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High Risk Stocks

The Death List includes two stock portfolios that we think are risky business. Of course, we don’t know for sure that they’re heading down; so don’t sell them short based on our opinion. However, you might want to do a little extra due diligence if you own them. 

Last updated using data from 7/23/10, next scheduled update:  8/7/10

Death List #1: High Debt

These firms have built up debt levels that could be a drag on earnings and cash flow for years to come. We've employed a variety of financial strength tests to pinpoint this list of potential underperformers. 

Leverage Ratio: total assets divided by shareholders’ equity. A firm with no debt would have a leverage ratio of one, and the higher the debt, the higher the ratio.

Interest Coverage: amount of annual interest covered by a cash flow measure (EBITDA). A ratio of 1.0 means that annual interest and EBITDA are equal. Ratios of 4.0 or higher reflect solid balance sheets. Negative ratios reflect negative cash flow.

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Recent
Price

Interest
Coverage
Leverage
Ratio

AGAM

Aga Medical Holdings

12.99

-14.1

25.2

BGCP

BGC Partners

4.84

-3.8

6.8

BXC

BlueLinx Holdings

3.66

-1.2

15.8

FUN

Cedar Fair

13.48

-2.0

21.9

CLWR

Clearwire 

6.52

-12.5

7.0

CLDA

Clinical Data

12.60

-20.2

25.4

CCIX

Coleman Cable

4.89

0.0

161.9

XXMFF

Cri Hotel Income Partners

3.68

-0.9

10.2

XTXI

Crosstex Energy

6.30

0.4

10.6

HRZ

Horizon Lines

4.06

-0.3

9.5

IEP

Icahn Enterprises

37.55

0.4

6.5

LGF

Lions Gate Entertainment

6.81

0.3

31.6

MTW

Manitowoc

10.17

0.4

7.9

SOA

Solutia

14.73

-0.3

6.7

STXS

Stereotaxis

3.71

-9.9

77.1

STU

Student Loan Corporation

22.06

1.1

36.1

TSTY

Tasty Baking Company

7.05

-3.6

8.1

TNGN

Tengion

3.73

-12.4

7.5

TRBN

Trubion Pharmaceuticals

3.22

-57.9

5.9

VRML

Vermillion

10.74

-78.8

7.0

VKSC

Viskase Companies

4.75

-2.0

48.7

 

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Death List #2: Too Hot Not to Cool Down

Have these overpriced stocks have gone too far, too fast?

This list comes from a screen inspired by a series of occasional articles spotlighting overpriced stocks published by Barron’s in the mid-90s. The screen searches out stocks that are overvalued by a variety of measures, and have already recorded strong results over the past 52 weeks.

 

Price

TFY P/E

P/Sales

P/Bk

BIDU

Baidu

74.45

55

22.9

28.7

ISLN

Isilon Systems

16.38

86

5.9

15.8

MHR

Magnum Hunter Resources

4.60

160

9.0

5.6

RBCN

Rubicon Technology

33.18

53

14.6

6.8

CRM

salesforce.com

95.93

83

8.2

10.9

SLXP

Salix Pharmaceuticals

44.12

712

14.2

7.1

SFSF

SuccessFactors

21.23

1094

8.8

7.5

TRGT

Targacept

19.92

140

7.3

7.2

VMW

VMware

75.66

55

11.5

9.4

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