Vimpel-Communications JSC (ADR) (VIP)

floridabuilder (99.90) Submitted: 4/08/08 9:20 PM : Start Price: $31.92 VIP Score: -23.57

Industry - telecom cellular.... this is my second foreign telecom cellular pick using the new Gardner Brothers method of picking stocks regardless if the market is up or down... over time I think this is a winning strategy vs market timing... plus it...

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texgeorgio (< 20) Submitted: 7/10/07 1:35 PM : Start Price: $21.22 VIP Score: -2.88

Vimpel is owned by the Alpha Group in Russia. The Alpha Group is owned by billionare Mikhail Fridman.Fridman, 43, is a secretive Russian billionaire whois a key figure in Russia's dangerous policy of selling nuclear technology to the Islamic Republic...

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Hanuka77 (67.52) Submitted: 2/23/07 4:40 PM : Start Price: $16.74 VIP Score: 16.73

30% owned by institutions, growing markets in the former soviet republics. 22 P/E is still cheap, I expect a boom upto 70 P/E (and for that you may call me nuts). The thing is - since revenue will by no doubt increase rapidly, it will take a long tim...

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MilkMonster (33.12) Submitted: 11/26/07 1:56 PM : Start Price: $32.99 VIP Score: -21.94

vimpel is a well run company with great fundamentals and big plans for a bright future... check out www.vimpelcom.com (the site is english) I own real money shares of VIP and I'm interested in buying more. Also as of today Vimpel has announced an of...

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timattox (89.22) Submitted: 7/25/08 10:57 AM : Start Price: $24.69 VIP Score: -17.59

Nice fundamentals, and a recent price drop due to Putin's slamming of MTL. This is just a points play for me, I have no real money on the table with this one. Short term momentum is downwards so this pick will probably be in the red for a little wh...

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thechumley (< 20) Submitted: 8/11/08 1:46 PM : Start Price: $24.62 VIP Score: 14.74

War! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing!

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tsnake (44.65) Submitted: 11/18/06 3:08 PM : Start Price: $12.90 VIP Score: 37.37

After watching "Borat" my conclusion was Kazakhstan's cell market is 100% untapped! HAHAHA All joking a side ex-USSR’s cell market is virtually untapped and VIP owns the market plus the financials look good for a Telco(compare to AMX).

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nipsa92 (45.22) Submitted: 12/26/06 2:56 AM : Start Price: $14.89 VIP Score: 24.20

Was as cheap as chips at start of '06 - still cheap going into '07 with great management, strong cash flows (especially when capex drops off), and a good play on russian consumption. Prefer MBT at this point.

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LimoDriver1971 (< 20) Submitted: 7/23/08 10:55 AM : Start Price: $28.01 VIP Score: -22.60

I've chosen yet another CAPS pick for this reason:


VIP just purchased the rights to another huge market to expand into.


I use the word "rights" loosely. VIP just paid not just pennies on the dollar, but tenths of pennies on t...

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Wheeljawk (< 20) Submitted: 8/09/07 11:41 AM : Start Price: $21.21 VIP Score: 1.27

Emerging market for cell phones and these guys know what their doing. IBD Top 100 plus Foolish fundamentals

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