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Syms Corp. (SYMS)

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  • Syms: Hidden Values Buried on Balance Sheet [View article]
    Hi markkrieger Thanks for the comments! I also owned and sold BRID some time back. Yes they do have some nice real... More »
    Comment by John DiStanislao
    Feb 10 21:37 pm |
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  • Syms: Hidden Values Buried on Balance Sheet [View article]
    Great story..thanks for the detective work. SYMS's is a similar scenario to BRIDgford Foods (BRID)-these guys own a plant near the... More »
    Comment by Mark Krieger
    Feb 10 13:13 pm |
    Rating: +2 0
  • Syms: Hidden Values Buried on Balance Sheet [View article]
    It appears that all voting control was removed from Sy Syms in a July 2008 filing, All voting control was transferred to Marcy Syms.
    Comment by User 354211
    Feb 10 06:46 am |
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  • Syms: Hidden Values Buried on Balance Sheet [View article]
    Hi Tom I agree not much of clear cut catalyst. But the franchise coupled with the real estate does provide a potential floor to the... More »
    Comment by John DiStanislao
    Feb 9 22:51 pm |
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  • Syms: Hidden Values Buried on Balance Sheet [View article]
    Hi Marcap You wrote “I fail to see in your argument where > the actual "margin of safety" lies” The properties can easily be... More »
    Comment by John DiStanislao
    Feb 9 22:41 pm |
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  • Syms: Hidden Values Buried on Balance Sheet [View article]
    4 or 5 years ago I got interested in Ben Graham's writings and tried an investment in Syms, based on the same thinking the author is... More »
    Comment by Tom Armistead
    Feb 9 20:48 pm |
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  • Syms: Hidden Values Buried on Balance Sheet [View article]
    The line "I do not believe this would not provide any "margin of safety" to the investor (or speculator)." should read... "I do not... More »
    Comment by Marcap
    Feb 9 17:55 pm |
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  • Syms: Hidden Values Buried on Balance Sheet [View article]
    While I would agree that in many cases, real estate assets are indeed recorded on company balance sheets at somewhat less than their... More »
    Comment by Marcap
    Feb 9 17:44 pm |
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  • Hedge Fund Tracking: Moore Capital Management (Louis Bacon), Q3 2008 [View article]
    Forget Hedge Funds. Do not send any of them your money. Stick with well grounded Mutual Funds like Fidelity or 20th Century or others.... More »
    Comment by Ames Tiedeman
    Dec 13 17:46 pm |
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  • Hedge Fund Tracking: Moore Capital Management (Louis Bacon), Q3 2008 [View article]
    I couldn't agree more !! It makes billionaires out of multimillioaires and screws the middle income workers to the bloody... More »
    Comment by gare
    Dec 12 03:18 am |
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  • Hedge Fund Tracking: Moore Capital Management (Louis Bacon), Q3 2008 [View article]
    Banning short selling is a very silly idea. Maybe during the next cycle you will read up on diversification and what expanding your... More »
    Comment by Daniel Moser
    Dec 11 19:25 pm |
    Rating: 0 -1
  • Hedge Fund Tracking: Moore Capital Management (Louis Bacon), Q3 2008 [View article]
    would you place the same restrictions on all activities involving the probability of downward movement in value? you take all actions... More »
    Comment by fran
    Dec 11 13:27 pm |
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  • Hedge Fund Tracking: Moore Capital Management (Louis Bacon), Q3 2008 [View article]
    "Naked short" sales are bad for the mkt... Possibly a buying oppertunity in all these stocks the hedge funds are dumping.
    Comment by doylegroup
    Dec 11 09:39 am |
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  • Hedge Fund Tracking: Moore Capital Management (Louis Bacon), Q3 2008 [View article]
    Have you noticed that all these guys had the same positions? No wonder these stocks dropped like a rock.
    Comment by herbert hoover
    Dec 10 18:11 pm |
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  • Hedge Fund Tracking: Moore Capital Management (Louis Bacon), Q3 2008 [View article]
    I will make it my goal to write every member of Congress to introduce a bill to do away with "short" selling of stocks. It serves no... More »
    Comment by PNG
    Dec 10 14:45 pm |
    Rating: 0 -1