I believe in cycles; there will be another recession (sooner rather than later is my personal belief). There will be another major stock market correction at the end of which will be glorious buying opportunities. We are coming to the end of another debt super cycle (see the book This Time is Different; Eight Centuries […]
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Serendipitously, I hear this is also the last season of the TV show “The Walking Dead.” But while I expect that TV franchise to continue in some form, the same can’t be said for Sears. I know it’s supposed to be a restructuring, but no amount of financial engineering can compensate for Sears’ lack of
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Back on September 11, due to some speculation in the media, Amer Sports confirmed that it had “…received a non-binding preliminary indication of interest…from a consortium comprising ANTA Sports Products Limited and the Asian private equity firm FountainVest Partners…” to buy all of Amer Sports’ shares at a cash price of forty Euros per share.
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From time to time, just for fun, I review public filings of companies I haven’t written about. Hibbett Sports, with 1059 stores in 35 states at the end of their August 4th quarter, is one of those companies. The quote in the title got my attention, to put it mildly. It’s not quite as bad