Irwin Financial Corp (IFC)

TMFPlatoish (35.01) Submitted: 10/21/06 10:52 PM : Start Price: $20.87 IFC Score: -67.21

Irwin Financial is a small diversified regional banking concern headquartered in Indiana. Recently they have been engaged in deleveraging their business by selling off their mortgage banking business. The amount they received for this segment suggest...

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BrewDood (90.45) Submitted: 2/12/07 9:42 AM : Start Price: $20.76 IFC Score: -62.46

Irwin is a play on a successful strategic repositioning. Irwin's earnings are financing its recent start-up growth. The sale of Irwin Mortgage, the volatile piece, allows the company to grow the commercial banking segment. Cash received from these ...

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claydoh623 (< 20) Submitted: 8/22/07 3:51 PM : Start Price: $11.26 IFC Score: 48.49

The most painful Hidden Gems, Pay Dirt stock I ever bought...

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gameguru (< 20) Submitted: 8/16/07 11:47 AM : Start Price: $9.83 IFC Score: -44.58

With a company in as much recent trouble as Irwin Financial, you have to ask yourself two questions:

1) Is the company likely to stay in business?
2) Can the company return to profitability?

If the answer to the both is affirmative, then you'll beg...

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spiritof78 (93.18) Submitted: 2/22/07 11:23 AM : Start Price: $20.97 IFC Score: -62.51

Deceptive earnings figures will cause some to avoid this company in the short term. Additionally its not going to show up in many screeners when investors search for ideas, due to the whacky trailing P/E ratio. However these numbers are very tempor...

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daskol (< 20) Submitted: 8/03/07 10:22 AM : Start Price: $10.35 IFC Score: -46.11

4.6% dividend yield at this price.

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mkeszler (33.68) Submitted: 4/26/07 3:02 PM : Start Price: $15.86 IFC Score: -54.86

Classic case of throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
Beaten down unfairly by those happy to sell now, ask questions later. This Pay Dirt selection will eventually pay off, though you may need to be a bit patient.

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Phileas100 (51.40) Submitted: 4/18/07 2:11 AM : Start Price: $15.95 IFC Score: -56.52

Long standing financial institution with committed owners and refocusing on the right side of their business. I think this company is being under presure for the general pesimism around the mortgage industry.

They may be hit also by a one time event...

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greens05 (47.97) Submitted: 8/06/07 11:44 AM : Start Price: $9.45 IFC Score: -44.68

Seriously, this is getting stupidly cheap.

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TMFWBuffettJr (99.86) Submitted: 3/06/07 4:12 PM : Start Price: $18.90 IFC Score: -63.29

A mortgage lending company that's not really a mortgage lending company. Anything with the word "lending" or "credit" in their description took a huge beat down yesterday even if they have nothing to do with subprime lending (like PRAA and FMD for e...

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