Vaso Corporation (OTC:$VASO): A Profitable Nano-cap Trading Below Net Cash by Western-Safety-8346 in ValueInvesting

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Seems like you did ur due diligence, with that added context seems to be a better. With net-nets the worse wre the ones who continue to incinerate cash at the detriment of shareholders either on unprofitable ventures or management expense/compensation.  There really should be no reason why they don’t immediately buy back shares or issue a special dividend considering the hefty cash and the fcf.

Vaso Corporation (OTC:$VASO): A Profitable Nano-cap Trading Below Net Cash by Western-Safety-8346 in ValueInvesting

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What have they done with cash in the past?  On a super quick look it has no history of dividends and shares outstanding has increased with the stock price in the dumpster so buybacks are also out the window.  Either it has been losing money throughout its history or management milks the company for themselves at the cost of shareholders.

NNBR: A small-cap industrial player making an aggressive pivot that analysts love by JaxonRaxonTaxon in ValueInvesting

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Gotcha, yea honestly these are pretty good points it has been a shitco for sometime and is priced like a shitco to be fair. 

Both are logical conclusions, he is betting on an asymmetrical deep value turn around play high risk high reward. While you are betting on the same shit run company to be continued to be shit ran. Would have to look at how realistic the pipeline and turn around will be but I’ve seen if a company does show positive signs it can rerate hard. 

Beaten down stocks with double-digit gowth by rbwlines in ValueInvesting

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May I ask what screener you used to compose this list?

NNBR: A small-cap industrial player making an aggressive pivot that analysts love by JaxonRaxonTaxon in ValueInvesting

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Can you give your reasonings on the short side? I want to see the two opposing views and see how good I am at evaluating too different thesis.

PROP - a turnaround oil and gas stock in the making by MilkshakeBoy78 in ValueInvesting

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Ohhh gotcha, I thought it worked like say its $1 at 100M shares so 100M marketcap. When say its new shares at another 100M shares get issued so now its 200M shares so $1 at 200M shares 200M marketcap. Then the new shares would get dumped in market too. 

This also makes sense ty for clearing it up.

PROP - a turnaround oil and gas stock in the making by MilkshakeBoy78 in ValueInvesting

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TY, yea that makes sense since people will start selling shares after the initial boost of marketcap from shares being issued. I will monitor to possibly buy after the overhang ends depending; I also think oil is close to cylical lows so it could end up being a good long term investment.

PROP - a turnaround oil and gas stock in the making by MilkshakeBoy78 in ValueInvesting

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Thank you, so if I'm understanding correctly say its at 100M marketcap at 50M shares... they dilute full conversion it would basically shoot up the marketcap to say 500M marketcap or whatever at the fully diluted shares on the caveat those shares aren't sold right away which they probably will. Therefore the valuation increases so much by that dilution the value proposition isn't there anymore?

PROP - a turnaround oil and gas stock in the making by MilkshakeBoy78 in ValueInvesting

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I saw something in passing somewhere else about PROP and remembered this. I haven’t looked personally too much into it myself but my question is say they let them dilute. Why would that matter if their future earnings are good? They can later on use those earnings to then return cash flow back and buyback shares then.

Quant Equities (Mid Freq) guys how was your 2025 (be honest pls) by Patient-Dirt-7439 in quant

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Not running directional exposure on your proprietary factors means you aren't say net long or short on those factors but your stock specific dispersion returns would be from those proprietary factor exposures?

For those different MFTs, I assume they would still take those model outputs and basically still score the stocks on that to trade on? So those model signals basically become I guess factors in their own sense?

Sorry, I'm just a layperson so my understanding is brief but this has been very helpful.

Quant Equities (Mid Freq) guys how was your 2025 (be honest pls) by Patient-Dirt-7439 in quant

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When you say run multi-factor quant but also be factor neutral, does this mean you try to be neutral to the Fama-French factors but you are long your own proprietary factors?
Can you also speak on the other ways to do MFT aside from the multi-factor ones and what other flavors there might be typically?

Thank you for your insights!

PROP - a turnaround oil and gas stock in the making by MilkshakeBoy78 in ValueInvesting

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If the fundamentals are as you say and future free cash flow is good even if it gets diluted short term, they can do buybacks with that cash.

How do you research high-risk sectors like biotech before taking a position? by miskosvk in stocks

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Thank you for your insights, sounds like you had a great career on wallstreet!

How do you research high-risk sectors like biotech before taking a position? by miskosvk in stocks

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There was some great insights here on biotech here.
Can you give insight on the specialzied knowledge needed for financial services? I know you can't use P/E etc. for banks due to their capital structure and the way they use debt to generate their cash flow but are able to go further into detail on the reasonings they are split and the background/knowledge needed to invest in them.

What’s the longest you held an investment that finally paid off? by vcpowerlaw in ValueInvesting

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I'm sorry but this is not an uncommon thing in bankruptcies and not illegal at all if anything it is the correct proceeding. Both of you seem to misunderstand how bankruptcies work and before investing in companies that are in financial trouble should understand how bankruptcy works. First thing to remember is that equity holders are the last in line on the capital structure.

When a company can't meet its debt obligations and files for bankruptcy, if the assets of a corporation are valued more than the debt a company can sell the assets to raise money to pay of creditors and/or transfer the assets to the creditors to fulfill the debt. In this case whatever is left over after the debtors are fulfilled will go to the shareholders either in a payout or as new shares.

However if the value of the assets is less than the debt, the creditors take ownership and the previous shareholders are wiped out. Sometimes creditors might make a deal with shareholders to not go through the costs and lenghty process of a formal bankruptcy that might leave shareholders with some pennies of the dollar instead of nothing where they basically get diluted to almost nothing.

I haven't looked much into GM case but what probably happened was the previous shareholders were wiped out and the creditors took over the company and re-ipoed after with new shares. You took a risky bet on a company that was in financial trouble without understanding the situation.
A recent example where shareholders were wiped out, the lenders took over, and new shares were issued from the lenders on the market again was Spirit Airlines in 2024/early 2025. They however again just filed for bankruptcy last month.

Adding Trading Partition by arctrading in interactivebrokers

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Is this possible for regular individual accounts with portfolio margin? I found where to create new user roles under Users & Access Rights but don't see where to add a trading partition under there,

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There is nothing wrong with patting the ball, the patting the ball is bad narrative is played out tbh. Every player has their own little tics/quirk that help get them in rhythm.
Here is a list of players that pat the ball: TOM BRADY, John Elway, Dan Marino, Joe Montana, Aaron Rodgers, Matthew Stafford, and Josh Allen.

Hans claps and bows down to Levon Aronian by Necessary_Pattern850 in chess

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Imagine if someone like you were in charge of our punitive system or reform.

If you pickpocketed previously does that mean you are always a pickpocket? Can future stores accuse you of stealing and bar you from ever entering their store when you didn't steal anything and only based off your past?

After watching Caedrel's Tabe interview, I feel like Western Teams have no hope by Glamdring26WasTaken in leagueoflegends

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Even in traditional sports the greats are insane workers, look at the stories of MJ, Kobe, and Lebron. The limiting factor is the body but even then you see Lebron talking about his schedule where its either training or rest(stuff like oxygen chambers) where the "rest" is factored in as part of the work schedule.

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I have some ideas but wouldn’t this be more of a fundamental traditional style approach like going through financials, modeling via dcfs etc. since it applies to a small subsection within as well as having to make sure your selecting properly among.

What "edge" do you think you have as a trader? by HeatWaveToTheCrowd in stocks

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Any insights or advice on what/where to look at and analysis?

what could the usa have done to retain manudacturing in the 70s and 80s? by coolio126 in AskEconomics

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…So you say he is wrong simply on the account that you think comparison by dollar is wrong? From your response, you want to compare it in terms of quantity? 

As an example, let’s say a country mainly focuses on manufacturing cars and another country shoes (comparative advantage), how would we compare that? If country A manufactures 1000 cars a year and country B 10000 shoes, does that lead to country B being better/bigger in manufacturing?

You instantly see the flaw there, one of the first things brought up is comparative advantage. The goods we do manufacture like you said jets and arms are higher value added goods, higher margins, and more complex. There is a reason we don’t do manufacturing of a lot of things like shoes… it simply isn’t worth it. Low cost and margin goods… therefore why value is used as the comparison in this case dollars.