These are the days that value and dividend investors long for. There have been times in the past where I struggled to find stocks worthy of purchasing. Now, the challenge is to pick the best available stocks that will maximize my chances of future success.

A roundup of last week's stock market related blog posts hosted at Fat Pitch Financials.

The Media sector contains a wide range of business models, some very attractive to the Magic Formula, and some very unattractive. In this article I examine each of the sub-sectors, separating the wheat from the chaff, and explain what to look for in a good MFI Media company.

Barron's cover story this week that looks at 10 potentially inexpensive stocks that may be worth investing in this down market.

Viacom and CBS shareholders are better off since the company split a year and a half ago, Sumner Redstone told CNBC's Maria Bartiromo.

John Bethel reviews the performance of the Controlled Greed portfolio for the first quarter of 2007. Overall, the group was up 4.6% vs. the S&P being up about 0.2% for Q1 of '07.

Wall Street and the private market may differ substantially in their valuations of a business, and that’s an opportunity for the Boyar Value Fund. The fund aims to buy businesses at a significant discount to their intrinsic value with the idea that, over time, the market will value them appropriately, or they will be acquired. Relying on in-depth fundamental research, the manager Mark Boyar runs

John Bethel reviews a CNNMoney.com article discussing two media stocks he owns: Comcast (CMCSK) and CBS (CBS). John thinks "Comcast is doing pretty darn good", though he reminds readers that "we're still in the early innings with ALL these holdings".