Office Depot, Inc. (ODP)

I own ODP :-

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

Industry: retail- speciality non app-apparel
EPS = -7.65
EPS EST 1yr = -0.428 2yr = -0.244
PE = na Industry 14.5
PB = 1.93 Industry 1.6
PS = 0.13 Industry 0.3
P/CF = na industry 11.9
P/FCF = 9.7 Industry 8.9
Yield 0.0 Industry 0.0
Gross profit margin = 27.2 Industry 34.3
Operating margin = -14.9 Industry -1.7
Net Profit Margin = -16.9 Industry -1.1
ROA = -41.2 Industry -4.5
ROE = -177.1 Industry 0.0
Insider ownership = 2.5
Greenblatt ROC = -87.29
Greenblatt Earnings Yield = 0.00
PosFCF generic % free cash flow yield 10.32%***
Passes 12 of 17 of Mike Klein's metrics
MaxPrice = 40.56 Discount 85%**
Metrics from qtr ending 09/26/2009
Caps rank 3
http://caps.fool.com/Ticker/ODP.aspx
MC score 238

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)

cnbc.com 20 Stocks with the Biggest Potential To Drop target price: 4.63

This stock is good for the next four years. Cash flow positive and great brand.

Darling of stock pickers. I worry that this stock can't live up to its expectations.

This company is positioned well to not only survive the current financial crisis but it will flourish after. They are cash flow positive and have well respected leadership and a solid plan to win.

great online department. Online is the future of sale.

it was good for the boom, boom is over

#65 Best Corporate Citizen
http://www.business-ethics.com/node/75

There isn't enough room in this sector for three huge companies, and from my experience with all of them, I think Staples is going to win. It's going to be a long and slow decline, peppered with short-term inversions, but ultimately Office Max and Office Depot are going to zero and Staples will stand alone.

This company appears to have outside investors ready to put there money where there mouth is

Once people start spending again this stock will come up.

trend PS test

Looks like Office Depot is going to weather the storm (although I'm down a tick from where I jumped in) Could easily double in price IF things improve over the next couple of qtrs.

Bought.

Think about it.

Another circuit city waiting to happen. You'll see.

ODP is a leader in office supplies and has great bargains on computers and should not be selling at its current price. I beleive it will go higher over the next few months.

This stock has had a good run with the bulls but it's hard to see this one as a recession survivor

march,31,2009