$GRVY Releases Ragnarok Online 2 in Korea Today

After a very long wait, and through many different iterations of Ragnarok Online 2, Gravity ($GRVY) has finally released the MMPORG in Korea today.  Here is the long awaited press release.  The stock had been battered over the past several years with the poor development of RO2, but after new management, the game has been released.  Currently, it is only released in Korea, but local licensing has been granted to Thailand, Japan, the Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, China, Indonesia and Brazil. I’ve been long $GRVY for a year.  The stock was a bargain in the $1+ range, but has since...

Value Investing Articles to Read – New or Seasoned Investors

Geoff Gannon from Gannon on Investing was recently hired on at GuruFocus.com.  Geoff writes the monthly Buffet/Munger and Net-Net Pick Newsletters.  Since starting at GuruFocus, he was been writing some great articles on value investing by answering a specific email from a reader.  The articles are very good, and cover a range of topics.  I wanted to link to the articles that I think should be read. What Would Value Investing 101 Look Like How to get the Most from an Annual Report What’s a No Growth Business Worth?   Geoff has written a lot of articles, so take...

Behavior Economics Reading List

I do a lot of reading about finance, stock investing, economics, real estate, and business.  I’ve created a value investing reading list that tries to aggregate all of the investing books that a value investor should read.  Of course, the list is quite long, so I’m trying to write reviews on all of them to help people decide the priority of reading each book.  Eventually I would like to gather everyone’s feedback to rate each of the books, so I would have a crowd-sourced ranked list. The list that I created is focused on investing, but everyone should also...

WSTL – Westell Technologies Analysis

Business Overview Westell Technologies Inc (WSTL) designs and distributes telecommunications products primarily to major telephone companies. WSTL has been going through a transformation in the past year, and has sold off two of its major business units. It sold the Customer Networking Solutions (CNS) division on March 17th, 2011 to NETGEARInc. for a gain of $31.7M.  The transaction transferred associated assets and liabilities to NETGEAR except for the assets of the Homecloud product family. The Homecloud product is being kept, and will be part of the growth strategy of the company going forward.  WSTL sold the ConferencePlus division on...