The McClatchy Company (MNI)

According to Ultralong they won't get out of their debt.

MNI has an illiquid balance sheet and a too high valuation compared to its sales potential. It is also loss making. It may go bankrupt.

run forest run

Reopening my position on this one.

Weakening Earnings Opinion

I'm not impressed with their business model.

UltraLong's garbage list

Debt to equity = 25. 2008 EPS = 0.0 2008 DPS=0.70

How incompetent can you be?

This company had the biggest positive earnings surprise of today, Thurs. October 15, 2009, according to a website that specializes in such things.

Pick up on a dip

What you should do if you think this rally is real?
This advice applies if you just think that there's a few ticks on the clock before it hits midnight. Personally, I think that what we've seen recently has been a sucker's rally. However, even if I'm right, it doesn't mean that someone can't make good or even great money in the short-term taking the other side of my trades.
If you think that the jig isn't up, I suggest stocking up on small cap crap stocks. Craps stocks come hurtling out of their bottoms during rallies like this. Take a look at two homebuilders who many thought would go under, Beazer Homes (BZH) and Orleans Homebuilders (OHB). Both these stocks were and still are heavily shorted and deservedly so. Look at a YTD chart of these stocks compareing with the S & P 500 and the ETF based on the homebuilder's index.
Be careful, after all, you're going to be looking for crappy stocks, so don't be surprised if awful little banks and biotechs with no drugs that burn through cash pop up on the screen. A stock like that I think fits this bill perfectly is McClatchy (MNI). McClatchy used to be one the premier newspaper chains in this country. You can probably fill in the rest of the story.
Anyway, it has a terrifying debt to equity ratio of 25 and lost 22 cents a share last quarter, yet it is up 193% in the last six months! This is an extremely volatile stock, but I think it's got the legs for another big move up.

They have cut staff and other overhead as much as they can. Now they are a leaner company which must learn to survive without the print media, which is dying. The question remains, can they generate enough revenue to keep operations running, especially if the economy does not pick up right away?
I don't know, but why try to invest in a company with limited upside potential and the real potential for bankruptcy?

A good buy at this price, I like the fact they own 15% of Carear Builder.com, apartments.com; cars.com and basically the company does know and understand that a newespaper company such as itself can not profit in remaining in only the print paper arena.

as a former employee, they are poised to have a great year unless retail dies in the 4th quarter

Newspapers will underperform the S&P over the long term.

sector, an current volume.

Ding dong the witch is dead, which old witch? The newspaper witch! Wake up you sleepyheads and get into the 21st century. Local media is a dinosaur.

relative strenth

Washington Post. You get rid of the this paper? We might as well throw the USA in the turdlet! Own some shares. Go get your own too.