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Sometimes, we run into something really unusual in the filings. Periodically, filings intersect with current events far from the usual realm of corporate and financial headlines. And then there those rare occasions that we get both in the same document. That’s what we found tacked on to the end of the 10-Q that Medicis Pharmaceutical (MRX) filed [...]

If you’ve ever wondered what it would look like if the management of a company imploded, look no further than Dynegy (DYN), the electric utility that, once, kept company with the likes of Enron (in everything from the go-go energy bubble it burst, to allegations of price manipulation in California in 2000). In recent months, [...]

It seems slightly incongruous that a company which owns a 50% stake in Madonna’s worldly “Material Girl” brand also owns an 80% stake in the nostalgically innocent Peanuts brand. But the company involved, Iconix Brand Group, Inc. (ICON) has a big, diversified empire. Following its 1993 purchase of Candie’s, Iconix continued to grow; in fact, it [...]