The 52-Week Low Club (Gets Much Bigger)

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Sirius (SIRI) hit a 52-week low of $3.38 down from its 12-month high of $5.57. Doubts about its business model and it merger with XM (XMSR) are both in doubt.

A few weeks ago, finding members for the 52-week low club was tough going.

Now, companies in the sub-prime mortgage business could be a list of their own.

New Century (NEW), a lender in some real trouble hit $4.42. The 52 week high for the stock is $51.97.

In a similar sub-prime boat is Novastar (NFI) at $5.98 down from its high for the 12-month period of $23.98. The carnage continues with Impac Mortgage (IMH) at $4.14 against a 52-week high of $11.74, Doral Financial (DRL) at $1.58 down from $11.79, and IndyMac (NDE), a mortgage lender with a stock down from $50.50 to $28.97.

Worldgate (WGAT) which makes video phones hit $.84 down from its 52-week high of $2.20.

Capstone Turbine (CPST) has a sequential revenue drop in its most recent quarter. The company’s Interim Chief Accounting Officer left. The shares are now at $.79 down from their one-year high of $4.47.

And, Stone Energy (SGY), an oil and gas company, recently had a big loss on a write down in its last reported quarter. The shares closed at $27.54, down from the twelve month high of $51.50.

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Douglas A. McIntyre

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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