Free Singular Diligence Issue: Village Supermarket (NASDAQ:VLGEA)

Want some good reading for the weekend? Check out this research report on Village Supermarket provided for free via Gannon on Investing.

You find the report here.

Disclosure: I am not receiving any compensation for any of the links provided. I have no business relationship with any company or individual mentioned in this article. I have no position in any stock mentioned. 

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Free Singular Diligence Issue: Omnicom (NYSE:OMC)

Want some good reading for the weekend? Check out this research report on the marketing services company Omnicom (NYSE: OMC) provided for free via Gannon on Investing.

Download this old issue from the Singular Diligence collection here.

For some background info, see here.

Disclosure: I am not receiving any compensation for any of the links provided. I have no business relationship with any company or individual mentioned in this article. I have no position in any stock mentioned.

Free Issue of Singular Diligence: Life Time Fitness (LTM)

“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” —Henry David Thoreau

November 2013 Issue of Singular Diligence for Free

Geoff Gannon and Quan Hoang over at gannonandhoangoninvesting.com, a really great blog that I follow, have made one of their Singular Diligence stock analysis reports available for free. To download the November 2013 issue of Singular Diligence about Life Time Fitness (LTM), click here or click the image below.

Disclosure: I wrote this article myself, and it expresses my own opinions. I am not receiving compensation for it. I have no business relationship with any company or individual mentioned in this article. I have no positions in any stocks mentioned.

Checklist: Singleton’s Aquisition Standards

Henry Singleton’s Standards for Acquisitions

In the earlier post The Great Man Behind Teledyne: Henry Singleton and the recording The Manual of Ideas on Business Leader Henry Singleton, Founder of Teledyne, there is a part starting at 1:12:31 that describes the standards that Singleton had for deciding whether or not a company was a good acquisition candidate for his Teledyne.

The questions that Teledyne asked when analyzing and considering potential acquisitions were:

• Is the company profitable?
• Do they have a good balance sheet?
• Is their profit and loss statement accurate?
• Do they have a clean inventory?
• Is their backlog realistic and well documented?
• Is their management on top of their operations?
• Would management be willing to stay if acquired?
• Have they made long ranged plans to maximize their profit in a sell out?
• Does the business have growth potential?
• Is there opportunity for growth in profit?
• Can cash be taken from the company for use elsewhere?
• How is depreciation counted and is it a significant percentage of profits?
• What is the condition of their physical plant?
• Would this company be a good fit within Teledyne organization and its goal?

See here for a review of the book Distant Force A Memoir of the Teledyne Corporation and the Man Who Created It.

This book is also mentioned in the article What Would Value Investing 101 Look Like? written by Geoff Gannon at GuruFocus.com.

Disclosure: I wrote this article myself, and it expresses my own opinions. I am not receiving compensation for it. I have no business relationship with any company or individual mentioned in this article. This article is informational and is in my own personal opinion.