$7.08 -0.25 (-3.38%)
11/6/2009 2:09 PM

Asta Funding, Inc. (ASFI)

CAPS Rating: 3 out of 5

Acquires, manages, collects and services portfolios of consumer receivables. These portfolios generally consist of one or more of the following types of consumer receivables: charged-off receivables; semi-performing receivables and performing receivables.

Current Price $7.08 Mkt Cap $101.07M
Open $7.25 P/E Ratio 2.76
Prev. Close $7.33 Div. (Yield) 0.08 (1.10%)
Daily Range $6.98 - $7.25 Volume 3,370
52-Wk Range $1.00 - $9.24 Avg. Daily Vol. 20,000

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FRRElement (97.91)
Submitted March 26, 2008

Asta Funding is a very unique company that is in the business of buying bad debt from credit card companies and then sending their team of lawyers out to collect on that acquired debt. The secret to their success is that they are able to buy that… More

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whitepapers (92.83)
Submitted May 21, 2008

They had to borrow money from their Chairman of the Board, CEO, and members of their families, on an unsecured basis, to advance approximately $8.2 million to the Company.

They have 293MM in debt and only 3.5MM in cash. They lost… More

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Member Avatar LMSZ (25.31) Submitted: 9/17/2008 12:58:42 AM : Outperform Start Price: $6.82 ASFI Score: +11.52

Now at 44.76% Net Current Asset Value per share
Debt/Equity ratio 1.05
Operating cash flow at 4.56/share

This one may take a while to turn around, but when it does it has plenty of room to run.

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Member Avatar 7iles (< 20) Submitted: 8/19/2008 11:09:28 AM : Outperform Start Price: $7.41 ASFI Score: +8.49

This company has taken a beating this year and is likely to continue to hurt but I think the market has overshot on the downside. Hopefully things won't be as bleak as some think/expect.

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Member Avatar hicsuget (< 20) Submitted: 8/11/2008 3:46:38 PM : Outperform Start Price: $7.52 ASFI Score: +9.47

Market cap of 113M vs net tangible assets of 244M.

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dinze90

dinze90 (88.73) Score: +85.44

The Score Leader is the member with the highest score across all their picks in ASFI.

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Pick 		Member Name Member
Rating 		Start
Date 		Call Time
Frame 		Start
Price 		Stock
Gain 		S&P
Gain 		Score Commentary
AJsLaptop < 20 10/4/2006 Underperform 3M $34.60 -79.53% -14.49% +65.04
byahhh 91.93 2/16/2007 Underperform NS $34.27 -79.34% -21.83% +57.51
slipsup < 20 7/2/2007 Underperform 3W $37.25 -80.99% -25.25% +55.73 1 Comment
PPinvestments < 20 12/28/2006 Underperform 5Y $29.07 -75.64% -20.15% +55.49
Treylx < 20 7/5/2007 3/4/2008 Underperform 1Y $37.83 -81.28% -26.01% +55.27
appeal2 < 20 7/20/2007 Underperform 3M $38.71 -81.71% -26.88% +54.83 1 Comment
greiner3 82.03 12/27/2007 Underperform 1Y $27.98 -74.69% -25.08% +49.61
godsmacks1 97.03 12/28/2007 Underperform NS $25.75 -72.50% -24.34% +48.15 1 Comment
mrtofoo 94.68 1/4/2008 Underperform 1Y $21.91 -67.68% -21.09% +46.59
Ywinner 55.12 2/6/2008 Underperform 1Y $19.19 -63.10% -17.04% +46.06
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Member Name Member
Rating		 Start
Date		 Call Time
Frame		 Start
Price		 Stock
Gain		 S&P
Gain		 Score End Date Commentary
TrackJimCramer < 20 12/18/2007 Underperform 3W $25.07 -71.76% -23.06% +48.69
TrackSherman < 20 9/30/2007 Outperform NS $37.18 -87.65% -36.21% -51.44 6/1/2009 @ $4.59 6 Comments
TrackDreman 89.07 9/30/2007 Outperform NS $36.94 -80.83% -26.44% -54.39 1 Comment
TrackKaufmanBros 89.55 6/29/2007 Outperform NS $38.96 -29.93% -2.88% -27.05 12/18/2007 @ $27.30

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