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Brodie Hinkle, a senior at the University of Oklahoma, is a contributor to the Acquirer’s Multiple. Brodie is a double major of finance and energy management. He will be periodically writing opinionated articles about individual companies that show up on the stock screeners. If you’d like to contribute an article, please … Read More

At $61.69, Valero Energy Corporation (NYSE:VLO) is a particularly cheap large capitalization stock, trading on an acquirer’s multiple of 4.68x. It’s market capitalization is $30.8 billion, and its net debt position at $2.1 billion gives it an enterprise value of $33.0 billion. In the last twelve months it generated operating income … Read More

Hurco Companies, Inc. (HURC) is an interesting stock in the All Investable Screener. With a market capitalization of just $196 million it is one of the smaller stocks in that screener, but its $62 million in net cash makes its enterprise value even smaller again at $134 million. Operating earnings … Read More

Christopher & Banks Corporation (NYSE:CBK) is another cheap, scary stock in the Small and Micro Cap Screener. With a market capitalization of $65 million, net cash of $36 million and operating earnings of $8 million over the last twelve months, CBK trades on an acquirer’s multiple of 3.73x, and a … Read More

If you were anywhere near finance twitter or television this week you’re aware that the markets are having a tough run at the moment. I’m trying to contain my excitement. Down 6 percent is really nothing. It only looks frightening because the markets have been so subdued for so long. … Read More

Apollo Education Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:APOL) is one of those stocks that tests the patience of value investors. Like the rest of the for-profit education industry, it’s been in a tail spin for years. The problems are well known: For-profit educators exploited the torrent of government money available for higher education and loaded students … Read More

Big changes in the composition of the screeners this week, giving us lots of exciting new stocks to dig into. While the indexes only declined a few points, under the surface the waters are roiling, with big declines from many stocks. Earnings season has also shaken up the fundamental picture. AU … Read More

Valero Energy Corporation ($VLO), which at one point was the cheapest stock in the Large Cap 1000 Screener and the All Investable Screener, is having a blockbuster year, up 33 percent to date (I’ve been pitching it since September last year, here with Jeff Macke on Yahoo Finance). Even so, … Read More

It’s no secret why Movado Group, Inc. ($MOV) is in the bargain bin. Investors fear that the beast of 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino–Apple, Inc.–has done for watches what it did for Walkmans (the iPod), desktop PCs (the iMac), music (iTunes), laptops (the Macbook), and cell phones (the iPhone), not to … Read More

AVX Corporation (NYSE:AVX) is another unusually cheap stock in the All Investable Screener. At $13.36, it has a market capitalization of $2.2 billion, and with net cash of $844 million, an enterprise value of $1.4 billion. It generated operating earnings over the last twelve months $212 million, putting it on … Read More

Newpark Resources Inc. ($NR) has been beaten up along with the rest of the oil and gas service industry, and it’s starting to look decidedly cheap. At its $7.21 close yesterday, it has a market capitalization of ~$606 million. It carries net debt of $91 million, putting it on an … Read More

Net 1 UEPS Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:UEPS) has been running hard in 2015, up 69 percent since the start of the year, and up 13 percent since I wrote about it on June 10.  It’s getting close to exiting the All Investable Screener, but it remains cheap on any number of metrics. With … Read More