Trans World Entertainment Corp (TWMC)

gwinternetman (23.99) Submitted: 4/6/2008 9:12:55 PM : Start Price: $3.29 TWMC Score: +39.13

too much online competition

u2spooky (< 20) Submitted: 2/6/2008 6:15:09 PM : Start Price: $4.35 TWMC Score: -53.89

book 6.38

orisaba2007 (< 20) Submitted: 10/2/2007 4:24:48 AM : Start Price: $4.80 TWMC Score: -48.28

tes

ErnieSIrwin (< 20) Submitted: 9/26/2007 2:04:42 PM : Start Price: $4.53 TWMC Score: +44.15

I used to work for TWEC and it's a horribly misrun company.

Their overall management strategies include "Throw everything against the wall and see if it sticks", "buy up small, failing competitors and burden yourself with debt".

Their business is in CD's, primarily. As of now, they have 5% of the market. Borders and Barnes & Noble each have a larger market share than that.

Best Buy, Wal*Mart and iTunes are crushing TWEC.

They have failed to show any innovation, given the current market trends of online music/downloading, etc.

Stores are closing around the country.

I give this retailer as a whole 5 years before going belly up.

sandvig (99.67) Submitted: 9/6/2007 6:34:07 PM : Start Price: $4.71 TWMC Score: +48.49

Veni vidi duci - I came, I saw, I calculated.

They have a highly flawed business model. They have about a third of the employees that Amazon has. They have a market cap of 148 M compared to Amazon's 35.6 B. How can they compete with Apple, Amazon, Wal Mart?

I just don't see opportunity ahead of them.

lcsystem (33.98) Submitted: 3/10/2007 8:36:16 PM : Start Price: $5.21 TWMC Score: -55.46

q4 earnings up but near 52 week low.

tim2pac (98.90) Submitted: 3/6/2007 2:56:12 PM : Start Price: $5.20 TWMC Score: +55.85

The Media retailer is going the way of it's predecessors (Sam Goody, Suncoast). It's competing with big box retailers that are often able to undercut them on prices, the majority of its inventory is priced at list, which means it doesn't sell.

Junkyardhawg1985 (96.54) Submitted: 3/1/2007 2:58:04 PM : Start Price: $5.24 TWMC Score: -55.21

Trading below 1/2 of net tangible assets and an enterprise value to revenue ratio of 0.16 while remaining profitable. With the continuing increase in music and movies on-line, their business will struggle, but given the valuations, they are worth the risk.

TMFMattyA (93.84) Submitted: 2/5/2007 11:29:12 AM : Start Price: $5.60 TWMC Score: +54.95

This specialty retailer of music, DVDs, etc. faces brutal competition from WalMart, Target, BestBuy, and the increased migration of consumers towards digital downloads and on-demand entertainment; meanwhile, it's facing negative free cash flow and growing debt; potentially headed towards bankruptcy

StingyDog (29.26) Submitted: 1/19/2007 6:24:00 PM : Start Price: $5.60 TWMC Score: -55.83

0.5 Price/Book

mikevanko (28.19) Submitted: 10/3/2006 8:35:52 PM : Start Price: $6.05 TWMC Score: -63.62

starting new ventures