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Hibbett Sports (HIBB) – quick short of the day

January 14th, 2008 at 10:07 pm » Comments (0)

I shorted some HIBB after-hours at $12.45. It closed at $15.96 so it was down almost 25% already. Why on earth would I chase it? for a few reasons:
1. They cut their fourth quarter forecast to 20-26c from 36-44c
2. They cut their comp sales forecast from up mid-single digits to down mid-single digits
3. Companies that [...]



Sandisk (SNDK) – expectations too high, setting up for disaster

January 13th, 2008 at 3:24 pm » Comments (0)

I’m posting this article that I had begun writing at the end of December while I was out of the country. After what the market has done recently, SNDK is a full 20% lower in stock price but I think that some of the comments I made are still relevant so I am posting my [...]