Rick Newman with U.S. News and World Reports put together an interesting piece about 15 companies that may not survive 2009 because these firms all carry large amounts of debt with very little cash on their books. These 15 firms all have been labeled with "very high" credit risks by Moody's. By using The Applied Finance Group's (AFG’s) intrinsic value chart, one would have identified many of these companies as possessing great investment risks, long before they became red flags among the masses. Let's take a look at what AFG thinks of the 8 publicly traded firms by using AFG’s Intrinsic Value Chart and a brief explanation of the chart. AFG’s Intrinsic Value Chart: identifies how far a stock’s trading range deviates from its intrinsic value (target price assuming[More...]

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