CSI Update 11/22/2024

This is my last regular update. I will likely continue to post interesting ideas from time to time.

I was up 6.4% last week.

I closed out CRNT–just before it jumped to $3.70 on Friday. I booked a 53% profit. You can’t lose taking a profit.

NEXN is finally moving and hit $10 this week, up 120% from when I bought it.

I am still waiting for IRIX to do SOMETHING.

Hopefully SNCR will announced their AT&T renewal shortly.

VNDA, ANGI and PERI all look very cheap to me.

CSI-11/16/2024 Update

EDAP and SNCR have been killing me. I am down to 0% gain for the year. I guess I got greedy on both.

I dumped DHX and took my lumps. It worked four times before, but not this time. Even their new CFO left. Lost 36%.

I dumped VNDA for a 7% gain. They have more cash than their market cap, but no one cares.

I dumped SBLK for a 6% loss.

I tried to get out of CRNT but was only able to sell some for a 55% gain. Good earnings, but it couldn’t hold much of its gains. Again, a crappy market for small caps.

NEXN had great earnings but the stock went down anyway, just stupid.

I will wait for whatever deal IRIX comes up with. Hopefully this will happen soon. They have taken over a year to do something. Now they say they are close.

I find 180 Degree Capital quarterly shareholder letters interesting regarding their perspective on small caps and value stocks.

https://d1io3yog0oux5.cloudfront.net/_1e1471301fd36c83d1e2f17ecb7f3de9/180degreecapital/db/373/2906/letter_to_shareholders/Q3+2024+shareholder+letter+-+FINAL.pdf

CSI-The End

I am in the process of liquidating all of my CSI stock positions. I sold a bunch last week. 

I am obviously out of tune with this market. Value stocks are being shunned for stocks trading at PE’s of 20 and up. PE’s of 50 and more are common. Either this is finally the “new economy baby” like they were touting back in 1999, or this is the biggest bubble I have seen in my 50 years of being in the market fueled by reckless government spending and total disregard for any risk in the market or economy. So I am folding up my tent and will stop posting any regular updates after next week. I ended up with an 85% win rate since 2015. I am 72 now and will just be mostly buying CD’s! Good luck to all of you in your investing.

CSI Update 11/8/2024

CSI was up 2.1% last week and up 8.0% for the year

NYSE was up 4.1% last week and up 18.3% for the year

NASDAQ was up 7.0% last week and up +28.5% for the year

Russell 2000 was up 9.4% last week and is up 18.4% for the year

Magnificent 7 was up 7.5% last week and up +38% for the year

EDAP valuation new=$6.20 down from $7.42

VNDA valuation new=$14.27 down from $15.44. Has $6.46 in net cash.

CTRM valuation new=$18.01 down from $22.49

ARAY valuation new=$4.91 down from $5.59

The market has gone nuts again. Stocks selling at 100 times earnings and more. Value stocks are in the dumpster.