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Just in case you missed the news on Thursday morning due to pre-holiday merry-making, Jo-Ann Stores (JAS) announced that they were going private. Leonard Green & Partners agreed to acquire the chain of craft stores for $61 a share, which sent the stock up over 32% in one day. But the news shouldn’t come as [...]
Now that Q season is officially over and my eyes are beginning to adjust to normal-size print again (as opposed to 8 point fonts), we’re going to try something new and host a conference call to summarize some of the things we’ve found in the third quarter Qs. I’ll be hosting the call on Friday [...]
For my seventh wedding anniversary, I gave Mr. Footnoted a giant tube of Cortisone cream, the type that you can only buy at a Costco or BJs. It was a joke based on the so-called “Seven Year Itch” that causes some marriages to go stale. I mention this because today happens to be the seventh [...]
In addition to reading the filings and keeping things hopping on this site, we’ve been busy this week with another project – sharing the spirit of footnoted.com with Morningstar’s readers. When Michelle launched footnoted almost seven years ago, she did it with the hope that she could help others learn how to navigate the fine [...]
Recently, M&A rumors have again begun circulating around TiVo (TIVO). When similar rumors were swirling in early April, we warned our FootnotedPro subscribers that signals in the company’s filings didn’t really mesh with the idea of an imminent deal. Since then, TiVo shares have dropped more than 50%, badly trailing the NASDAQ. What did we see [...]
