Monthly Archives: October 2015

EC Surgery Par

Surgery Partners Inc. (NASDAQ: SGRY) expects to raise $250 million in its upcoming IPO. Based in Nashville, Tennessee, Surgery Partners operates surgical facilities in the United States together with its subsidiaries. SGRY will offer 14.285 million shares at an expected price range of $23 to $26. If the underwriters price the IPO at the midpoint…

CBS Could Be A Hit Investment

We’ve covered the turmoil in media stocks quite extensively this summer. In short, investors are worried that this traditionally very attractive business model is being uprooted by the Internet in a similar way to how newspapers and magazines were uprooted over the past decade. The “big media”, video entertainment companies are all over the Magic Formula (MFI) screens the…

The 80/20 Rule Is Crushing The Economy

In business, the 80/20 rule states that 80% of your business will come from 20% of your customers. In an economy that is more than 2/3rds driven by consumption, such an imbalance of the “have” and “have not’s” impedes real economic growth.  I have often written about the disconnect between Wall Street and Main Street. As shown in the…

Record Shanghai Gold Withdrawals As Chinese Demand Increases

Investors have withdrawn a record amount of gold from the Shanghai Gold Exchange over the past year, signaling a steady increase in demand in the world’s largest gold consuming country. Bloomberg reported the most recent numbers: Withdrawals jumped 37% to 1,891.9 metric tons through Sept. 18 from 1,380.9 tons a year earlier, according to data on the bourse website….

ISM Manufacturing Weakest Since May 2013 Amid Collapse In New Ord

Following Manufacturing PMI’s weakness and ADP’s Manufacturing employment weakness (and six regional Fed surveys’ weakness), ISM printed 50.2 (the 3rd miss in a row, the 9th miss in the past 11 months, and lowest since May 2013). Under the surface was a disaster with New Orders collapsing (unadjusted are weakest since before 2013) with just 22% saying New Orders…