52-Week Low Club (APR 20, 2007)

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By Douglas A. McIntyre Published

Ok, so there’s only been one down day on the Dow Jones Industrial Average in umpty ump days.  Some companies aren’t benefitting at all, as there are many in the Hall of Shame in the 52-week Low Club:

Stamps.com (STMP) gave up 16% to hit a new year low after earnings fell last night and taking some downgrades.  It looks like there just aren’t enough barriers to entry and how many personalized stamps are really needed?

Mizuho Financial Group (MFG)…serving Japan might not be that great for them.

Quepasa Corporation (QPSA)….Que paso, Quepasa?

Aptimus Inc. (APTM)…….um, should an ad company that distributed advertisements for direct marketing advertisers through a network of third-party web sites be on its lows?

Inforte Corp (INFT), one of tech and strategy consulting firms whose target is to "improve their customer’s ability to acquire, develop, and retain customers."  Maybe they should hire themselves. 

Mathstar Inc (MATH) continued it slide, maybe being a fabless semiconductor operation isn’t such a good model after all.  At least it isn’t for them.

PDI Corp (PDII)….This one managed to get back above its lows for the year, but it was looking ugly for a while.  The company is launching a "talent acquisitions" business unit.

Jon C. Ogg
April 20, 2007

Jon Ogg can be reached at [email protected]; he does not own securities in the companies he covers.

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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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