The Washington Post Company (WPO)
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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herbs814
(29.52)
Submitted: 8/18/2009 6:51:53 PM :
Start Price:
$450.87
WPO Score:
+20.95
overbought.. falling to test support (450) bearish stochastics. macd rolling over.
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JerryDreamer
(< 20)
Submitted: 8/2/2009 8:40:33 PM :
Start Price:
$449.88
WPO Score:
+19.00
There is less momentum, less volume, and less buying going on. We are in the last part of this rally.
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Paramnesia1930
(98.20)
Submitted: 7/31/2009 6:47:10 PM :
Start Price:
$449.88
WPO Score:
+19.00
The 1929-1930 equity rally (coming out of The Great Depression) lasted 147 days and the market was up 46%. It has been the same amount of time since the March, 2009 low and we are up about the same percentage. It’s déjà vu (paramnesia), so prepare for a drop of about the same percentage (85%).
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brocksamson
(99.03)
Submitted: 5/19/2009 2:26:11 PM :
Start Price:
$359.33
WPO Score:
+9.16
Do we really believe that a stock which has consistently underperformed the S&P for the last 5 years and is in a dying market will be able to outperform the broader economy?
Their revenues are sub-par, earnings growth is a nightmare. Dividend isn't very good.
Count me out.
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greenwave3
(96.35)
Submitted: 1/31/2009 8:53:41 PM :
Start Price:
$380.13
WPO Score:
+28.73
Kaplan is the only star, and I expect that segment to be down considerably in the near term. An oversupply of unemployed professionals will not encourage more of today's graduating college students to attend graduate and professional schools, which will significantly impair growth in this division for the foreseeable future.
All other holdings are slumping media businesses.
Buy at your own peril.
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PennyStockFool
(50.70)
Submitted: 12/4/2008 3:18:33 PM :
Start Price:
$384.46
WPO Score:
+26.13
elevator down at the WPO
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dwhit110
(66.89)
Submitted: 8/15/2008 2:21:21 PM :
Start Price:
$612.44
WPO Score:
+20.14
Newspapers as a medium are dying. The business model that turned WPO into a fantastic stock in the 20th century is built off consumer insights that are no longer true. WPO must adapt to go on.
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tonioman
(< 20)
Submitted: 7/1/2008 9:42:05 PM :
Start Price:
$571.47
WPO Score:
+15.87
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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tlevine984
(94.97)
Submitted: 12/14/2006 10:16:50 PM :
Start Price:
$720.34
WPO Score:
+24.44
Downward slide expected in the wake of more effective advertising vehicles.
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TMFLucky11
(97.22)
Submitted: 8/31/2006 4:56:48 PM :
Start Price:
$766.62
WPO Score:
+36.88
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 diversify into radio, television, and the Internet, but its smaller newspapers still aren't focusing nearly enough on their bread-and-butter: local and regional news. The national and international events of the day are already covered in great detail by cable, the Internet, and newspaper behemoths (such as its flagship) -- city newspapers would do well to remember this. Until it can do so -- and until it can further diversify into arenas that aren't fading into obsolescence -- I'm staying safely away.
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