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Nice timing at Nutrisystem…

Tuesday, October 6th, 2009

Late yesterday, Nutrisystem (NTRI) announced a deal with Wal-Mart Stores (WMT) to provide a 14-day starter program that will be available in over 3,200 stores. Because this is the first time that Nutrisystem products will be available in retail stores (as opposed to those incessant commercials) and because it’s Wal-Mart, Nutrisystem stock jumped over 20% [...]

Form 4 funnies…

Monday, July 27th, 2009

It’s always interesting to me when people study Form 4s intensely, trying to detect various patterns based on the sales and purchases made by top executives and directors. Various services, including the one I use most often — Insider Score — do a great job at parsing these filings. But I’m still not all that [...]

Life at the margins…

Thursday, October 16th, 2008

Over the past few days, we’ve read numerous stories about executives being forced to sell shares as a result of margin calls (see here and here). Late yesterday, Williams Sonoma (WSM) Chairman and CEO W. Howard Lester (who last time we footnoted him was entering into a deal to buy the company’s Bombardier jet) disclosed [...]