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David Einhorn Greenlight Capital is short The St. Joe Company (NYSE: JOE), as he believes the company is a scheme. JOE's management used to talk about how much land was a mile from beach, now it talks about how the land is 40 miles from airport. Bulls of JOE are saying Luecadia (NYSE: LUK) bought...

Compass Diversified Holdings (Nasdaq: CODI) announced today that its Board of Directors has declared a quarterly cash distribution of $0.34 per share. The distribution for the three months ended September 30, 2010 is payable on October 29, 2010 to all holders of record as of October 22, 2010. Joe...

PICO Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: PICO) has entered into definitive agreements to build and operate a canola processing plant with an integrated refinery near Hallock, Minnesota. The plant will process up to 365,000 tons of canola seed annually, and produce over 280 million pounds of high value, food...

Shares of Leucadia National Corporation (NYSE: LUK) are lower on the session by 1.52%, currently trading at $22.75. The stock has been moving largely sideways for the past four months, though has been attractive bull volume as of late. Options traders are picking up some downside protection on the...

Leucadia National Corporation (LUK) sued Fortescue Metals Group Ltd., an Australian iron-ore miner, its subsidiary Chichester Metals Pty Ltd., and Andrew Forrest, its CEO in an effort to stop them from raising more funds through an issue of additional subordinated notes.   Fortescue Metals Group...

In a Form 4 filed after the bell today, Compass Diversified Holdings (NASDAQ: CODI) CEO, Joseph I. Massoud, reported that he purchased 10,000 shares of CODI on August 19th for an average price of $14.26. The transaction totaled $142,633. Mr. Massoud owns 181,191 direct and 298,791 indirect shares...

Leucadia National Corporation (LUK) reported its financial results for the second quarter of 2010. The company generated a net loss of $244.7 million, or $1.01 per share during the quarter compared with net earnings of $411.0 million, or $1.67 per share in the second quarter of 2009. The decline...

Ampal-American Israel Corporation (NASDAQ: AMPL) today announced financial results for the first quarter ended June 30, 2010. For the quarter ended June 30, 2010, Ampal recorded revenues of $207.1 million, compared to revenues of $95.3 million for the corresponding period in 2009. Net loss for the...

You probably don't recognize this as one of my stock screens that I have used in the past, that is because I just created it this weekend. For both technical and fundamental traders/investors this stock screen carries a lot of importance. Almost every stock out there has at least a firm or two...

Below are the top 5 small-cap financial stocks on the NASDAQ in terms of revenue expectations. Catalyst Health Solutions Inc (NASDAQ: CHSI) is expected to generate revenue of $3.47 billion in the current year. CHSI’s quarterly earnings grew by 26.10% year-over-year. Selective Insurance Group Inc (...

Blockbuster, Inc (NYSE: BBI), nearly ruined by the high cost of its store network and withering from competition from NetFlix (NYSE: NFLX) and the kiosk operator Redbox, posted another quarter of dismal results. The rental chain’s net loss for the first quarter of 2010 was $65.4 million, or $0.33...

Here is our latest update on the stock trading technique called 'Buying Dividends'. This is the process of buying stocks before the ex dividend date and selling the stock shortly after the ex date at about the same price, yet still being entitled to the dividend. This technique generally works only...