexis Business Law Blog Nominee.
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