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Sometimes “no” really means “no,” and that seems to be the case in Airgas, Inc.’s (ARG) repeated rejection of Air Products & Chemicals, Inc.’s (APD) unsolicited takeover attempts. It’s not exactly a David and Goliath situation, but Air Products – with a market cap of $14.66 billion – is practically three times as large as [...]
Companies often shower executives with gifts while showing them the door — cash, a year or two of health-care benefits, even a car or cell-phone, plus, of course, accelerated options and restricted stock. But those gifts come with strings. Most typically, that means a non-compete clause (you can’t take a nice severance package and go [...]
While we don’t usually pay much attention to companies under $250M in market cap, there was something about the 10-K filed by tiny Industry Concept Holdings (INHL) that caught our attention. It wasn’t just because it was filed late on Friday on a day when the market was closed, though that certainly piqued our initial [...]
Home Depot (HD) filed its 10K late yesterday and we’ve taken a closer look at the filing which includes some interesting new disclosures.
Gas prices may be much lower than they were during the summer of 2008, when they were approaching $5 a gallon in many parts of the country. But we couldn’t help but think about gas prices as we dipped into the 10-K that Exxon Mobil (XOM) filed on Friday. In the filing, which was significantly [...]
