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Zacks.com submits:

Winn-Dixie Stores Inc. (WINN) reported fiscal 2010 fourth-quarter results after the closing bell on Monday. Net income jumped 48.8% to $14.0 million or 25 cents per share from $9.4 million or 17 cents per share in the year-ago period. Quarterly earnings also surpassed the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 13 cents. The growth in earnings was mainly attributable to an extra week of sales and absence of a significant income tax expense recorded in the year-ago period. (See conference call transcript here.)

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Cash Flows Commence in China and Nigeria for Camac Energy

Posted by admin On August - 31 - 2010

After recently restructuring, junior oil and gas producer Camac Energy (CAK) is looking like a very solid emerging company. The company recently reported its first operating revenues from the Oyo Oilfield, offshore Nigeria and from the commercialization of its Enhanced Oil Recovery and Production (EORP) technology in China. At the same time, Camac benefits from a strong balance sheet, with assets of $419.5 million, no debt and cash and cash equivalents of $22 million.

The Oyo Oilfield is currently the major producing asset owned by CAK and was purchased from Camac Energy Holdings Ltd. for a 62.74% interest in the company. This was made up of 89.5 million shares in CAK, plus two cash payments for a total of $38.84 million. Oyo is located 75 miles offshore from Nigeria in 200-500 meter deep water. The Oilfield has two wells that currently produce from 12,000 to 20,000 barrels of oil per day, and gas of 15 MMCF per day and is operated by ENI/Agip, a major worldwide energy company. Oyo uses a floating production storage and offloading vessel rated at 40,000 barrels per day, with storage capacity of 1 million barrels connected to subsea wellheads. The 10 year development plan for the field envisions the drilling of 2 additional production wells.

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UC Resources Ltd. Begins Drilling at Xora Claim, Mexico

Posted by admin On August - 31 - 2010

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA– UC Resources Ltd. (TSX VENTURE:UC) (“UC”) is pleased to update exploration activities at the Xora claim which is situated three kilometres from the La Yesca mill site.

Drilling has now commenced on the La Colorada vein with an initial three drill locations spotted based on Induced Polarization ground geophysics as well as estimation of the directional geological trend gathered from the La Colorada mine opening some 180 metres from our initial drill target. Both down dip and step out drilling will be conducted should the visual interpretation of the core warrant it.

To date, eight kilometres of mountain road has been constructed to access the top of the XORA claim and the road will continue to be driven to the remaining exploration targets, the El Mirador and Las Cuatas, which are also located near the peak of the Xora Mountain.

The area associated with the three initial drill targets have all historically been mined to varying extents, with La Colorada having a non-compliant 43-101 resources calculation which was compiled by the Mexican Ministry of Mines, by way of wall rock chip sampling, of 11,000 tonnes grading .7 g/t gold and 619 g/t silver.

The initial shallow drilling of these occurrences is intended to give guidance to a deeper and more thorough program with the intentions of building a resource capable of feeding future raw ore material to the La Yesca mill.

The first hole is presently at a depth of 160 metres of a planned 180 metre targeted depth. Of the 160 metres drilled to date, 62 metres has been sent for assay to ALS Chemex, Vancouver, through its prep lab in Guadalajara, Mexico.

Mr. Newton, PGeo, of Billiken Management Services Inc. and a qualified person pursuant to NI 43-101, has reviewed and approved the technical information in this news release on behalf of the company.

UC Resources is an active explorer of base metals and chromite in the McFaulds Lake area (“Ring of Fire”) of the James Bay Lowlands, Ontario, as well as an explorer and a near term producer of precious metals in Mexico.

On behalf of the Board of Directors,

Jim Voisin, President & CEO

UC Resources Ltd.

We seek safe harbour.

Investors are invited to visit the UC Resources IR Hub at http://www.agoracom.com/ir/UCResources where they can post questions and receive answers or review questions and answers already posted by other investors. Alternatively, investors are able to e-mail all questions and correspondence to UC@agoracom.com where they can also request to be added to the investor e-mail list to receive all future press releases and updates in real time.

For more information, please contact

UC Resources Ltd. – Vancouver Head Office
Damien Lowry
Toll Free: 1-800-366-8566 (Canada & USA)
www.ucresources.net

Managing Earnings or Managing Business?

Posted by admin On August - 31 - 2010

Saj Karsan submits:

Value investors are generally agreed that managements of going concerns should make their decisions based on long-term cash flow implications. Unfortunately, the pressures on managements to perform on a short-term earnings basis can push them to make decisions that are not in the best interests of shareholders. Consider Sterling Construction (STRL), a company that builds and repairs roads, highways and water infrastructure.

Due to the recession, the amount of work available for the company has declined, leaving it operating at a lower capacity. Idled equipment generates no revenue, but accrues charges for depreciation. This charge shows up on the income statement, but note that no actual cash charges occur (apart from any maintenance that is required).

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Motorcar Parts of America Is Cheap, but Is It Quality?

Posted by admin On August - 31 - 2010

Steve Alexander submits:

Business Summary

Motorcar Parts of America (MPAA) remanufactures vehicle alternators and starters ("cores") for the auto repair market, focusing primarily on the "do-it-yourself" (DIY) segment. MPAA sells over 90% of its remanufactured units through auto parts retail chains such as AutoZone (AZO) and Pep Boys (PBY), where they are sold under private labels. The remainder of sales come from professional installation warehouses, sold under the brand names Quality-Built, Talon, Xtreme, and Reliance. MPAA takes used, non-working cores that are turned in by customers for a credit, dis-assembles them for parts, and then re-assembles a new, working core using those parts and new ones. 96% of remanufactured cores in 2010 were replaced by used cores, and MPAA can usually produce 100 remanufactured cores from 120 used ones. Unusable leftover parts are sold to scrap yards.

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