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Acme United Corporation (ACU – $11.50) announced strong sales and earnings growth for its first quarter ending march 31, 2010. Sales were $13.1 million, compared to $11.3 million in the first quarter of 2009, an increase of 16%. Net income was $214,000 or $.07 per diluted share for the quarter ended March 31, 2010 compared to $42,000 or $.01 per […]
Read moreHalliburton Company (HAL), the second largest oilfield services company in the world, agreed on Friday to buy Boots & Coots (WEL – $2.35), a well known provider of integrated pressure control services to oil and gas exploration companies, in a stock and cash transaction worth approximately $240 million. Boots & Coots stockholders will receive $3.00 per share for each share […]
Read moreWe discussed DAC Technologies’ (DAAT – $0.62) fourth quarter and year-end results in our previous newsletter, but we had to wait for the 10-K to be filed before we could give you our opinion on the Company’s balance sheet. Balance sheet as of December 31, 2009 DAC Technologies has a clean balance sheet as it has a current ratio of […]
Read moreDAC Technologies (DAAT – $0.65), that sells gun cleaning kits, gun safety items and various hardware products, announced that its fiscal year 2009 net income increased by $196,861 or 55% compared with last year. Nevertheless, the stock ended down 13% for the day. Want to know the full story, read on. Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2009 Results Net sales […]
Read moreGlobal Green Solutions (GGRN – $0.085) released a photo update of the construction of its Greensteam demonstration unit at Aera Energy’s Belridge oilfield. After meticulously planning and organizing, construction has begun, and now everybody can see the progress being made. Management plans to do similar updates every 4-6 weeks. The Demonstration Unit In March 2008, Global Green Solutions signed an […]
Read moreBoots & Coots, Inc. (WEL – $2.00) announced fourth quarter and year end results earlier this week. Both its revenues and earnings for the quarter and full year were down compared with 2008. Although the Company’s numbers are worse than those of last year, the stock is up 75% since our buy recommendation a little over a year ago. Despite […]
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Saj Karsan wrote an update on Acme United (ACU – $10.69) titled Acme In A League Of It’s Own. You should check out Saj’s daily blog on investing in fundamentally undervalued, mostly small cap, stocks. I spoke with Saj a couple of times. He’s a great guy. Since Acme announced outstanding fourth quarter results and 2010 outlook last week, the […]
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Acme United Corporation (ACU) on Friday announced strong fourth quarter sales and earnings growth driven by the Company’s operational execution and innovative product mix. Mr. Johnsen, the Company’s Chairman and CEO, didn’t provide guidance for 2010, but he did indicate that revenues were up 17% year over year for January 2010 and that he expected strong growth for the full […]
Read moreAs Baldwin Technology Company, Inc. (BLD – $1.16), a global leader in process automation technology for the printing industry, announced its second quarter results a few days ago, we figured it was time to ask Mr. Karl Puehringer, the Company’s President and CEO, about Baldwin’s growth plans and outlook. We believe that as the economy is bottoming out, the printing […]
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In last week’s newsletter we wrote we were going to conduct an update interview with Mr. Walter Johnsen, the Chairman and CEO of Acme United (ACU), to ask him about his prospects for 2010. Well we did, and Mr. Johnsen gave us a positive and promising outlook. Although the market remains tough, Acme United is picking up sales both by […]
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