Does MagicDiligence add value to the Magic Formula Investing strategy? A comparison against the raw screens.

R.H. Donnelly's $2 stock represents a risky but attractive way to bet on the continued profitability of publishing yellow pages according to Barron's. I'm not so convinced that the yellow page publishers aren't a value trap.

A review of MagicDiligence's performance through the first six months of existence.

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.

Some poor choices under Greenblatt's Magic Formula screen. Lists some criteria for determining a good Magic Formula stock from a bad one.

"Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ) said Wednesday its board has approved a spinoff of the telephone company's print and online yellow pages business to stockholders as a new public company named Idearc Inc (IAR)." One share of Idearc will be distributed for every 20 shares of Verizon stock held at the close of business on November 1st. The actual spin-off is scheduled for November 17th. The spun-off business would consist of approximately "1,750 directory books, including 1,200 Verizon-branded publications with a circulation of 121 million copies".