Aug
19
2008
Have you considered whether the companies adopted as ‘comparable to one another’ by Analysts are similar enough in all respects to make share price comparisons between them meaningful?
Comparative analysis utilizes key operating ratios and multiples of what are thought to be similar businesses or so-called ‘peer group companies’. To qualify as comparables, companies must be in the same business, undertake only the same business functions, and have the same risk profiles. When selecting comparable companies, consideration should be given to factors including:
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Aug
17
2008
Silver is the most plentiful precious metal. Its physical properties include adaptability to temperature change, electrical and thermal conductivity, ductility, light reflectivity and sensitivity, and malleability. Some of silver’s physical properties are the better than those of all other elements. As a result, silver is:
• used in industrial and (increasingly) medical applications where in many cases it is used in small quantities and is non-substitutable;
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Aug
14
2008
Have you focused on the following things we think are important when determining whether to invest in Junior Mining Exploration Companies in the Current Market?
The following is a checklist of a number of the things we think investors should carefully consider when assessing Junior Mining Exploration Stocks in the current market environment:
1. Analyze prior promises: be extremely hardheaded and cynical in your assessment of your current and prospective Junior Mining investments. Critically analyze prior management promises against actual performance. In this regard, we suggest you focus on whether companies that raised money in the last three years through a private placement or prospectus offering spent that money in a way that resulted in NI 43-101 Resources or Reserves believed to have a chance of commercial exploitation;
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Aug
12
2008
In the current and prospective economic and stock market environment are you planning to spend more time understanding the economy, the markets and your investment options than you have done in the past? Are you going to do more stock research, online research, and analysis yourself?
If you read Canadian newpapers, you may have read the recent articles referring to losses suffered by ‘ordinary investors’ on investments made in non-bank ‘asset backed commercial paper’ (‘ABCP’), described in at least one instance as ‘an obscure investment product many … had never heard of’. Another headline stated: ‘Investors blame the brokers, brokers blame the companies, the companies blame the debt raters’. Investors who purchased ABCP’s were quoted as having said things like (paraphrased):
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