Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group, Inc. (DTG)

Harvesting a score of +6.15 while increasing my cost basis from almost $18 to just over $19!

Horrifically overvalued, with gigantic debt (Debt to Equity of 6.69 and Interest Coverage of .6). I'd say just about everyone else on CAPS is saying that this will underperform, and I'm going to bet that they are right.

I have purchased DTG :-

http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=dtg&.yficrumb=yIQAwlz5SoW

Industry: rental & leasing
EPS = -1.94
EPS EST 1yr = 0.580 2yr = 1.515
EPS EST Q1 = -0.300 Q2 = 0.240
PE = na Industry 9.2
PB = 1.58 Industry 1.2
PS = 0.27 Industry 0.9
P/CF = 0.9 industry 3.7
P/FCF = na Industry 8.6
Yield 0.0 Industry 0.0
Gross profit margin = 49.2 Industry 51.8
Operating margin = -3.3 Industry 8.4
Net Profit Margin = -2.5 Industry 4.0
ROA = -1.4 Industry 1.9
ROE = -16.9 Industry 6.2
Insider ownership = 1.7
Greenblatt ROC = -4.18
Greenblatt Earnings Yield = 0.00
PosFCF generic % free cash flow yield -105.02%***
Passes 11 of 17 of Mike Klein's metrics
MaxPrice = 125.63 Discount 85%**
Metrics from qtr ending 9/30/2009
Caps rank 1
http://caps.fool.com/Ticker/DTG.aspx
MC score 247

All good enough for my money. I only suggest stocks that I own !

(See posts 388/584/665/760/1051/1807/2213/3546/3755/4046/4208/4225/4345/4573/4818/5241/5242/5310/5461/5579/
5169/7651 on 'Investment Analysis Clubs / Dynamic Value Investing ' board for extra due diligence applied ). **MaxPrice is a generic version of Mike Klein's Maxprice and ROC and Earnings yields are generic versions of Greenblatt's metrics. *** PosFCF generic % free cash flow yield taken from AAII and posts 5248 and 5253

See 'Investment Analysis Clubs / Dynamic Value Investing' board and my CAPS profile for further excellent companies selling at a discount to Maxprice with excellent current metrics. CAPS only shows my selections over 100Mill (unfortunately due to restricted lower market cap applied by MF CAPS).

As stated on the 'Investment Analysis Clubs /Dynamic Value Investing' board my aim is to obtain up to 50% returns p.a. as Buffett stated he could obtain (3 times) recently. A very difficult task but you can follow along with my buys and sells on my CAPS page, where I put my money where my mouth is . If I perform well I hope you can benefit. If not , feel free to ignore my comments. CAPS allows each and everyone of us to be clinically judged on our stock picking abilities over the LONG TERM.

Please always do your own due diligence before investing.

Manucastle :o)

Anytime the graph makes the S&P look like a straight line over the past 6 months is way overvalued.......especially with this much debt.

Death Touch

Huge debt, buckleys of paying it off.

ht Ultralong

Way too much debt to carry relative to the strength of their business.

Technically, dtg's hitting major resistance and started to bounce south.
Fundamentally, UltraLong's pitch against it sounds convincing.

Rated one star. Stock price losing momentum.

The chart is hilarious. By lookngi at it you'd think they were selling anti-gravity boots or potions that cure the common cold.

The stock of Dollar Thrifty isn't worth a penny, but its stock price has soared recently. Hoping a pullback is imminent. Following Portefeuille12.

calling a top is rarely smart.... but we all try it

What goes parabolic on the upswing, must go parabolic on the downswing.

Massive debt ($1.8 billion) which they have no hope of paying off.

HT Ultralong.

Their book value is cooked. Their inventory isn't worth what they say it is. Give it a 20-35% discount to get the true number.

To the moooooooon!

Hahahahahhahah, silly shorts! You cannot stop Skynet!

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