SBR's pick your best stock contest. Win $500!

[Matt23]

JMBA- Jamba Juice

[McRich]

Dicks Sporting Goods

DKS

[ChuteBoxe]

ELECTRONIC ARTS (NasdaqGS:ERTS)
Market Cap: (15.74 B)

[patswin]

3M Company

Symbol MMM

[gummo]

Blue Coat Systems Inc. (BCSI)

[ryhenry09]

Mbi

[aszzzbrokerman]

microsoft(msft)

[slacker00]

CERN---Cerner: Health Care IT Services




I know zero about the stock market. But, I thought I'd at least try to research a little just for fun. Gawd, WTF is the problem with google & yahoo. All of my searches kept coming up with garbage that has nothing to do with what I wanted to find out. Total garbage, mostly advertising. This never happens when I want to research Tom Brady's passing stats or whatever. WTF.

[slacker00]

JMBA- Jamba Juice

Dude, you might want to repick. Need at least $1B market cap. Here's yours: Market Cap: 140.97M

I saw a few others that were under the market cap but forgot which ones. Double check if you're not sure. I'm sure you'll be disqualified if you're under the $1B.

[Cabo]

MEMC Electronics - WFR

[RageWizard]

Hey moderator dude or dudette, is there going to be a chart showing the progress of our picks against one another?

[clcoyle93]

XOM

Exxon Mobile CP

[rake922]

this is basically a year long contest?

[Wrigley]

My stock up 15% today
ETFC

[HAPPY BOY]

(siri) Sirius satellite radio

[slacker00]

Mbi

I think you can hand this guy the prize right now. MBI has doubled in 2 days.

[robzilla]

Starbucks Corp. (SBUX) ... going to announce free refills

[Wrigley]

Starbucks Corp. (SBUX) ... going to announce free refills

They are soon going to have $1 coffee on their menu, McDonalds has taken some of their coffee business from them.

So they are fighting back

[Cabo]

They are soon going to have $1 coffee on their menu, McDonalds has taken some of their coffee business from them.

So they are fighting back

I'll pay a buck for their coffee, not $4

[Wrigley]

I'll pay a buck for their coffee, not $4

It wont be the good stuff, but Ill give it a try being tested in seattle right now.

[shady610]

i like the starbucks pick

[picantel]

Is there a sticky or something somewhere showing who has what picks and the price on the 21st? Thread is getting buried.

[Poker_Beast]

Sucks that I missed this contest, good luck all who entered.

[Red_Sux]

how about ford motors

[picantel]

Another bump. Heya John can you post the players and the prices they started out with maybe in the contest section. thx

[Dark Horse]

Let's extend the contest to a five stock portfolio, and increase the prize money by a similar margin.

[pavyracer]

Who's winning in this contest so far? Can we get any updates people?

[picantel]

I pmed John but he has not responded.

[pokernut9999]

bump

[Cabo]

Who's winning in this contest so far? Can we get any updates people?

The stock MBIA was up over 80%, that is probably your leader.

[Iwinyourmoney]

The guy who picked MBI didn't follow the rules.

In this thread you must put a company name and a stock symbol.

[slacker00]

The guy who picked MBI didn't follow the rules.

Wow. Talk about nitpicking. But, by the letter of the rules, you're right. lmao

If this disqualifies the guy, helluva bad break, IMO.

But, yeah, I guess I can see it, either way.

[Cabo]

This didn't quite work out how I had hoped.

The 2nd to last number in each row is the % gain/loss since the contest began.
example, MBIA is up 79.65%

MBIA Incorporated 1.000 8.550 8.550 15.36 6.81 79.65 -11.87
Rite Aid Corporation 1.000 2.050 2.050 3.11 1.06 51.71 16.13
Countrywide Financia 1.000 4.960 4.960 7.22 2.26 45.56 -19.24
Newcastle Investment 1.000 9.080 9.080 12.91 3.83 42.18 4.48
Toll Brothers, Inc. 1.000 17.290 17.290 22.35 5.06 29.27 18.25
Jamba, Inc. 1.000 2.340 2.340 2.93 0.59 25.21 -18.92
********** Incorpora 1.000 174.620 174.620 216.00 41.38 23.70 0.43
Cree, Inc. 1.000 25.780 25.780 31.39 5.61 21.76 9.21
Dick's Sporting Good 1.000 26.180 26.180 31.79 5.61 21.43 18.62
Citigroup, Inc. 1.000 24.450 24.450 29.22 4.77 19.51 0.38
RadioShack Corporati 1.000 14.430 14.430 16.96 2.53 17.53 3.21
Wilmington Trust Com 1.000 29.660 29.660 34.36 4.70 15.85 0.98
Sirius Satellite Rad 1.000 2.830 2.830 3.27 0.44 15.55 9.24
Wachovia Corporation 1.000 30.800 30.800 35.51 4.71 15.29 1.92
Valspar Corporation 1.000 18.130 18.130 20.51 2.38 13.13 -8.39
MEMC Electronic Mate 1.000 65.830 65.830 74.18 8.35 12.68 -14.96
Merrill Lynch & Comp 1.000 51.870 51.870 57.73 5.86 11.30 8.70
American Express Com 1.000 43.610 43.610 47.66 4.05 9.29 -4.32
Blue Coat Systems, I 1.000 24.580 24.580 26.86 2.28 9.28 -18.98
Moog, Inc. 1.000 41.630 41.630 45.47 3.84 9.22 2.49
Qualcomm, Inc. 1.000 38.350 38.350 41.85 3.50 9.13 7.24
Freeport-McMoRan Cop 1.000 84.130 84.130 91.18 7.05 8.38 -9.52
3M Company 1.000 74.910 74.910 80.57 5.66 7.56 -3.69
Polymet Mining Corp. 1.000 2.730 2.730 2.90 0.17 6.23 -11.50
Boeing Company 1.000 78.400 78.400 82.90 4.50 5.74 -4.94
Barrick Gold Corpora 1.000 46.730 46.730 49.35 2.62 5.61 17.36
Microvision, Inc. 1.000 2.540 2.540 2.68 0.14 5.51 -34.87
Gamestop Corporation 1.000 49.320 49.320 52.00 2.68 5.43 -15.14
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc 1.000 47.580 47.580 50.07 2.49 5.23 7.68
Research in Motion, 1.000 88.580 88.580 93.17 4.59 5.18 -18.66
International Busine 1.000 103.400 103.400 107.93 4.53 4.38 0.10
Costco Wholesale Cor 1.000 64.530 64.530 66.98 2.45 3.80 -2.82
Lawson Software, Inc 1.000 8.510 8.510 8.80 0.29 3.41 -12.60
Starbucks Corporatio 1.000 18.660 18.660 19.19 0.53 2.84 -6.11
Berkshire Hathaway I 1.000 4,405.000 4,405.000 4,501.00 96.00 2.18 -4.50
The Blackstone Group 1.000 18.670 18.670 18.83 0.16 0.86 -15.41
Yamana Gold, Inc. 1.000 15.070 15.070 15.19 0.12 0.80 22.80
ExxonMobil Corporati 1.000 85.080 85.080 85.44 0.36 0.42 -8.26
Diamond Offshore Dri 1.000 117.540 117.540 117.46 -0.08 -0.07 -18.35
Baidu.com, Inc. 1.000 273.040 273.040 272.28 -0.76 -0.28 -30.84
Nortel Networks Corp 1.000 12.740 12.740 12.70 -0.04 -0.31 -15.90
Evergreen Solar, Inc 1.000 11.820 11.820 11.77 -0.05 -0.42 -29.30
Altria Group Inc. 1.000 75.420 75.420 75.07 -0.35 -0.46 -0.19
Reynolds American, I 1.000 65.780 65.780 64.81 -0.97 -1.47 -2.06
Cisco Systems, Inc. 1.000 24.300 24.300 23.82 -0.48 -1.98 -7.87
Transocean, Inc. 1.000 128.410 128.410 125.69 -2.72 -2.12 -13.00
Abbott Laboratories 1.000 59.430 59.430 58.05 -1.38 -2.32 3.04
Coeur D'Alene Mines 1.000 4.610 4.610 4.42 -0.19 -4.12 -7.09
WellPoint, Inc. 1.000 82.880 82.880 78.80 -4.08 -4.92 -10.13
Millennium Pharmaceu 1.000 15.900 15.900 15.00 -0.90 -5.66 2.54
EMC Corporation 1.000 16.980 16.980 16.01 -0.97 -5.71 -12.64
Electronic Arts, Inc 1.000 49.420 49.420 46.53 -2.89 -5.85 -16.76
Humana 1.000 84.350 84.350 78.98 -5.37 -6.37 8.01
Cerner Corporation 1.000 52.710 52.710 48.73 -3.98 -7.55 -16.61
United Therapeutics 1.000 94.610 94.610 87.14 -7.47 -7.90 -12.45
Microsoft Corporatio 1.000 33.010 33.010 30.19 -2.82 -8.54 -14.47
E-House (China) Hold 1.000 20.000 20.000 18.27 -1.73 -8.65 -20.77
FMC Technologies, In 1.000 53.380 53.380 48.12 -5.26 -9.85 -13.86
ArthroCare Corporati 1.000 47.050 47.050 39.30 -7.75 -16.47 -18.29
Google, Inc. 1.000 600.250 600.250 496.03 -104.22 -17.36 -25.39
Apple, Inc. 1.000 161.360 161.360 131.65 -29.71 -18.41 -33.54
Suntron 1.000 2.840 2.840 0.00 --- --- ---
UBX 1.000 40.000 40.000 0.00 --- --- ---
KRI.TO 1.000 1.280 1.280 0.00 --- --- ---

SBR Contest 7,979.970 8,005.64 69.79 0.87 -7.40

[Dark Horse]

STP - Suntech from 56.96 to 57.24 for a whopping +0.49%.

Slow starter.

[rugbybdyb]

Lets see if this looks better