Free offer from the Manualofideas.com
The Manual of Ideas put out a free offer of their monthly publication. I had never heard of them before but the information in the free publication is incredible. Manual of Ideas gives investing ideas, goes over valuation and analysis of those companies, giving three different valuations of the companies, talks about the risks of the company going forward, and shows you holdings of top hedge fund managers that you could get more ideas from.
At the very least I highly recommend that you should download the free publication to get some ideas to research, and look at how they value and analyze companies to see what we could all be doing better and what we might be missing from our analysis.
Too bad that if you like MoI, which I do a lot, is pretty expensive if you want to subscribe to it. The price for one year of subscription to the regular monthly publication is just under $1300.
I will learn from the free publication and when I am able to start my own firm or work for someone else, this is going to be one of the first things I buy to get ideas from.
More Vivendi News
This article on Vivendi again talks about which of their businesses they should sell or spin-off and lists some of the companies that they are talking with about the potential sale.
The main thing that caught my eye is that they are talking with Microsoft to see if they are interested in buying Activision Blizzard.
Any reasonable sale of ATVI would be good for Vivendi shareholders. However, the only way Microsoft buying ATVI could be good for the console gaming industry would be if it meant some kind of gaming merger between the Playstation and Xbox brands, eventually leading to a one console future, and the gamers winning out.
Most likely though, if Microsoft were to buy ATVI that would probably lead to Sony having to buy EA, and each company trying to acquire the best gaming companies they could to keep them out of the hands of the other. A very bad scenario for the gamers.
Sony and Microsoft have been pretty antagonistic to each other over the past decade when it has come to their consoles, so although I hope there is some kind of console merger with a one console future, at this time I do not see that happening.
Lessons from a 15-bagger
This article is from the Motley Fool and goes over some of the original reasons they bought Amazon in 2002 and how since then the stock is up almost 1500%.
Any stock pick that goes up by that amount should be analyzed and learned from.
Feel free to post your thoughts. Enjoy
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