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Giant Interactive Group (GA)
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Giant Interactive Group, Inc. develops and operates online games in the People's Republic of China.
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GA should be a screaming buy.Why?Their top game is china's top game (Zhengtu Online).Zhengtu Online has been described as "chinese Crack"http://www.worldsinmotion.biz/2008/01/the_china_angle_the_year_of_th.phpCrack is very addictive. Addicts tend to spend all their disposable income on their addiction.Giant Interactive is the sole recipient of said disposable income.Giant Interactive is already China's most profitable ADR by operating marginhttp://www.cnanalyst.com/margins/Giant Interactive makes a lot of money.You can own Giant Interactive shares.You can make a lot of money.Jon Stewart made Conan who made Colbert who made Huckabeeonly possible buzzkill? Chinese gov't legislating the crack errr I mean gameshttp://www.chinaknowledge.com/News/news-detail.aspx?type=1&id=12828
Very unoriginal crack analogy, plus your CAPS score is low... This one is a waiter.
Hey Stockguachoyour right my CAPS score does blow and deservedly so, however I've had much better success with my thumbs up picks than my thumbs down picks. I've had 55 or 57% success rate on thumbs up picks (depending on whether you include ccyg.ob which I had intended to thumbs down and lost 72.11 points due to a wrong click) and have an average pick score of 2.28 or 4.40 (again depending on whether you count ccyg.ob ) at the end of today. So not setting the world on fire but respectable.where I lost my points was on a slew of reckless thumbsdown a couple weeks ago that I put in the night before the FED did it's emergency 75 basis point cut. Really got burned bad by ABK and MBI in particular. Hard to believe I was an allstar prior to that. So take that for what it's worth in regards to ability to pick.I noticed that you green picked GA as well. Why did you do that if you think it's waiter? I see in your pitch that you think it could go as low as 7, which I readily admit that it might especially if there is china sell off or unfavorable regulatory action. Not criticizing just curious.as far as the admittedly unoriginal crack analogy, I mainly wrote that to amuse myself. Sorry you didn't like It.at any rate thanks for the response.
GA should be a screaming buy.Why? Crack is cheap compared to the money Giant Interactive players are spendinghttp://www.danwei.org/electronic_games/gambling_your_life_away_in_zt.phpDivorice is expensive when you want your Gaint Interactive virtual property and not your apartment.http://www.worldsinmotion.biz/2008/01/the_china_angle_the_year_of_th.phpWho is behind Giant Interactive? Shi Yuzhu - 2007 China IT Rich List:No.2 http://www.hurun.net/detailen80,people2.aspxShi Yuzhu -2007 China Rich List (NO.15) http://www.hurun.net/listen72.aspxShi Yuzhu -2007 2007 Finance Rich List (NO.6) http://www.hurun.net/listen81.aspxHow will Shi Yuzhu make Giant Interactive successful?Buy or "steal" the R&D core team from Shanda http://pop.6park.com/chan2/messages/51195.htmlCapital attracted in the IPO will mainly be used for acquisition. http://www.eeo.com.cn/ens//Industry/2008/02/20/92646.htmWhat government risks does Giant Interactive face? You would think huge but to date they only have sat back as President Shi Yuzhu is running around collecting awards.One of the Most Influential Entrepreneurs of 2007 http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS116406 19-Dec-2007 PRN20071219Nanfang Daily 2007 Top Ten Influential Elites Mainland China 2007 New Tycoon by Nanfang Weekend2007 CCTV China People AwardPersonal favorite - He wipes off the internet articles the government normally pulls http://www.danwei.org/media_business/how_the_zt_online_report_expos.phpPS. Your low CAPS scores does not scare me from personally owning this stock. My personal portfolio was very boring until I Visited China. Although I did not come home singing his commercial jingle "Don't take any gifts this New Year holiday, unless it's a Brain Platinum! " I did see and play his marketing vision which provided myself and others in this developing country an opportunity to rent play his games everywhere..can't say that about their competition.
Hey thanks Calgary411well even a broken clock is right twice a day (assuming it's not digital) so my low score shouldn't scare anyone anyway but in all fairness it probably shouldn't bring people in droves either . :-) I mainly write pitches to remind myself why I made a pick and then evaluate it later on. If it helps or amuses somebody else well then that's a bonus.sounds to me you've got some pretty serious rationale yourself for owning the stock. So it's not like you need me to tell you anything about GA :-)