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The Motley Fool June 24, 2004 Nathan Slaughter |
Topps Tops Estimates The trading card and candy company is getting back on track. |
The Motley Fool July 1, 2005 Jeremy MacNealy |
Has Topps Topped Out? An enterprise value of $340.3 million, with $92.9 million in cash and no long-term debt, creates a reasonable a price for a marquee name like Topps. But its stock may remain topped out until the company can spur growth by shuffling up its sports cards. |
The Motley Fool December 30, 2005 Andy Cross |
My Pops May Dig Topps Topps' candy sale flops, but the company still has value. |
The Motley Fool April 7, 2005 Nathan Slaughter |
Is Topps at a Bottom? The confectioner and trading-card company posts fourth straight year of down sales. However, top line growth is in the forecast this year, and each share comes with around $2.60 in cash inside. |
The Motley Fool September 29, 2005 Nathan Slaughter |
Topps Stuck in a Slump The confectioner and trading card company is down but not out. Investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool April 11, 2006 Jeremy MacNealy |
Topps in Need of a Relief Pitcher The confectionary and trading card manufacturer continues to strike out. Is there any relief in sight? For a stock that's essentially at the same level it was back in 1989, there better be some evidence of positive performance before jumping in. |
The Motley Fool September 13, 2005 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Say It Ain't So, Bazooka Joe! After seven months of unsuccessfully trying to sell its confectionery business, the trading card specialist has decided to keep it after all. Even though the stock is now trading near its 52-week low, shareholders may come to appreciate this decision. |
The Motley Fool September 29, 2006 Stephen Ellis |
Topps Should Be Sent to the Showers This candy and card seller has two strikes against it. Investors, take note. |
AskMen.com Malcolm MacMillan |
5 Things You Didn't Know: Sports Cards After hearing how far the hobby has come, you might want to stop on the way home and pick up a pack or two. |
The Motley Fool May 25, 2007 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
2 Suitors Make a Play for Topps A bidding war may be under way for the struggling maker of trading cards. Investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool January 4, 2007 Steven Mallas |
Is Topps at the Top? Topps showed improvement in its third-quarter performance. Should you collect some of its shares? |
The Motley Fool March 6, 2007 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Eisner's New Card Trick Michael Eisner's Tornante investing arm is teaming up with private equity firm Madison Dearborn Partners to cash out existing trading card and candy maker Topps shareholders at $9.75 a pop. |
The Motley Fool January 2, 2007 Rich Duprey |
Foolish Forecast: Topps Not on Top The trading card company reports its third-quarter 2007 results shortly, and right now, they don't look too sweet. Investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool June 27, 2007 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Upper Deck Spins Topps In Topps' buyout bidding, Upper Deck regains the upper hand. |
The Motley Fool September 21, 2007 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Topps Hits Bottom The trading-card company accepts Tornante's buyout offer, cheating investors out of better deals. |
The Motley Fool June 18, 2007 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
A Scuffle at the Topps Next week's Topps shareholder vote on a privatization buyout offer is being delayed to give a rival bidder a shot at the trading-card giant. |
AskMen.com Malcolm MacMillan |
Top 10: Valuable Collector's Items These items from key moments in sporting history are out there, but got shuffled away in the excitement of victory. And someone might just have one of them among his family treasures. |
The Motley Fool April 6, 2004 Seth Jayson |
Topps Continues to Flop If you can't sell candy to Americans, you're doing something wrong. |
The Motley Fool January 6, 2006 Jeremy MacNealy |
Topps Strikes Out, Again There's a lot to dislike about the company's recent performance. But an enterprise of buying back chunks of what it considers undervalued shares, combined with initiatives in place to attempt a turnaround, may provide some much-needed relief for this stock. |
The Motley Fool January 2, 2004 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Fro-Dough Bagging "Return of the King" rakes in $500 million worldwide. Wow, that's some ring, huh? There's clearly plenty of this pie to go around. A look at companies that are getting a cut |
The Motley Fool September 23, 2005 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
The Fool's Look Ahead Monday: Walgreen reports its fiscal fourth-quarter results... Tuesday: Paychex discloses its fiscal first-quarter numbers... Wednesday: Topps leads the pack of reporters int eh middle of the week... etc. |
The Motley Fool April 1, 2005 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
The Fool's Look Ahead Monday: Jos. A. Bank Clothiers produces its fiscal fourth quarter financials... Tuesday: American Greetings discloses its fiscal fourth quarter results... Wednesday: You didn't even know that WD-40 traded publicly?... etc. |
Reason March 2009 Nick Gillespie |
Briefly Noted: Bubblegum Subversion Wacky Packages, a new collection from Abrams, reproduces images from the series' glory days. |
The Motley Fool January 28, 2005 W.D. Crotty |
One Sweet Stock Chewing gum king Wrigley continues its success at growing earnings. |
Salon.com August 1, 2001 Allen Barra |
Play ball? You bet The Wall Street Journal says kids aren't interested in the national pastime anymore. The folks who sell baseball gear beg to differ... |
The Motley Fool January 8, 2004 W.D. Crotty |
Wrigley, You're So Sweet The chewing gum giant is solid and heads to Spain for latest acquisition. |
The Motley Fool January 7, 2004 Dave Marino-Nachison |
Topps Topples The cards-and-candy company is having trouble with its WizKids acquisition. |
The Motley Fool September 9, 2004 Selena Maranjian |
Credit Cards for College Collegians and credit cards aren't necessarily a disastrous combination. |
The Motley Fool July 9, 2007 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Topps Hits the Deck Trading-card specialist Topps is recommending that shareholders not tender their shares to Upper Deck. The renegade bidder and trading-card rival is offering $10.75 a share. |
The Motley Fool April 22, 2005 Nathan Slaughter |
Hershey: More Dessert, Please The chocolate king is even sweeter now, and it reports record first-quarter sales and earnings. |
The Motley Fool February 20, 2007 Mary Dalrymple |
Do You Have Too Many Credit Cards? See how you stack up against the average credit card-carrying consumer. |
The Motley Fool August 19, 2004 Selena Maranjian |
Is Cash Becoming Extinct? We're approaching a cashless society, with plastic in our pockets instead. And when we pay with plastic, we tend to spend more, so be wary. |
Knowledge@Wharton |
Marketing Ethics in a Post-Terrorist Economy: What is the Right Pitch? What role do advertisers and marketers have in helping to influence the debate over what is going on in the world, and what kinds of responses are they going after? |
The Motley Fool April 5, 2004 Selena Maranjian |
Credit Cards for China Credit card companies have their eyes on a big and fast-growing new market in China. |
InternetNews August 2, 2010 |
Smart Card Shipments Explode What's going to drive even wider adoption of smart cards? |
The Motley Fool January 27, 2011 Morgan Housel |
A Big Myth About U.S. Consumers Why we haven't given up on credit cards. |
The Motley Fool August 3, 2005 Richard Gibbons |
Wrigley: A Stock I'd Love to Own Even taking relatively optimistic assumptions, such as a 9% discount rate, 10% growth for the next 10 years, and 4% growth thereafter, an intrinsic value calculator shows that the stock is worth about $70, roughly its current price. |
Science News November 16, 2002 Ivars Peterson |
Card Shuffling Shenanigans Application of statistics to card shuffling machines shows that they have flaws. |
The Motley Fool March 10, 2007 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
A Fool Looks Back Cards and kids set the stage for a busy walk down Wall Street this past week. Lonely at the Topps... Where a Kid Can be a Kidder... |
The Motley Fool July 14, 2006 Selena Maranjian |
Make Big Bucks From Credit Cards Some cards pay you for using them -- a good deal, eh? |
The Motley Fool October 2, 2006 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
3 Stocks That Blew the Market Away Beat the market and the world will beat a path to your door. Topps... McCormick... Paychex... |
The Motley Fool February 17, 2004 Selena Maranjian |
How to Reduce Your Debt There's hope -- you can be debt-free once again! Steps to becoming debt free. |
BusinessWeek September 3, 2007 Ronald Grover |
Michael Eisner 2.0 Will See You Now Former Disney chief Michael Eisner has reinvented himself as a New Media mogul. |
The Motley Fool December 8, 2010 Dan Caplinger |
Don't Let This Desperate Bank Move Snare You Banks are trying too hard to replace lost profits. |
The Motley Fool September 17, 2004 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
The Fool's Look Ahead The author takes a look at the business week that approaches. |
The Motley Fool May 25, 2007 Selena Maranjian |
Get Sick and Make Money? Health-care credit cards do make some sense for some people. While many rewards cards might counter-productively motivate people to spend more than they need to just to earn more points, it's doubtful that this kind of card will. |
The Motley Fool March 22, 2006 Selena Maranjian |
Credit Card Payments Are Doubling Sounds bad, but it's actually a good thing for consumers. Here's why. |
The Motley Fool March 12, 2007 Matt Koppenheffer |
The M&A Mix Tape A rockin' review of what dealmakers have been doing over the past week. "Kiss on My List" by Hall and Oates featuring Movielink... "Can't Buy Me Love" by The Beatles featuring Citi and Nikko... etc. |
The Motley Fool January 11, 2012 Robert Eberhard |
I Will Not Use Credit Cards in 2012 After a decade in debt, the author swears off plastic for good. |
The Motley Fool February 11, 2011 Dan Caplinger |
This Sneaky Card Trick May Actually Work Airlines impose new fees, then issue waivers as rewards. By offering to waive fees to cardholders, though, airline rewards cards may suddenly move back to the top of the list for many travelers. |