Less than four years after the its founding and two years after the nationwide launch of its lending exchange, LendingTree raised its first round of capital in the public markets. A month later, in March 2000, the market began its brutal slide, creating two favorable conditions, collapsing advertising rates and declining mortgage rates, that LendingTree, […]
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[TREX] Trex
[scuttlebits] Trex is getting cheap
TREX is down nearly 60% since I first profiled the company last August. You’d think [...]
Continue reading →[FOUR] Shift4
[scuttlebit] yet another Shift4 take
MBI and I recorded an episode of Never Sell recently (The Big Tech Capex Debate, Amazon Retail, Align’s [...]
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Continue reading →scuttlebits [FI] Fiserv
[scuttlebit] Fiserv’s October Massacre
What are scuttlebits? On the heels of my Global Payments post, another boomer payments stock [...]
Continue reading →[AZEK] Azek [JHX] James Hardie
[JHX] Will James Hardie’s big acquisition pay off?
In last summer’s building materials series, I explained how branded manufacturers, like James Hardie in [...]
Continue reading →scuttlebits [GWRE] Guidewire Software
[scuttlebit] Guidewire scales
What are scuttlebits? Nowhere is the insurance industry’s notorious resistance to change more evident than [...]
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