Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. (USA) (LGF)

Well, duh. Stock belongs over $10. Trading at $5. Once the dust settles w/ big holders' loading up portfolios on the cheap, should take off fast.

Misunderstood, underappreciated diversified media company. Growing rapidly, succeeding across multiple venues, and yet still trading priced as though its success were at all dependent on the success/failure of the Saw franchise. Major turnaround in cost control in recent quarters, while maintaining high level of investment in expansion & growth. About to break out with a vengeance. Also, possible acquisition target.

earnings

overvalued

Earnings report last night. Good report.

LGF has some real potential, and their issues are often pointed towards the management, so perhaps this can be fixed.

LGF realeases a lot of interesting movies that usually are targeted at specific groups, and specific genres. It's easy to see that they have success with a lot of these films, and hopefully at some point they get their game together. I think as they go along on a successful path they will realize they really need to step their game up.

I want to love this company and there is so much potential. However, they just don't seem to be able to get over the hump. Maybe it's their lack of risk and their satisfaction with providing product that most of the time seems to only have middle-of-the-road upside. It appears that Lionsgate will be staying on the sidelines, cineplex-wise, this summer, so maybe the ongoing Saw franchise and Tyler Perry movie slated for this fall will be a boon. I realize the DVD business can be a money-maker, that LGF has over 12,000 tiitles in its library, and a nice distribution network, but with Icahn throwing darts at management and a wider than expected loss for fiscal fourth quarter, I am going to have to wait and see some momentum before jumping in.

Low BV, High revenue par sh TT. Hard to say! But trounce the S&P500 doubtful.

Will wait patiently for proper valuation and/or takeover.

b rated horror films on low budgets = profits.... eventually, right?

The best entertainment coming out of LGF is the Icahn gambit. Even his old cronies are in. As long as these boys are buying up the shares, you can be sure it's headed to a new high soon. Several months may be a bit soon, but it's coming. Disclosure: griffinfinity put his money where his mouth is and actually holds shares.

I've used Lion's Gate Films as a Caps Pick previously and still like them, even w/ the recently lowered '09 earnings revisions. LGF not only produces numerous lower-budget films for both the theater and direct-to-DVD releases, but also has an extensive DVD/Video library. The ongoing economic recession, with an continued move towards "escapism" entertainment can only help LGF in the long term. Even w/ the recent disappointments of their higher profile 'Transporter 3' and 'The Spirit' films, I'd still hope for a good turn around during the summer movie season for this one. Being a bit of a bargain at under $4 currently, I feel that LGF will be a strong long term play in the 18-24mo. range.

Tyler Perry , Marvel comics projectors and excerise dvds ex Biggest Loser

Undervalued. There is some good literature posted on this very site for the reasons why.

I love movies

Lionsgate has fallen less than many other stocks in the entertainment sector and the prospects for it to gain 70% over the course of the next year are very good.

Lions Gate Films has a great end of the year coming.

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Transporter 3

Saw V

The Spirit

The company should be trading more in the $12 range right now.

They have a great library of titles.

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Value of assets and earnings are understated by traditional accounting.

An Icahn portfolio stock.