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Starbucks' (Nasdaq: SBUX  ) plans in the single-serve coffee market brewed up a ton of rumors recently, but the coffee giant's moves now sound more than a little lukewarm. That's because Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (Nasdaq: GMCR  ) is partnering up with rival Dunkin' Donuts in the single-serve coffee market.

As it stands, Green Mountain's already got agreements with companies like Caribou (Nasdaq: CBOU  ) , JM Smucker's (NYSE: SJM  ) Folgers and Millstone, Hain Celestial (Nasdaq: HAIN  ) , Newman's Own, and many others to provide K-Cups for its Keurig single-serve brewers. Now that it's got Dunkin' Donuts on the list, this fresh cup o' caffeinated competition sounds like a coup for Green Mountain -- at Starbucks' expense.

Starbucks recently announced a deal to provide single-serving coffee in hotel rooms through Courtesy Products, but that hardly sounds exciting by comparison. Many investors had really wanted to hear that Starbucks and Green Mountain would team up with K-Cups, but it's increasingly sounding like Starbucks will go it alone in the single-serve market.

Meanwhile, Dunkin' Donuts appears to enjoy a cult following that can't bear to drink Starbucks, which could make this a major win for Green Mountain and its Keurig brewers. That said, the Dunkin' Donuts K-Cups will only be available in the donut chain's stores, which could limit the impact for the time being.

Green Mountain stock's too expensive for my blood, packing major risks to boot. However, its deal with Dunkin' certainly could lure in new customers while slam-dunking some of Starbucks' plans for a better foothold in the single-serve market. After all, the more Keurig single-cup brewers installed in consumers' households, the less potential customers there are to wander into Starbucks' stores on a regular basis, or even to buy Via instant coffee, its own version of a single-serve convenient cup.

What do you think of this development? Brew up some fresh insights in the comments box below.

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  • Report this Comment On February 25, 2011, at 6:40 PM, Glycomix wrote:

    Ms. Lomax:

    I'm mystified. Are you able to explain why Green Mountain Coffee stock price went up 22% when it had earnings and reporting problems?

    Its earnings margin is a unremarkable 4%. Google finance income statement indicates that Green Mountain's reported net income has gone to almost nothing over the last two quarters. (Click on the Income sheet in the following link.)

    Since GMCR isn't making money, it has to get operating funds from somewhere. The trend from the balance sheet shows a disturbing trend. Money from investors have disappeared and it is getting most of its funds for day to day operations from bank loans. The balance sheet show that to supply operating funds, debt has increased from around 10% in 2010 Q1 to approximately 25% in Q2 & Q3 of 2010 to just below 50% in the fourth quarter of 2010. (To see what I'm talking about, click on the Balance Sheet in the following link: )

    Although Green Mountain has enough cash to easily cover it's debts, Finviz reports that Green Mountain Coffee's total Debt to Equity Ratio is high: 1.15.

    As you've mention in this article, in addition to its financial difficulties, Green Mountain is under SEC scrutiny for a delay in filing its quarterly earning report.

    Considering that it is losing money and has reporting problems, I don't understand why Green Mountain Roaster's stock increased 31% in two weeks: from $33.25 on Feb 2 to $43.85 on Feb 14, 2011. Like the rest of the market, GMCR has declined in the past week. However, its stock price on Friday Feb 25 at market close today was $40.82 and has increased in after-hours trading. That's still a 22% increase in the past three weeks.

  • Report this Comment On February 25, 2011, at 7:29 PM, LQM2 wrote:

    Ms Lomax:

    Very insightful article, as you point out GMCR is in an excellent position and SBUX is playing a weak hand. By going it alone SBUX is overestimating the strength of their customer relationships.

    Glycomix and many others are mystified because they insist on using slow growth metrics with a hypergrowth company. If GMCR loses money on the Keurig and has a big positive NPV on the K's, I want them to grow so fast they don't make any money in the current period!!! Grab share now!!They'll make plenty later when growth stabilizes.

  • Report this Comment On February 25, 2011, at 7:33 PM, vtphotog wrote:

    I am a longtime GMCR invester. Due some due diligence, forget the headlines. I am so glad GMCR did not hook-up with Starbucks. GMCR is a great company with amazing management. Starbucks has been a trainwreck for the last 5 years. GMCR sold their retail stores 15 years ago, Starbucks put in so many stores, some barely a block away from each other, how dumb is that.

    Return for 5 years, GMCR is 1400%, Starbucks is minus 6%. This is not a new story. 1 year return for GMCR is 48%, 3 year is 480%. People are still focusing that it's an expensive stock. It's always been an expensive stock. It's a small cap, not unusual. Sometimes the expensive one are the best ones.

    The company is going thru some changes, the constant banter by the moronic talking heads is hurting the stock, providing some buying windows. As Jim Kramer says " they know nothing". Several MF articles written in the last couple of weeks by, with all due respect, fools. Look at the % of institutional investors. It's not rocket science why GMCR has been a great investment story for years.

  • Report this Comment On February 26, 2011, at 3:02 PM, stampking74 wrote:

    I still think a deal is in the works with SBUX. I could be wrong but that's my 2 cents.

  • Report this Comment On February 27, 2011, at 9:13 AM, PhilHershberg wrote:

    There have been a great many negative moments in the past 12 years that I have been invested in GMCR. It would be totally impossible for me to even start listing those. But, you can get a good idea by simply looking at GMCR's share price during the past year, since February 2010. See those three big down moves? Well, each of them was secondary to some bad company news.

    Nevertheless, GMCR was the number one stock price gainer among American stocks from 1999-2009, increasing almost 150 times. That not too shabby return is continuing today.

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NEW YORK (AP) -- Natural gas rose 3 percent, to the highest level since November, as the government said supplies of the fuel are nearly 20 percent below year-ago levels.

Oil rose slightly after positive U.S. jobs data, while the average price for a gallon of gasoline slipped back to $3.70.

Natural gas futures gained 10 cents, or 2.7 percent, to $3.82 per 1,000 cubic feet in afternoon trading. The government reported that natural gas in storage shrank by 145 billion cubic feet to 1.938 trillion cubic feet for the week ended March 8. That's 18.5 percent below last year's level, although still 11 percent above the five-year average. Booming production created a glut that last year dropped natural gas to a decade low price below $2.

The price for natural gas has declined about 17 percent in three weeks as supplies dropped. Addison Armstrong, senior director of market research at Tradition Energy, says forecasts for cold weather through the end of March in the nation's primary gas-consuming areas have helped as well.

Oil rose slightly Thursday as U.S. employment data supported the market, offsetting news about ample crude supplies and worries about the eurozone economy. Weekly U.S. jobless claims fell by a greater-than-anticipated 10,000 to 332,000, helping to sustain hopes over the U.S. labor market.

Benchmark oil for April delivery was up 23 cents to $92.75 a barrel in afternoon trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange.

Brent crude, used to price many kinds of oil imported by U.S. refineries, was up 88 cents to $109.40 a barrel on the ICE Futures exchange in London.

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  • Heating oil was unchanged at $2.92 a gallon.

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Want to make a pretty stock selection? Makeup company Ulta (NASDAQ: ULTA  ) may be just the company to help beautify your portfolio. During its latest earnings call, it revealed that several key financial metrics have jumped impressively.

However, it's one thing to be successful for one quarter, and another to have sustained financial wherewithal. In the video below, Motley Fool contributor Caroline Bennett takes a deeper look at Ulta to determine whether its fiscal beauty is more than just skin deep.

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Insurance provider Lincoln National (NYSE: LNC  ) announced today its third-quarter dividend of $0.12 per share, the same rate it's paid for the past three quarters, after raising the payout 50%, from $0.08 per share.

The board of directors said the quarterly dividend is payable on Nov. 1 to the holders of record at the close of business on Oct. 10. The regular dividend payment equates to a $0.48-per-share annual dividend, yielding 1.1% based on the closing price today of Lincoln National's stock.

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3 Steps to Get From Here to Retired

The toughest part about planning for retirement is dealing with the unknowns. When the big event is decades away, it's impossible to know things like how long you'll live, what sort of mental and physical health you'll be in, what the stock market will do, what inflation will be like, and even whether or not Social Security will still be paying out benefits.

Unfortunately, none of these questions can be answered with any certainty until it's too late to dramatically refine your saving and investing plan. However, with a solid plan that gives you the flexibility to handle life's curve balls, you can dramatically improve your chances of retiring with a portfolio that will keep you comfortable in your golden years.

With that in mind, here are three steps to help you set the foundation for a solid plan -- one that you can adjust as life happens.

1. Set a savings target
Think about what you want to do when you are retired. Will you travel? Move from the suburbs into the city? Become a local philanthropist? Pursue a new or part-time career? Next, put a price tag on your lifestyle -- the amount of money you'll need each year to cover your expenses. It may be a wild guess -- or you can simply start with your current income -- but putting a number down on paper is where you have to start.

Once you have your estimated monthly expenses, subtract from that your anticipated net Social Security check and any monthly pension payments you may get, then multiply the remainder by 300. This is a rough number that tells you how large your total portfolio will need to be to cover your costs. At that size, your portfolio should generate enough growth and income that you can take advantage of the 4% rule, a solid (if rough) estimate that will help reduce the odds that you'll outlive your money.

While that estimate of 300 times monthly expenses may seem daunting, there are a number programs available to help you build your nest egg faster, which leads us to the next step.

2. Take advantage of every savings plan at your disposal
Start with qualified retirement accounts like IRAs, 401(k)s, 403(b)s, and the government's Thrift Savings Plan. These plans let your money grow tax-deferred, or potentially tax-free, and depending on the type of account, you may even get a tax break immediately for putting money into the account. Another bonus is that many employer-sponsored plans offer a company match for some portion of your contributions. Depending on your tax situation and the level of the match you get, it may give you the opportunity to instantly double your money, which will go a long way.

Of course, if you haven't been saving, it's hard to go from $0 to $1,000 per month in savings overnight. Don't get discouraged. Instead of an all-or-nothing approach, focus on what you can start with right now, and then ramp up if you're able to reduce your spending or increase your income over time.

The table below looks at the monthly contribution needed to reach $1 million by retirement depending on different returns and time frames. As you can see, it's important to get started as quickly as you can, even if you can't spare the total right away:

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Building and maintaining a nest egg is a long-term commitment. Between now and retirement (and beyond), life happens, and when it does, be ready to make course corrections to reach your goals.

Let's say you are 10% shy of your savings goal when you reach retirement age. You can remedy that by working another year or two in order to give your money more time to grow (and perhaps increase your Social Security benefit, too). Or maybe you decide that you're ready to retire earlier than you planned. In that case, you could consider downsizing your home and lowering other costs in order to retire a few years earlier.

The point is, as you evolve, so should your retirement plan. By following the steps outlined above to build a solid savings foundation, you'll better be able to call the shots as you work toward the golden years you've dreamed of.

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Diamond Offshore's and Seadrill's Recent Annoucements Expose the Truth in the Deepwater Rig Market

Diamond Offshore (NYSE: DO  ) got quite possibly the biggest insult one can get this past week. Statoil cancelled a contract for one of Diamond's ultra-deepwater drillships because it simply wasn't up to the task of handling Statoil's demands. Combine that with the delayed contract talks with Pemex for a Diamond rig and the fact that Seadrill (NYSE: SDRL  ) just signed a five-year deal for one of its newbuilds for a whopping $605,000 per day, and you get an inkling on what is important in the rig market: rig specifications.

Find out more on how the quality of a company's assets are an accurate gauge for the future performance in the rig market today and why that bodes well for Seadrill, Pacific Drilling (NYSE: PACD  ) , and Vantage Drilling (NYSEMKT: VTG  ) by tuning in to the following video.

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eBay Beats Estimates, Raises Guidance

eBay's first quarter lived up to expectations, and then some. Not only did it come in ahead of consensus estimates, but management also raised revenue guidance for the second and third quarters. Billpoint, eBay Motors, and the new Buy It Now feature contributed to the optimism.

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eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) must have been feeling the pressure. Buoyed by a rising market -- helped along by the Fed's surprise rate cut yesterday and several good earnings reports from beleaguered companies -- investors seemed to be expecting it to deliver a solid quarter. After all, the world's number one online auction company had steered clear of the land mines that had caught so many tech companies over the last few weeks. No warnings of missed estimates, no lowered guidance. Heck, a Forbes.com headline today blurted: "eBay Must Impress Spooked Investors." Tough to live up to that, right?

Apparently not. eBay reported first-quarter consolidated net income, excluding certain non-cash and stock related charges, of $30.6 million, or $0.11 a share. That exceeded the consensus estimate by three cents. Consolidated revenue of $154.1 million represents an increase of 79% over the year ago period.

The most telling news, however, is eBay's outlook for the next couple of quarters. Citing strength in newer lines of the business, such as Billpoint and eBay Motors, management expects net revenue to be as much as $10 to $15 million higher than expected through the third quarter. When's the last time you heard of a business guiding higher?

President and CEO Meg Whitman said, "Across all important metrics, we had a great quarter. It's very exciting to see more and more buyers and sellers discovering the value of eBay's global marketplace."

Some of those important metrics include:

  • Gross margin of 82%, up from 73% in the first quarter last year
  • Gross merchandise sales of $1.98 billion, up 72% from last year and 23% from last quarter
  • A registered user base of 29.7 million, up 7.2 million from last quarter
  • 89 million auctions listed during the quarter, an improvement of 12% sequentially and 66% year over year

Any concern about slowing growth in the auction count this quarter should be tempered by a couple of factors. First, eBay raised its listing fees a couple of months ago... something that always has a dampening effect on the number of auctions listed. Second, the new (and very successful) Buy It Now (BIN) feature -- where customers can pay a fixed price for an item before a bid is placed -- has caused many auctions to end early. That obviously cuts downs on the number of auctions that are listed at any one time. The BIN option is being offered on nearly 30% of all auctions.

eBay also announced an expansion of Half.com today, the service that allows customers to buy items like books and videos in a fixed-price, "reverse-auction" format. Half.com will now extend its offerings to include consumer electronic items, computers, trading cards, and sporting goods.

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Many forms of footwear can point to skating as a source of inspiration but not many are as visually impressive and stylish as Vans Authentic trainers. Vans footwear is incredibly popular on both sides of the Atlantic – and for good reason.

Vans Authentic trainers stand out due to their striking design but it is a design which is effortlessly simple in nature but which manages to provide exactly the sort of designer footwear that consumers love. Vans Authentic trainers are available in a number of different styles and colours to suit your own particular preferences and it is fair to say that by far the largest selection of Vans footwear will be found by taking one’s search online.

Vans Authentic Trainers – Taking Skateboarding’s Lead

Skateboarders are now for having their own distinct tastes when it comes to fashion and footwear and it is a look which has found favour with many people. Vans Authentic trainers are one of the cornerstones of the skateboarding look and anyone looking to replicate the look will be hard-pressed to do it without a pair of Vans Authentic trainers in their locker.

Mixing bold colours with striking designs, it is little wonder that Vans Authentic trainers positively fly off the shelves when a new offering reaches the market. It is not just their immensely impressive visual appeal that makes Vans Authentic footwear stand out – they also boast a level of comfort that most other forms of footwear simply can ‘t hold a candle to. If you’re looking to get good value for money when purchasing Vans Authentic trainers, it certainly makes sense to search online in the first instance because this invariably yields much more results for consumers to pick from – and the prices are ordinarily much lower as well.

Vans Authentic trainers have carved out a niche for themselves in the world of men’s designer footwear and they are seen with great regularity on the high streets and skate parks up and down the UK. The classic styling of Vans shoes is something that has set them apart from their competitors for decades now and once you’ve set foot in a pair of Vans Authentic trainers, you won’t look back and will, in all likelihood, add many more pairs to your collection as new varieties hit the market each year.

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'Ramirez now worth €15m-20m'

Bologna midfielder Gaston Ramirez is now worth "at least €15m to €20m", according to his agent Vincenzo d'Ippolito.

The 20-year-old Uruguayan has been one of Serie A's top performers this season and has attracted admiring glances from Italy's big clubs.

Bologna still need to pay Ramirez's former club Penarol two installments of €750,000 to ensure the complete transfer of his rights.

Ramirez is tied to the club until 2015 and the only doubts regarding the payment of his transfer came when Bologna were in financial trouble in the winter.

"Everything is in place with the Uruguayans," said Bologna director of sport Carmine Longo. "I'm willing to bet on it.

"It would be crazy to sell Ramirez right now. He is the best 20-year-old in Europe. He is equal to Alexis Sanchez.

"You'll see that within two years, he will be on Sanchez's level. For this reason, we're not selling Gaston. His price will triple."

Asked to give a valuation, Ramirez's agent said: "At least €15m or €20m."

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Valencia defender Aly Cissokho has welcomed renewed talk of a move to Liverpool, but says no transfer talks have been held.

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The France international has been regularly linked with a switch to England ever since he burst onto the European scene at Porto.

He has kept Premier League suitors waiting - taking in a three-year stint at Lyon before moving to Spain in 2012.

There is, however, every chance that a transfer could be put in place this summer, with financial difficulties at Valencia leaving them open to offers for their prized assets.

Cissokho admits he would welcome the opportunity to experience life at Anfield, but is reluctant to speculate on where his future will lie until a formal approach is made.

The 25-year-old full-back said: "I will not believe that I am going anywhere until I am in Liverpool and having a medical.

"Liverpool is such a great club, so to be linked with them is fantastic. But there is nothing concrete from anyone at the moment.

"If there is an opportunity to join such a club, I will take it. Valencia are a great club, in a great city, but Liverpool are a legendary club."

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The Dark Blues had captain Gary Irvine sent off just 20 minutes into the derby encounter at Tannadice but took the lead through Ryan Conroy's 67th-minute goal.

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Brown said: "To play for 70 minutes with 10 men, we had to defend very well.

"We knew we were not going to get many opportunities but we scored a fantastic goal.

"We caught them on the counter-attack and we hoped we would see it out but Dundee United are a good side and we were at their ground. I just felt for our players at the end.

"At the sending-off, Gary led with his elbow but he just went to win the header.

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Knowlton "Snake" Ames

Knowlton "Snake" Ames

  • Position: Fullback
  • School: Princeton
  • High School: Faribault, MN (Shattuck Military Academy)Lawrenceville, NJ (Lawrenceville Prep)
  • Years: 1886-1889
  • Inducted: 1969
  • Place of Birth: Chicago, IL
  • Date of Birth: May 27, 1868
  • Place of Death: Chicago, IL
  • Date of Death: Dec 23, 1931
  • Height: 5-10
  • Weight: 157

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One of college football's greatest broken-field runners, Knowlton "Snake" Ames was a member of the first All- America team in 1889. Of Ames, Pudge Heffelfinger said, "He was clever at spinning, changing direction and faking the tackler. It was fatal to go for his knees or legs. They wouldn't be there." Ames and his Princeton teammates are credited with being the first team to fully develop the "power sweep." A true football innovator, Ames was perhaps the first player to execute a fake punt and he also developed a unique running style which enabled him to duck tacklers. His speed and elusiveness resulted in many spectacular long runs. In one game alone Ames returned a punt 70 yards for a touchdown, returned another kick 50 yards and ran 105 yards from scrimmage. In Ames' era, football was played on a 110 yard field. Over 100 years since his playing days ended Ames still holds nearly all the Princeton scoring records. In his career, "Snake" scored 730 points, 62 touchdowns and 176 points after touchdowns. In a single game against Pennsylvania he scored 60 points. Ames was a member of Princeton teams that compiled a 35-3-1 record in his four varsity seasons.


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Six months before United Nations (U.N.) climate treaty talks are to unfold in Paris, thousands of business, finance and political leaders are gathering this week in the French capital to “show that low carbon makes good business sense – and a strong global deal means a smart economy.” Convened by The Climate Group, Climate Week Paris features more than 25 high-level events. Tuesday, Global Footprint Network CEO Susan Burns introduced risk metrics and methodology from our ERISC (Environmental Risk in Sovereign Credit) research program to the participants of a full-day event titled “The financial sector and climate change—measuring climate performance and carbon risk.” The event was hosted by ERISC partner la Caisse des Dépôts.

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The fact that climate change is an increasingly prominent issue on the agenda of institutional investors and banks is an encouraging trend. In March 2015, more than 266 investors with over $20 trillion in assets under management had implemented some form of climate change strategy, according to event organizers. However, a survey by the Asset Owners Disclosure Project found that nearly half of the top 500 global asset owners did nothing to protect investments under their stewardship from the threat of climate change.

“The bond market has traditionally been an overlooked portion of the market when it comes to environmental risk, although it totals $41 trillion,” Burns noted. “But interest is growing in looking at decarbonization and climate change in this asset class as well.”

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Vietnam Airlines will open a new route from the northern port city of Hai Phong to the central city of Da Nang on April 28. This is Vietnam Airlines’ 36th domestic air route between 20 provinces and cities across the country.

The national flag carrier will conduct five flights a week on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday, using ATR72 aircraft.

Leaving from Hai Phong and flying to Da Nang, the plane will depart at 20h45 and land at 22h30. From the Da Nang to Hai Phong, the plane will leave at 18h30 and land at 20h45.

The price of a return ticket on the route will range between VND1,500,000-1,700,000.

The opening of this new route aims to promote Vietnam tour and create more favourable conditions for businesses.

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Praise from a bear is praise indeed. Longtime sourpuss Andrew Smithers tells why he has turned, if somewhat grudgingly, to stocks.

Andrew Smithers was, for years, one of London’s most dependable bears. In 1999 he told his alma mater, the University of Cambridge’s Clare College, to get out of stocks. He kept up the bearish attack in a book he coauthored that was serendipitously published in March 2000–the month the Nasdaq stock market peaked. In September 2002, when the S&P 500 was at 916.07, off 40% from its peak, he was telling FORBES that stocks still weren’t cheap enough to buy. He said stocks were overvalued by a third. In July 2007 he told the 100 or so clients of Smithers & Co. that prices were going to fall as credit tightened and corporate share buybacks came to an end.

Smithers isn’t just gloating now, with U.S. stocks off 37% in the past year and a widely quoted index of European stocks down nearly 50% in dollar terms. He’s bullish. He recommends that patient investors–those with a horizon of a few decades–start getting back into equities.

Smithers, 71, spent 27 years at the British investment bank S.G. Warburg (now part of UBS), eventually running its investment operation. In 1961, after studying the economic history of India and Japan at Cambridge, Smithers started buying Japanese shares, convinced that its market was on track to explode because the country had highly educated people and a shortage of capital. He worked in Japan for Warburg starting in 1986, then left the country in 1989, not long before the Nikkei peaked at 38,915. It was a period that shapes his views. Toward the finale of the Japanese bubble he heard people saying that home prices would never go down. He was hearing the same thing from U.S. home buyers two years ago.

In 1989 Smithers opened his own firm, with 12 institutions as clients. And now he tells us that his qualified bullishness is not out of character. “I am a natural optimist,” he insists, noting that while his valuation work showed that stocks were overpriced for some time, he turned bearish only last summer, when he called for prices to fall.

He believes shares have room to fall further over the next six months or more as profit forecasts disappoint and corporate buyers of stocks switch and become sellers of shares. “I think there are going to be some unpleasant profit stories which people aren’t expecting and the market will have a negative reaction,” he says.

Smithers lambasted the first bailout plan offered by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, the one centered on buying bad mortgage paper. Now he thinks governments are on the right track with their efforts to inject equity into banks. He isn’t worried the public spending spree will trigger inflation. However, he warns that a second round of bailouts may be required.

Clare College, where Smithers sits on the investment committee, is buying on margin. The college’s £60 million ($104 million) endowment borrowed £15 million ($26 million) for 40 years to invest in stocks. On Oct. 10, as stocks crashed, the college put £2 million ($3.5 million) to work, buying into Japan’s Nikkei stock index at 8,290 and the S&P at a little over 900. Smithers doesn’t see much point to stock picking, so the college is using index funds. The present plan is to dribble the money in, but if the s&p sinks to 700 it would put all its chips on the table.

“Bear markets tend to last for a long time,” says Smithers. “This one started in 2000, so we may have only a couple of years to go. But we are getting to values where we could see good long-term returns.”

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CCC, CC AND C rated 26.30
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Not Rated 2.68
Equities/Other 1.93
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Convertible Securities 2.55
Common Stock 0.99
Preferred Stock-Non Convertible 0.01
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  Contingency Deferred Sales Load 0.00%
  Redemption Charge 1.00%
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  • 5-Year Compensation
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Jerald G Fishman has been CEO of Analog Devices (ADI) for 15 years. Mr. Fishman has been with the company for 41 years. The 66 year old executive ranks 3 within Semiconductors

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6-Year Average Compensation$9.91 mil6-Year Return Relative To Industry102
6-Year Return Relative To Market100
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Other$5.09 mil$2.50 mil
Stock Gains$5.30 mil$0.56 mil
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Relative to Market103

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Methodology: Compensation rank is based on total compensation for latest fiscal year. Total compensation for each chief executive includes the following: salary and bonuses; other compensation, such as vested restricted stock grants, LTIP payouts and perks; and stock gains, the value realized by exercising stock options. Efficiency rank is based on our chief executive's performance/pay score. Ranks are given only to chief executives who have a six-year tenure and six-year compensation history. The most efficient rank is 1 and least efficient is 206.

Footnotes: Compensation data is from the latest available proxy statements filed through Mar. 23, 2012. Total returns and value of stock owned (including all classes) is based on Mar. 14, 2012 stock price. Compensation percent change is based on combined salary and bonus. Annualized total return during tenure covers the tenure of the executive or from the time of the IPO or available stock history. Relative to market is the ending value of $100 invested in the stock, divided by the ending value of $1 invested in the S & P 500 (a score of 100 = the S & P 500). NA: Not available or not applicable.

1Annualized. 2Four-year total. 3Three-year total. 4Less than 0.01%. 5Prior-year data. 6New chief executive; compensation may be for another executive office. 7Less than $100,000. 8Includes shares indirectly held. *Return is for less than tenure.

Sources: Company SEC filings; Interactive Data, LionShares and Thomson Reuters Fundamentals via FactSet Research Systems; Forbes.


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The 13 Money Mistakes Most Business Owners Continue To Make

For those who’ve beaten the odds to create a successful business, congratulations. But your challenges are only beginning. This is the phase where millions of viable organizations will now trip on their long term planning or will miss the factors that could be bringing greater profitability from current operations their way.

To this point, I would like to introduce Garrett Gunderson, a fellow Salt Lake City entrepreneur I met about six weeks ago as an introuction from a mutual friend (thank you, Hugh Ballou!) Gunderson has built multiple successful companies at the ripe (young) age of 35 and has authored a best selling book, Killing Sacred Cows. The title of Gunderson’s book is a clue to the approach he has taken in advising thousands of business owners and entrepreneurs—many of them in professional service sectors such as the dental and chiropractic industries, in particular—on how to prepare better for eventual outcomes. He also specializes in helping owners optimize their practices to create more income and to discover and eliminate the ways they are inadvertently throwing portions of their money away.

Garrett Gunderson, business strategist, best-selling author, and self-admitted "Money Nerd"

Garrett Gunderson, business strategist, best-selling author, and self-admitted “Money Nerd”

So I invited Gunderson to share the biggest mistakes he sees these businesses making with Forbes Entrepreneurs and to tell us what he advises them to be doing instead. Many of his strategies are counter-intuitive and the results are dramatic, but he assures me that none involve out-of-the-norm investing or exotic tax strategies that could run afoul of the IRS, which I would consider a chance not worth taking. With that caveat, here’s what Gunderson sees most and his suggestions that all of us could be using to manage our entrepreneurial finances better than we are typically (or even notoriously) doing today:

  1. Focusing on the topline, not the bottom line. Entrepreneurs are notorious braggers. If you hear that your competitor has hit $10 million or hired 10,000 employees, your first instinct is to figure out how to top that total, correct? Yet under the covers a much smaller business could be operating at a higher level of profitability and may well be the stronger organization overall. Every dollar that you create and protect as bottom line profit is much more valuable to your business and to you as an owner than the revenue dollar you create at the top. Can you streamline processes? Save on inventory? Save on taxes? These are the more valuable questions you should be asking yourself. But most business owners and operators don’t, or at least they don’t do so with sufficient accuracy and skill.
  2. Diversifying prematurely. Where should you invest your profits? Here’s a novel idea, Gunderson suggests: Why not invest it in your own business and also invest in yourself? “Focus, don’t diversify,” Gunderson says. “Build opportunity for your business by retaining the cash in your business as an opportunity war chest.” Cash is your best first investment, Gunderson maintains, as it allows you to make good choices. When you’re low on cash you accept bad clients. “Time terrorists,” he calls them. But when you have sufficient cash and apply it to the things that you know, you can grow. “Dentists don’t know real estate. I don’t know social media; therefore it’s a bad idea for me to invest in Facebook stock,” Gunderson says. “I understand business and money. It is most valuable to invest in your own business, and after that, invest in the things that you know.” At the end, there are no bad investments, Gunderson says, just bad investors.
  3. Investing in a 401K. Okay, this is clearly one of the sacred cows. The money a business owner invests in a 401K is meant to defer income for retirement as a means of saving taxes (more on that point in item 13). But the investment takes vital dollars that the owner could instead be using to invest in growing the business itself. Gunderson also points to the impact on an owner’s self esteem when the balance in a 401K account decreases: “It isn’t even the losses in the account that harm the business as much as the way business owners feel about themselves and their value and wealth when the account balance is down. It’s like a punch to the face, and they feel (perhaps even rightly) that they have no control.”
  4. Failing to focus on the right value equation. Dollars follow value, Gunderson maintains. The two greatest forms of capital in a business are the mental capital (your product and service expertise) and relationship capital (your audience, platform, organization, clients, family and friends). Mental Capital + Relationship Capital = Financial Capital. When these factors are in balance, the organization can shine. When they’re not aligned, however, the effort to work harder on a bad philosophy will not produce good results. Bad outcomes occur when you see an owner living outside of their means attempting to run the business like a treadmill as a means to keep up. Or perhaps the owner is attempting to run a value proposition that worked for someone else or for another set of customers, but isn’t well suited for them, such as the dentist who attempts to sell real estate investments on the side, or the marketing consultant who suddenly decides to use revenue from marketing services to own and lease private jets. When the business fails to match its value proposition to its natural platform and audience, things will seldom go well.
  5. Failing to realize that rookies stay invested, but professionals sit more fully in cash. Have you ever noticed that the greatest investors are typically sitting in cash, not investments, for a surprisingly high share of their time? Likewise, business owners feel too strong an urge to invest in “this and that” and are not invested strongly enough in protecting their liquidity by maintaining sufficient buffers of cash. What is the greatest cause of business stress and eventual failure? Generally, it’s not a problem on the balance sheet. It’s the lack of sufficient operational cash.
  6. Failing to invest in people. Too many business owners hire too cheaply, Gunderson says. This is flawed thinking. Instead, they should be hiring the best. They should also invest in the technology and expertise that allows them to streamline procedures and to eliminate the necessity to duplicate processes wherever possible as the company grows.
  7. Failing to realize there is no such thing as a passive income. There is never something for nothing, Gunderson acknowledges. Recurring revenue creates less work as time goes on, and is a worthy goal to strive for, but if you don’t manage the revenue at every stage, ultimately, the efficiency of outcome and even the revenue itself will go away.
  8. Doing too many things themselves. As a business owner there are things you do better than anyone you know, and so you continue to do them yourselves and procrastinate the hiring of others to handle those tasks, or you avoid paying for quality, saying “If you want it done right, do it yourself.” This is flawed thinking that doesn’t allow your business (or even your own capabilities) to grow, Gunderson says.
  9. Listening to financial managers who have a “cut back” mentality. The worst advice financial managers give business owners is to tighten your belt and cut back on spending, but they can’t tell you where. Or, in a similar vein, they tell you to augment your business cash flow by getting a second job. Really? “If you’re a dentist and you take a second job, you’re no longer my dentist,” Gunderson says. “This is a reduction mentality instead of a production mentality, and is fundamentally flawed. If you used that time instead to properly focus your attention on your business just a little bit more, you’d succeed.”
  10. Failure to recognize that loans and debt can be good. In the business, do what it takes to create spendable cash for the owner, Gunderson says. (Presumably this is spendable cash to be used to increase business outcomes, and not to create extra bonuses for the purchase of vacation homes and luxury cars.)  The traditional thinking, Gunderson notes, is that when you have extra money, you use it to pay whatever is due next or to chase the highest interest cost on your balance sheet and pay it off first. But the better idea, he says, is to take the loans you have, divide by the monthly payments, and apply your cash to the item that provides you with the lowest cash flow index first. Credit cards have the lowest cash flow index, meaning that if you pay them first, it frees up and improves your cash flow the most. “The number one factor for credit is your debt to income ratio,” Gunderson says. “If I can improve my credit by improving that ratio, I can get a better rate on every loan that I have.” (As an aside he points out that 80% of Americans can’t get the best loans available right now due to their inability to manage this ratio. He also notes that 1 in 4 have a mistake that currently sits on their credit reports unresolved because they aren’t closely managing their credit and cash.) For businesses, an even bigger idea Gunderson suggests is to go for 3-6 months paying only the minimum amount on each debt and apply the additional money to the area of the business that is currently most vulnerable instead. He calls it a “90 Day Debt Delay.” “It will ease their stress and improve their business far more than the benefit of paying down the equivalent amount of money in debt,” he suggests.
  11. Thinking that simply working harder will move your business ahead. The least understood and most valuable commodity towards growing a business is strong vision, Gunderson maintains, and the ability to articulate it well. As a great example of this, he cites the case in point of JFK going on television in 1961 and saying we’ll get a man on a moon within this decade and we’ll get him home safely. “NASA showed up for work differently after that happened,” he says. How can owners increase their own vision? “People get better vision when they learn to take better care of themselves as an asset,” Gunderson says. “Consider spending fewer days at work than you currently spend. People can’t operate properly when the owner is always available. Owners are the cheapest labor available when they’re always there to solve problems. The team never gets tested or upheld, and the business owner burns out. Days out refresh the mind and allow the team to learn to make better decisions. When you think about it, most people are doing nonproductive things all day long. Create the opportunity for them to step up, and in most cases, particularly if you’ve hired and trained correctly, they won’t disappoint.”
  12. Thinking you have to work more to get more. “If you’re making $100K a year and you find out others in your role are making $125K a year you’re suddenly unhappy,” Gunderson says. “But when you really address the strategy of your company, you’ll recognize the ways to increase your efficiency, your team’s productivity, and the reach of your business–and  your profitability and income–without working more, simply working more strategically and better with the resources you already have, or are within your available reach.”
  13. Overpaying your taxes. This is not a bid for exotic strategies such as offshore accounts, Gunderson says. But these problems are most typically the result of  simple issues such as not incorporating. A sole proprietorship, for example, has unlimited liability, Gunderson maintains, since it doesn’t allow you to  differentiate the income that is offset by expenses related to work and they end up overpaying on self employment task. But even as a one person entity, by creating an S-Corp you can take salary and dividends on training, working on business training and not be subject to the 15.3% self employment tax, he maintains. Also, consider the strategy of cost segregation, which is an accelerated form of depreciation for business owners who own the building they are using for running their business.  “Most CPAs (and individuals) take the standard depreciation rate not realizing that you can depreciate some portions of your asset more aggressively than others,” Gunderson says. “To not cost segregate your depreciation is throwing available money away.” “The other biggest mistake people make in this regard is to meet with their tax accountant just once a year,” Gunderson says. “You should meet with your accountant well ahead of time, several times a year, in order to plan in advance.”  Here’s another tax-related surprise: Gunderson loves paying taxes. I admit to being guilty myself of the traditional rash of business spending at the end of the year on allowable expenses to avoid taxable profits. “It just doesn’t make sense to spend $1 to save $.40,” Gunderson says. “I’d rather pay $10M in taxes than $1M, because I need to make so much more to pay the $10M. Yet accountants are notorious reductionist thinkers. Cut, reduce, save, defer. The best tax savings is to earn another dollar. Too many people purposely stop earning more money because of their fear of paying more tax.” So don’t overpay your taxes, Gunderson says. Of 117 people his business examined and tracked data for, he points out that 107 had overpaid their taxes by an average of $11,210 apiece.

For those interested, Gunderson has re-opened a service he has run in the past: Ask The Money Nerds, www.askthemoneynerds.com, is a free resource that allows readers to ask any personal or business-related financial question they like and to be assured the team of “nerd experts” will make best efforts to return a response within 48 hours. No selling is allowed in this program, which points respondents to the best articles, resources and information to answer their questions. The program allows the Money Nerd experts to keep a pulse on the nature of the questions emerging, which is helpful in keeping them as relevant as possible within their specialized fields.

Gunderson himself is the “Nerdiest Money Nerd” within the squadron of experts. For other questions or to reach Gunderson directly, readers can get more information from www.freedomfasttrack.com.

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  • odane birch odane birch 10 months ago

    did not no business onwers could make so much mistakes

  • Alex Parker Alex Parker 10 months ago

    Fantastic tips, Cheryl! Some of them seem so obvious, but are almost too simple to keep in mind (how does that work?). Great work!

  • Cheryl Conner Cheryl Conner, Contributor 10 months ago

    Thanks very much, Alex!

  • Garrett Garrett 10 months ago

    I call that the “Elusive Obvious”.

  • Cheryl Conner Cheryl Conner, Contributor 10 months ago

    Love that, Garrett :) Thanks!

  • Jeff Hays Jeff Hays 10 months ago

    Great article!

  • Cheryl Conner Cheryl Conner, Contributor 10 months ago

    Thanks, Jeff – glad you liked it!
    Best regards,

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  • Robert Walker Robert Walker 5 months ago

    Not everyone make those mistakes ya know. However, mistakes are the steps to success. If I have not made mistakes in the past, I would not have gotten such a successful online business.

  • Cheryl Conner Cheryl Conner, Contributor 5 months ago

    Thank you, Robert!


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Amazon Appstore Is More Lucrative For Developers Than Google Play Store

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Amazon launched its own Appstore for mobile devices last year. While it is still much smaller than Apple‘s iOS App Store or Google‘s Android Market in terms of apps or customers, it has been gaining a lot of traction lately, primarily because of the success of the Kindle Fire, which is one of the most popular tablets to date. According to a recent report by Flurry, Amazon’s Appstore may be a much better option than the official Android Market (Google Play Store) for developers in terms of revenue generation potential. [1]

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Flurry compared the average revenue generated by some top apps sold through the iOS App Store, Android Market and the Amazon Appstore. As expected, the iOS App Store ranked first, but surprisingly, the Amazon Appstore also fared much better than the Android Market. The average revenue generated by an app in the Amazon Appstore is more than thrice the average revenue generated by it through the Android Market.

This finding could lead to developers focusing on the Amazon Appstore, optimizing their apps for Amazon’s tablets and other devices first, and could potentially lead to greater fragmentation in the Android ecosystem. Since Amazon takes a 30% cut off each app sale, it could also lead to a sizable alternative revenue source for Amazon, which has seen depressed margins in the last quarter due to Kindle Fire sales.

More importantly, it could shift the power in the Android ecosystem further out of the hands of Google, which has backed Android primarily to boost its mobile advertising revenues. Like Apple, Amazon is trying to build a complete ecosystem around its platform, but plans to make money by selling digital content instead of hardware. If it is able to get its Appstore on more Android devices by other manufacturers, it can generate additional revenue without taking a hit by selling its own hardware at a loss.

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