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August 28. 2009: Tax Credit Schemes For Green, Both Ways

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 19:31:31 GMT

Tax Credits for a greener America are in fashion. In each case, we may as well admit up front that these type of programs amount to taking money from all taxpayers to fund pet environmental whimsy of the environmental crowd. The State of Florida, amongst others, had rebate programs to save the planet in place until it ran out of money. The solution? Use federal stimulus money to front it. Astute investors and consumers will take advantage of these programs to a certain degree, hopefully after reading the fine print (such as the up to $4500 of TAXABLE income that was credited to those who transacted in the recent vehicle "clunker" program).[More...]

Phoenix Rising?

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 04:47:00 GMT

With the US equity market averages either probing or breaking down through their November lows, is it time to buy Phoenix stocks? Others have picked up on that theme, with the latest being a Minyanville article on buying beaten up stocks. With that in mind, I screened the US market for stocks with the following characteristics: Stock price between $1 and $5 (low-priced stocks)Down at least 80% from a year ago (beaten up)Market cap of $100 million or more (were once "real" companies)Net insider buying in the last six months (some downside protection from insider activity) This screen gives us a list of low-priced[More...]

Hedge Fund Best Ideas and Consensus Follow-Up

Thu, 15 Jan 2009 21:00:00 GMT

In late 2006 I proposed tracking a portfolio of 10 hedge fund managers I considered to be great stockpickers. In sounded good to me in theory, but I always like to let the data speak for itself so I then went and backtested two strategies based on their 13F filings. Top Holdings - This selected the top 2 holdings from each manager to form a portfolio of 20 holdings. Consensus - This selected the most popular ten holdings among the managers. The ten managers were: Baupost Group Blue Ridge Capital Warren Buffett Eminence Capital Greenlight Capital Lone Pine Capital Maverick Capital Okumus Capital Private Capital Tiger Global This process literally took me and a co-worker a month to complete by hand. I found that these two naive strategies of[More...]

Services Stocks Lag Within Energy

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 14:21:00 GMT

During the most recent economic and market downturn the most unlikely of sub-sectors has been the worst under-performer within the Energy Sector. Services stocks, often time viewed as stalwarts within the industry, have been absolutely destroyed this year with some of the mega-caps like Schlumberger Ltd. (SLB: 43.92, 0.00 (0.00%)) leading the way. This is extremely atypical of the energy sector, and many investors are still left wondering why exactly[More...]

Seth Klarman, David Einhorn & Meryl Witmer Q3 2008 Holdings

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:59:00 GMT

Seth Klarman is one of the more secretive money managers out there so I don’t know what returns Baupost has generated in 2008. Here are some recent stories with his thoughts on current market conditions. Looking at his SEC filing, I see a few interesting moves: Klarman didn’t open any bold new positions other than $61M (...)[More...]

Virtual Funds: Energy Fund's Ranking/Performance in Q3 '08 And Overall

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 06:07:00 GMT

This has been a tough year and a very tough 3rd quarter for all sectors. Energy was affected as much if not worse than most of the other sectors. Here I will detail the performance of the virtual mutual fund I've set up for the Energy sector on the Marketocracy web site. Orange line in the chart below shows how my Energy Fund has performed relative to the m100 (a collective Marketocracy fund that uses picks from the top 100 members), S&P 500, Dow Jones Index, and Nasdaq. [More...]

Hope The Lows Will Hold

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 13:43:00 GMT

Good morning. Investors are hoping that last week's lows are going to hold and premarket futures are pointing to a positive open. A large batch of earnings reports (see MER, C, & NOK, UNH, BAX, UTX, EBAY), a better than expected CPI reading and falling jobless claims have set the positive tone in addition to rumors that we're going to see more global rate cuts and more interventions sooner rather than later. The credit markets are showing [More...]

Worst Performers Over Last Quarter

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 06:14:00 GMT

And here is the list of worst perfomers... keep in mind this is over a 90 day period. I show 136 stocks that lost at least 45% in the previous quarter. Very bad. The list is obvious - anything global growth, commodity related or the "dead" financial types.CriteriaMarket capitalization $1.25B+Average trading volume 100K+Stock price $0+Return this month -45%+Green names we own, blue names we have owned in the past or discussed in the blog. In orange I listed names we owned at some point during the quarter.[More...]

Helix Energy Solutions: The Little Engine That Could

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:45:00 GMT

The 2008 performance of the Energy sector has been very exciting due to the wide range of performances within the sub-sectors and the volatile ride of oil. During the rally that took place from January through June the refiners got slaughtered, the explor[More...]

Few Thoughts and a Look at the Earnings in the Coming Week

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 05:15:00 GMT

WITH RESPECT TO THE US’ GDP GROWTH, THE NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH SEES A SIGNIFICANT DECLINE IN ECONOMIC ACTITIVY SPREAD ACROSS THE ECONOMY, WHICH WILL LAST MORE THAN A FEW MONTHS - WSJ - According to Robert Hall, economist at Stanford University, US economic data that has been reported provide (...)[More...]

ERT discovers oil and gas in Gulf of Mexico

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 05:48:00 GMT

Helix Energy Solutions Group has announced that its wholly owned subsidiary Energy Resource Technology GOM has made a Gulf of Mexico deepwater oil and gas discovery at its Jake prospect, located in Green Canyon Block 490.
Following the discovery, Helix's estimate for this prospect is 50 billion cubic feet equivalent to 75 billion cubic feet equivalent gross (100%), on a proved, probable, possible basis.
Energy Resource Technology GOM (ERT) owns a 25% working interest in both the discovery well and Green Canyon Block 490.

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August 28. 2009: Tax Credit Schemes For Green, Both Ways

Phoenix Rising?

Hedge Fund Best Ideas and Consensus Follow-Up

Services Stocks Lag Within Energy

Seth Klarman, David Einhorn & Meryl Witmer Q3 2008 Holdings

Virtual Funds: Energy Fund's Ranking/Performance in Q3 '08 And Overall

Hope The Lows Will Hold

Worst Performers Over Last Quarter

Helix Energy Solutions: The Little Engine That Could

Few Thoughts and a Look at the Earnings in the Coming Week

ERT discovers oil and gas in Gulf of Mexico

Helix shares rise on oil and gas discoveries

Helix ESG Announces Gulf of Mexico Discoveries

Caesar Pipelay Vessel Joins Helix ESG Fleet

Cal Dive Reports Third Quarter 2009 Results

Helix Reports Second Quarter 2009 Results

BenchmarkJournal.Com Free Analyst Review for WL, URS, AVY, HLX, MBT and PHG

Helix to Review Second Quarter 2009 Results with Investors

Helix to Present at Morgan Stanley Energy Conference

Helix Announces Share Repurchase Plan

Helix Prices Secondary Public Offering of Cal Dive Common Stock

Helix to Commence Secondary Public Offering of Cal Dive Common Stock

Form 4 DUROC-DANNER BERNARD J For: Oct 01 (10K)

Form 4 Heijermans Bart H For: Sep 01 (10K)

Form 4 HELIX ENERGY SOLUTIONS For: Jul 01 Filed by: MURPHY ROBERT P (10K)

Form 4 TRIPODO ANTHONY For: Jun 25 (10K)

Form 4 PORTER T WILLIAM For: May 13 (10K)

Form 4 DUROC-DANNER BERNARD J For: Apr 01 (10K)

Form 4 QUINN NANCY K For: Mar 18 (10K)

Form 4/A AHALT GORDON F For: Mar 02 (10K)

Form 4 TRIPODO ANTHONY For: Mar 05 (10K)

Form 4 KRATZ OWEN E For: Mar 05 (10K)