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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AntonChigurh
(< 20)
Submitted: 6/8/2008 1:25:18 AM :
Start Price:
$581.17
WPO Score:
-12.12
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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brocksamson
(98.79)
Submitted: 5/19/2009 2:26:11 PM :
Start Price:
$359.33
WPO Score:
+8.75
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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catersi
(84.19)
Submitted: 1/27/2008 12:27:34 PM :
Start Price:
$702.16
WPO Score:
-27.38
great divs!
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cowboyishere
(< 20)
Submitted: 12/2/2008 9:53:08 PM :
Start Price:
$367.40
WPO Score:
-22.88
This is a stock that has legs. When it is up . . . it is up, and visa versa. This is a traders stock more than anything, but it holds very well in the long run.
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devoish
(99.64)
Submitted: 1/18/2008 2:40:22 PM :
Start Price:
$746.33
WPO Score:
-31.90
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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dfiore1
(20.02)
Submitted: 4/29/2008 3:47:55 PM :
Start Price:
$645.94
WPO Score:
-18.13
Only because of their test prep. The paper is holding them back!
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Dragontoad
(68.86)
Submitted: 5/27/2008 8:18:22 AM :
Start Price:
$602.52
WPO Score:
-14.22
Buffet stock, fair price, looking for bounce off lower trendline support
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dwhit110
(66.90)
Submitted: 8/15/2008 2:21:21 PM :
Start Price:
$612.44
WPO Score:
+20.12
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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FreethinkerKW
(59.08)
Submitted: 12/25/2006 2:40:33 AM :
Start Price:
$709.85
WPO Score:
-24.88
Only 9.62 million shares total oustanding. Of those, 1,727,765 are owned by Berkshire Hathaway.
Pays a quarterly dividend of $1.95 which is about a 1% yield annually at $780.00 per share.
I am buying this undervalued stock on the premises that this company's other assets other than the Washington Post are helping to produce profit margins of 8 to 9%, year in, year out.
Lastly, with the Democrats sharing power, I believe investigative reporting will once again flourish and that partisan politics will lead to many big headlines which sell newspapers.
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greenwave3
(96.27)
Submitted: 1/31/2009 8:53:41 PM :
Start Price:
$380.13
WPO Score:
+28.64
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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herbs814
(36.82)
Submitted: 8/18/2009 6:51:53 PM :
Start Price:
$450.87
WPO Score:
+20.83
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:
+18.85
There is less momentum, less volume, and less buying going on. We are in the last part of this rally.
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Jivy2008
(65.37)
Submitted: 5/6/2008 7:31:02 PM :
Start Price:
$642.13
WPO Score:
-16.06
Purchase on dips!
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kevrose31
(70.95)
Submitted: 11/6/2007 11:04:35 PM :
Start Price:
$830.27
WPO Score:
-27.05
buffet and gates
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kundanb
(< 20)
Submitted: 9/19/2006 8:58:39 PM :
Start Price:
$707.94
WPO Score:
-30.42
education related business is growing at a phenomenal rate
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LaughingRaven
(92.16)
Submitted: 9/26/2006 12:02:55 AM :
Start Price:
$686.95
WPO Score:
-28.18
They're a solid and well-diversified cash-generating company, with plenty of avenues to grow in the coming decades.
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MissHam2001
(61.37)
Submitted: 11/2/2007 3:13:08 PM :
Start Price:
$768.51
WPO Score:
-23.25
Washington Post owns some great businesses including a career search engine and other publications, not to forget, the paper of the town, The Washington Post. This stock goes WAY up on any given day. Get in on the low low and watch this stock give some great returns. Whenever it goes down, it still jumps way up.
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mjan706
(< 20)
Submitted: 9/21/2008 6:57:02 PM :
Start Price:
$577.97
WPO Score:
-19.27
One of Buffett's major holdings.
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MViscio1
(98.73)
Submitted: 10/23/2008 1:59:01 PM :
Start Price:
$321.98
WPO Score:
-1.54
ITS A BIG NEWSPAPER CO
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NetscribeMedia
(20.98)
Submitted: 12/29/2006 5:15:34 AM :
Start Price:
$719.73
WPO Score:
-24.96
The Washington Post Company is a diversified media and education company. Its media operations consist of newspaper publishing (mainly The Washington Post), television broadcasting, magazine publishing (mainly Newsweek magazine), and the ownership and operation of cable television systems. The company’s Kaplan subsidiary provides a wide variety of educational services and contributes nearly 40% of revenues.
With the internet revolutionizing the media industry, more publishing companies are turning their attention towards their internet operations, with 12 to 15% of revenues expected to come from this area by 2010. The company has been performing well in their online operations with both overall and advertising revenues rising in 2006. However the publishing division revenues have been on the decline due to reduced advertising revenue at Washington Post and low circulation.
With the Hispanic population in America expected to double to 19.4 million in 2020 and a booming population of Hispanics in the treasured 18-to-35 demographic, the company might want to do a slight rethink of its target audience. It already operates El Tiempo Latino a free weekly Spanish language newspaper, which it acquired in 2004, aimed at the Hispanic population in 3 states.
The company has also sold off PostNewsweek Tech Media group in December, which was performing below par in 2006. On a positive note, the revenues from educational services represented by Kaplan Inc have witnessed a 20% increase in 2006. The company seems to be intent on expanding Kaplan with 6 acquisitions recently completed by this October. In the future they might want to concentrate more on online educational courses, as nearly 2 million students are enrolling for online courses each year and is well poised to see a growth of around 25% in the coming years. Increasing investments in the growing Kaplan (educational) segment is a good indicator that the company will outperform the market over the next one year.
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