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In the wake of 2007’s credit freeze and 2008’s $4.00+ per gallon gasoline prices, we thought that Winnebago’s (WGO) filings yesterday (an annual report here and a proxy here) might be interesting.
Winnebago, which manufactures the iconic “mobile dwellings” that lumber along America’s interstates, has indeed taken a financial hit. Yet the filings also contained some optimistic news [...]
Though it’s been awhile since we last footnoted CIT Group (CIT), given the news over the past few days, it seemed like a good idea to take a closer look at their filings.
One of the things that immediately jumped out was the relatively long string of comment letters between the company and the SEC, some [...]
Remember last November, when the auto companies’ CEOs flew in their corporate jets to beg the Senate Banking Committee for a taxpayer-funded bailout? After that public relations fiasco, the CEOs assumed contrite tones, assured Americans that they “got it,” and promised to start running their companies in a more frugal manner.
As proof, when the [...]
In addition to handing out a Mercedes, donating to politicians and providing memberships to the Core Club, we can add filing at midnight to the growing list of contra-indicators we’ve uncovered here at footnoted.
How else to explain the news this morning over the departures of Alcatel-Lucents’s (ALU) top two executives, CEO Patricia Russo and Chairman [...]
Last January, we footnoted the strange sequence of events at Build-A-Bear Workshop (BBW), which at the time was trading close to $30. In various presentations last winter and spring, I used the company as a case study, asking groups of participants to make either the bear or bull case on the company based on a [...]
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