J. Carlo Cannell runs Cannell Capital, the long/short activist investment firm he founded in 1992 with just $600,000 under management. Cannell’s ideas are as unconventional as the man himself – he’s a Princeton liberal arts major, then freelance journalist in Fiji – and he describes himself as a “fox, not a hedge hog” (referring, I guess, to [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Cannell Capital’
J Carlo Cannell and Steller’s Sea Cow
Posted in Activist Investors, Stocks, tagged Cannell Capital, J. Carlo Cannell, Value Investing Congress on December 7, 2011 | 1 Comment »
ValueVision Media Inc (NASDAQ:VVTV) auction fails
Posted in Activist Investors, Cannell Capital, Net Net Stocks, Stocks, ValueVision Media (NASDAQ:VVTV), tagged Cannell Capital, Net Current Asset Value, Net Net Stock, ValueVision Media Inc (NASDAQ:VVTV) on February 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Our posts on ValueVision Media Inc. (NASDAQ:VVTV) attract more attention than any other posts on this site, though we exited the position last year. We initially liked VVTV because it looked like a cheap net net with other potentially valuable assets. That was a mistake. VVTV has huge contractual obligations relative to its current assets.* [...]
VVTV quarantined until further notice
Posted in Activist Investors, Cannell Capital, J. Carlo Cannell, Stocks, ValueVision Media (NASDAQ:VVTV), tagged Cannell Capital, J. Carlo Cannell, ValueVision Media Inc (NASDAQ:VVTV) on December 22, 2008 | 10 Comments »
A number of commenters have identified in the notes to ValueVision Media Inc. (NASDAQ:VVTV)‘s latest 10Q that VVTV has substantial cash obligations under the cable and satellite agreements and operating leases falling due over the five fiscal years from 2009 to 2012 and not reflect in VVTV’s balance sheet. The worst case scenario is that [...]
ValueVision Media Inc (NASDAQ:VVTV) Q3 Update
Posted in Activist Investors, Cannell Capital, J. Carlo Cannell, Net Net Stocks, Stocks, ValueVision Media (NASDAQ:VVTV), tagged Activist investment, Cannell Capital, J. Carlo Cannell, Liquidating Value, Net Current Asset Value, Net Net Stock, Net Quick Value on December 17, 2008 | 3 Comments »
ValueVision Media Inc. (NASDAQ:VVTV), which we posted about on Wednesday last week, has filed its November 10Q. In our earlier post, we wrote that VVTV seemed to us to be one of the better opportunities available because it’s a net net stock (i.e. a stock trading for less than its net current assets) with other [...]

