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The Elusive One Bad Quarter

On December 20, 2017 By Walter Kirchberger, CFA
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From the Sigma Investment Counselors blog

Early in my career, a very successful investor shared this bit of advice with me. His logic follows: Companies do not like to report poor results or results that fall short of Wall Street estimates.

Financial statements, both income and balance sheets, include a significant [...]

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With Senate Bill Passage, BetterInvesting Committee Urges Individual Investors to Contact Representatives in Congress About FIFO Provision

On December 7, 2017 By BetterInvesting, Empowering Investors Since 1951
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Now that the Senate tax bill has passed and is in the reconciliation process with the House tax bill, the Individual Investor Advocacy Committee of BetterInvesting’s board of directors encourages individual investors to share with their representatives in Congress their view of a controversial proposal in the Senate tax bill that could result in [...]

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Year-Over-Year, Sequential Results Both Yield Clues About Company Performance

On May 3, 2017 By Walter Kirchberger, CFA
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This was first published at Sigma Investment Counselors.

Investors typically look at quarterly and annual reported operating results on a year-over-year basis. In other words, what was the percentage change compared to the prior year period?

It is important to also consider sequential change. That is, what was the change compared to the [...]

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Snap Inc.’s Disregard for Shareholder Rights

On March 28, 2017 By Walter Kirchberger, Contributor, BetterInvesting Magazine
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From the Sigma Investment Counselors blog

According to Wikipedia, corporate governance broadly refers to the mechanisms, processes and relations by which corporations are controlled and directed. Governance structures are intended to identify the distribution of rights and responsibilities among different stakeholders, including boards of directors, management, employees, shareholders, creditors, auditors, regulators and others.

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The Meritage Hospitality Group Reports a 79 Percent Increase in Net Earnings in Second Quarter; Company to Present at BetterInvesting’s Chicago Investor Expo

On July 20, 2015 By BetterInvesting, Empowering Investors Since 1951
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Meritage Hospitality Group, Inc., a Grand Rapids, Mich., based restaurant operator, recently reported that its second quarter net earnings increased 79.1 percent to $2.2 million from $1.2 million for the same period last year. The quarter ended June 28.

Meritage will be a presenter at the Chicago Investor Expo, a Sept 12 [...]

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Meritage Hospitality Group, a Recent Presenter at the Virtual Investor Conference, Increases its Special Dividend by 100 Percent

On May 29, 2015 By BetterInvesting, Empowering Investors Since 1951
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Meritage Hospitality Group, Inc. (OTCQX: MHGU) of Grand Rapids, Mich., one of the nation’s leading restaurant operators, recently announced that its board of directors approved a special dividend of $0.03 per share payable on June 26 to shareholders of record on June 5, 2015.

Meritage was a presenter at a recent Virtual Investor Conference, [...]

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MIT Professor Discovers a Way to Predict Whether a Company’s Earnings Will Be Good or Bad

On October 29, 2014 By BetterInvesting, Empowering Investors Since 1951
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Can’t wait to get home to share some good news? Or maybe you’re skulking somewhere, dreading to drop the bomb about something not so cheery? Then you’re just like companies issuing their earnings reports, finds an MIT Sloan School of Management assistant professor who studied the corporate earnings calendars of 19,000 businesses.

Eric So writes [...]

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‘Wall Street Journal’ Opinion Piece Compares Small-Time Investors to Rodney Dangerfield — They Get No Respect

On October 9, 2014 By BetterInvesting, Empowering Investors Since 1951
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Are individual investors the Rodney Dangerfields of corporate governance? John Endean thinks so. The president of the American Business Conference says in a recent opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal that the little guys get no respect because it’s thought that the shares they own are too few and they’re too unwilling [...]

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Corporate Directors Try to Get By on $900/Hour

On October 8, 2014 By Thomas D. Saler, Contributor, BetterInvesting Magazine
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In a demand-driven, market-based economy, it’s widely assumed that consumers and businesses ultimately get what they pay for.

But as any shareholder in a company whose fortunes have been undermined by managerial shortcomings knows all too well, that maxim isn’t always true. And while the focus of investor antipathy in such cases generally is [...]

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Even Growth Investors Can Learn to Love Dividends

On July 2, 2014 By Adam Ritt, Director of Communications
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For a long time many growth investors have been in one of two camps regarding dividends. On one side are investors who believe that a penny issued as a dividend is a penny that can’t be used to fuel expansion. And when we see companies beginning to issue dividends, the argument goes, that’s often [...]

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