Author Archive | Aaron Stackhouse

Asta Funding, (NASDAQ:ASTA), is in the business of acquiring, servicing, and collecting distressed consumer receivables – primarily credit card receivables. I wrote a few articles about Asta in Dec 2009 – Jan 2010 on my previous blog here, here, and here. Since that time, it has traded as low as $6.00 and as high as […]

Yesterday evening I posted an article titled “Accounting Irregularities at L&L Energy.” In it I discussed my concerns regarding certain SEC filings of L&L Energy (LLEN). I had originally intended to post several follow up articles focusing on other aspects of the company, but in light of today’s events I no longer plan to continue […]

Author has posted a follow up to this post here. L&L Energy, Inc, (NASDAQ: LLEN) is in the business of coal mining, washing, coking, and wholesaling. Although its operations are conducted in China, the company is headquartered in Seattle, WA. As of 5/20/11, the company had a market cap of $200 MM. The stock has […]

One of the most interesting investment stories to come out in the past year is the debate over The St. Joe Company. On the long side, and 30% stockholder, we have Bruce Berkowitz and his mutual fund, Fairholme Funds, Inc. In 2010, Morningstar named Mr. Berkowitz their Domestic-Stock Fund Manager of the Decade. And it’s […]

This is reposted from my original blog over at http://valueinvestorblog.wordpress.com/. I am in the process of migrating over to Totally Invested! Just a quick update… On July 17, 2009, I ran a Yahoo Finance stock screen for stocks trading at a low P/B and relatively high cash per share. I then looked at the individual […]