InfuSystem Holdings ($INFU) is a company that I ran across when I was reading about Ryan Morris in Businessweek. Ryan Morris is a young activist investor, and Businessweek wrote up a story about him and a couple of his activist forays. One of those companies was InfuSystem Holdings, so I decided to do some more research about the company to see if it was a good opportunity. Ryan Morris is the managing partner at Meson Capital Partners. Meson had an outstanding year in 2009, which you should read the annual partnership letter, as the partnership gained 753% for the...
Wealth of Data Provided by Aswath Damodaran
I was reading Aswath Damodaran’s blog about the dark side of numbers and began to look at the updated data sets that he provides for free on his data page site. If you do not know who Aswath Damodaran is, he is a professor of finance at the Stern school of business at NYU. He teaches classes on Corporate Finance and Valuation, and is pretty well known for his knowledge and studies on valuing businesses. As I started to dig into the data that is provided on his page, I was amazed. First of all, you can visit his...
Learn Financial Statement Analysis from KhanAcademy.com
I haven’t been very good a keeping up with posts, but I am going to change that and start to post more regularly during 2013 and beyond. I finally decided to check out KhanAcademy this past weekend. I have heard quite a bit about the site from various locations, and wanted to try it out. To my surprise, the site contained a lot of good information about finance and economics. If you do not know about KhanAcademy, then you can read up more about it on their about page. They have a whole section on Finance and Capital Markets which...