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  • Keep a Clean Conscience Investing in This Dirty Business

    By Steve Symington - December 10, 2012 | Tickers: BG, DAR, REGI, VLO

    According to recent research from the United States Department of Agriculture, the average American eats nearly 2,000 pounds of food every year, including around 415 pounds of vegetables, 185 pounds of meat, and 85 pounds of fats and oils.

    While those numbers may serve as a surprising, entertaining illustration for just how much we consume, here's a more ominous question: what happens to all the stuff we don more »

  • Dumpster Diving: Are These 5 Waste Stocks Worth Buying?

    By Bill Edson - October 10, 2012 | Tickers: CVA, DAR, RSG, WCN, WM

    Value investors dig through out-of-favor stocks to find underpriced companies. Often the companies they find are unloved, unknown, or completely unpalatable for most investors. They are cigar buts or garbage in the world of financial assets.

    Perplexingly, many waste management companies are not trading as though they are garbage. Many of these stocks are trading at very dear multiples. Investors must exercise care to make sure they are not overpaying more »

  • 5 Stock Picks from Gates Capital Management

    By Meena Krishnamsetty - September 25, 2012 | Tickers: DAR, DVA, MHFI, NTK, SNA

    Jeffrey Gates founded Gates Capital Management in 1996 after a career researching and selling high-yield bonds and currently serves as the fund’s portfolio manager. Gates is an event-driven investor who seeks to identify “dislocation events” at public companies that create cash flow and sustainable value. Read on for analysis of five of the fund’s top holdings.

    Gates reported owning 2 million shares of Nortek (NASDAQ: NTK), the fund more »

  • Should You Hold Your Nose and Buy Darling?

    By Meena Krishnamsetty - September 25, 2012 | Tickers: CVH, DAR, HEK, SRCL, VE

    Darling International Inc. (NYSE: DAR) acts as a provider of waste recycling and recovery services for food providers. For example, it processes animal by-products from meat processors and restaurants into meal, tallow, and grease. 2012 is shaping up to be a tough year for Darling, as its revenues were down 10% and its net income was down 34% in the first six months of the year compared to the same more »

  • Value Investing at...the Olympics?

    By John Bromels - August 6, 2012 | Tickers: AONEQ, AFL, AAPL, CMG, KO, DAR, XOM, NBG, SBUX

    Like David Gardner, I'm a fan of games of all kinds.  And so, every two years, I run a Fantasy Olympics pool at work.  Each player picks five countries, which are handicapped based on their performance at the previous (summer or winter) Games.  Best performance wins.  As I was contemplating my team for this year's Summer games, I was struck with how much it reminded me of stock-picking more »