I am excited to announce the winners of the April Contest at Value Investing News.

Win one of the three copies of The Little Book That Builds Wealth that we are giving away in April!

I am pleased to announce the winners of the March Contest at Value Investing News. The winners are:

This month I will be giving away three premium memberships to Fat Pitch Financials Contributor's Corner, the best online source for going private transactions, odd lot tender offers, and other special situation opportunities on the web.

The winners of the February contest sponsored by Covestor are as follows:

            As you may have seen, I wrote up an article at the end of last year on FBR Group, a small cap financial stock that had fallen very hard in the past few years as it got involved in the subprime and structured finance mess.   My main thesis was that the stock was mispriced, extremely cheap, and available at a substantial margin of safety.  As they reported their 4th quarter results today, my belief in a margin of safety came to fruition as the write downs were aplenty, and total asset value has changed, but the company is doing fine.

Monster stock Turkcell is a provider of communication services. I say monster because of their market cap which is 21 billion. They sell wireless phone subscription and internet internet access. They have the right combination of a few things I pay close attention to in a large company. First, they generate a lot of free cash flow. Management is growing shareholder equity.

This month's sponsor of the Value Investing News user contest is Covestor. Founded on the belief that successful investment strategy is not the sole province of money management firms, Covestor provides a unique destination for proven self-investors to share real investment decisions, gain recognition and eventually earn fees as others invest directly alongside them.

Use Covestor to track your own investment performance, and track the live trades of other members for free. To ensure privacy, all data is normalized and members can choose to remain anonymous.

Covestor provided the following prizes for the February Value Investing News Member's Contest:

I am pleased to announce the January Contest winners here at Value Investing News. Drum roll please... The winners with the most user points earned in January are:

"I know that for myself it makes no difference whether I do or forbear those actions which are reckoned excellent. I cannot consent to pay for a privilege where I have intrinsic right. Few and mean as my gifts may be, I actually am, and do not need for my own assurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony." 

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

The springbok of southern Africa, combined with some simple mathematics, yields useful lessons for investors.  A springbok is a deer-like animal that, according to Wikipedia, forms some of the largest migratory herds ever recorded.  Imagine now that you are a springbok in a herd with 99 other identical springbok walki

This month's sponsor is SmallCapInvestor.com, a destination website for individual investors who are seeking independent, reliable and wide-ranging news, research, and analysis on small cap stocks.

The editors of SmallCapInvestor.com have just launched a new independent investment advisory, Top Stock Insights, to cover mid and large stocks with the potential to consistently outperform the market. They also just produce the Top 10 stocks for 2008 report. More about Top Stock Insights can be found at www.TopStockInsights.com.

Here are this month's prizes for the Value Investing News Member's Contest:

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Thank you everyone for making 2007 such a great year here at Value Investing News. To help celebrate, I'm happy to announce the December Contest winners.