Investcraft – The Art of Investing

Another exciting week of trading comes to an end. For those of you who have been following regularly, almost all the stocks I mentioned in this month’s featured stock analysis closed higher from when I first covered them. This includes Pier One @ $2.78 (NYSE: PIR), Maguire Properties @ $1.33 (NYSE: MPG), CDC Corp @ $2.44 (NASDAQ: CHINA), ZIX Corp @ $2.18 (NASDAQ: ZIXI), E*Trade @ $1.66 (NASDAQ: ETFC), MGM Mirage @ $9.41 (NYSE: MGM), and NCTY @ $7.54 (NASDAQ: NCTY) [...]

At today’s share price, Maguire Properties (NYSE: MPG) stock is priced for a bankruptcy. They closed at $1.33 per share which gives MPG a market cap of about $63 million. This means that the investors think MPG is completely worthless…why? Because MPG actually has more cash on hand than their market cap. Last reported, they had about $64 million cash on hand. That means, just with the cash they have, they can buy back everyone’s shares at today’s price and go private [...]