Universal Travel Group (NASDAQOTH:UTRA)

nows the time

56m cash 0 debt strong looking fundamentals with a strong looking future. China works hard so they better play hard too. :P

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china travel

Great fundamentals and is starting to drift upwards off its bottom.

Chinese tourists will be spending more and more in the following years to travel the world, and this company is well positioned on the chinese travel market

Hope your sitting down if you are long.. http://brontecapital.blogspot.com/2010/09/travelling-through-china-with-universal.html

Conviction short at next peak in downtrend.
Why? Read this:
http://brontecapital.blogspot.com/

value screen tracking- do not buy or sell off of this recommendation

This link bears repeating. This appears to be a stock that is being pummeled for good reason. Beware!

http://brontecapital.blogspot.com/2010/09/travelling-through-china-with-universal.html

Asia travel looks highly successful

This stock is going to zero.

I know, I know, it's undervalued, trading below book value, has a great p/e...and all of this would be reason to buy if there were people even reasonably able running the company. Unfortunately for UTA shareholders, the management are morons. Just listen to Q22010 earnings call. Every significant issue (equity dilution, organic growth, incomprehensible future estimates) is answered with "we cannot comment." The crescendo came when an analyst asked when they were going to be able to use their cash flow to fund future acquisitions...a completely fair question on the minds of all the poor suckers who were investing in this piece of trash. The CFO comes on and tells the guy to stop being accusatory and that he shouldn't ask questions like that on an earnings call. Bottom line is this: don't be fooled by the mouth-watering metrics. If you look deeper, you'll see this is a company that is growing for growth's sake, run by morons who will inevitably run this company in the ground. The numbers for this one look too good to be true. That's because they are.

22% Cap Rate, and has growing EBIT significantly without much additional CapEx each year. Selling at a 50% or so discount . . .

This is one of my STARZ.
Here is the thought process on this STAR:
a) Divided rate over Zero
b) 3 Year Beta between -5 & +3
c) 15% + Insider ownership
d) No greater than -50% Growth rate for the last 3 years (tough last couple of years so good that insiders are still owning the stocks)
e) Current CAPS rating between 3 Stars & 5 Stars
Open to all Industries and Sectors screened this down to just 250 stocks. I like round numbers. 12 of them I already own through other screening tools. I tend to be somewhat conservative but looking for 3 things at this point in my investing:
1. Stability & Strength
2. Yield and Modest Growth
3. Strong Position within a sector regardless of whether the
entire sector is strong or not. Each sector has to perform to some degree for the whole world economy to function. I am looking for 5 or more years down the road, ROI, and Growth. Not looking for rockets, just stars. This is a Star!!

good stock; undervalued; china growth stock with good potential and limited downside

This could be the next priceline on sale for under $7.00 with a earnings growth rate of almost double it's P/E Seriously on sale and they are going after the every day Joe in China, last time I checked there were quite a few every day Joe's in China.

Strong Growth with excellent valuation.

Growing China travel market, very cheap PE ratio

strong buy