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The wrong kind of charge at Tesla Motors…

Thursday, June 17th, 2010

Taking a private company public involves tremendous financial and human resources, as well as a lot of time.  It’s common to see several versions of a registration statement before the company finally sells its stock to the public, and that is certainly true for Tesla Motors, Inc., which has now filed five amendments to the registration [...]

More guns, less butter?

Wednesday, October 21st, 2009

Sorry — the economics major in me came out in the headline. But it’s the first thing that I thought about after skimming the S-1 that Freedom Group filed earlier today. You can read news reports of the filing here and here. We’ve only skimmed the filing, but just like Smith & Wesson, Freedom Group [...]

Life in the burbs…

Wednesday, December 24th, 2008

A few years ago, friends of mine were going through a rough patch in their marriage because she was spending too much time on a site called Adult Friend Finder (no link included for firewall reasons) — something that the husband only found out about after hiring a private detective. I was fascinated with the [...]

Solera execs go shopping for perks…

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

Yesterday, Solera (SLH) filed this 8K which despite being only 1 paragraph, was chock full of new perks for the company’s top executives: The benefits approved by the Committee include increased supplemental life and long-term disability insurance, annual physical exams, company automobile benefit, country club fees (solely for the Chief Executive Officer), and, assuming year [...]

Are Trimas execs spending too much time on the links?

Monday, April 7th, 2008

Last May, Trimas (TRS) went public at $11 a share. By October, the stock was trading at $16, which clearly made it a successful IPO. But in November, things started going down hill and they’ve been going in that direction ever since: the stock has lost nearly 2/3 since then, even though there hasn’t been [...]