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$613.40 12.90 (2.15%)
7/23/2008 4:03 PM

The Washington Post Company (WPO)

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A diversified media and education company. The Company operates principally in four areas of the media business: newspaper publishing, television broadcasting, magazine publishing and cable television.

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138 Outperforms
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Publishing - Newspapers (18), Media (20), Buffett Stock (50), District of Columbia (5), Among Most Trustworthy Companies (97), Washington, DC (6), Mid Cap (670)
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The Washington Post Company At A Glance

Current Price: $613.40
Last Trade Time: 7/23/2008 4:03 PM
Open: $598.10
Previous Close: $600.50
Daily Range: $598.10 - $614.99
52-Week Range: $551.11 - $885.23
Volume: 21,300
Market Cap: $4.95B
P/E Ratio: 21.69
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Avatar devoish (99.67) Submitted: 1/18/08 2:40 PM

I will trust Warren Buffet to help choose management and let them run. Companys printed media is slipping but cable/educational/on line is growing. They are positioning themselves towards a growing segment of the US population with Latin broadcasting and English language classes.

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Avatar TMFLucky11 (96.17) Submitted: 8/31/06 4:56 PM

The Washington Post is one of the most well-known newspaper names in the world. But like with the New York Times, WPO's business model is SO 20th-century, and if it's going to succeed in an era of up-to-the-minute information and on-demand news, it's got to change its current course. It continues to...More

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Avatar tonioman (< 20) Submitted: 7/01/08 9:42 PM : Underperform Start Price: $589.00 WPO Score: -4.71

The sector of the company that has kept the stock afloat has been Kaplan, but Kaplan relies much on its tutoring operations, with tutoring being a historically-proven highly unreliable industry.

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Avatar PennyPincher12 (48.15) Submitted: 6/16/08 7:56 PM : Underperform Start Price: $586.92 WPO Score: -10.87

Negative on newspapers.

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Avatar AntonChigurh (< 20) Submitted: 6/08/08 1:25 AM : Outperform Start Price: $599.00 WPO Score: 8.86

WPO is now trading twenty dollars or so above the half-billion dollar tender offer the company made to buy back shares - almost ten years ago! The convergence of two factors is responsible for the decline - the secular decliine of the newspaper business and the credit crunch fallout in education loans. The former has been a known quantity since the tender offer, the latter will pas. WPO's education unit is comparable to APOL. Using multiples from that co. and STRA, you get WPO's cable, newspaper, broadcast television and Newsweek and Slate magazines for free. And a rider on 300 million dollars worth of Berkshire shares. Company does well in election years.

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Avatar Dragontoad (< 20) Submitted: 5/27/08 8:18 AM : Outperform Start Price: $621.00 WPO Score: 5.74

Buffet stock, fair price, looking for bounce off lower trendline support

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Avatar Jivy2008 (55.38) Submitted: 5/06/08 7:31 PM : Outperform Start Price: $661.82 WPO Score: 2.37

Purchase on dips!

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