First Albany Companies, Inc.: Warming Up or Cooling Off?

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Together, we are all trying to build our fortune by finding well-run companies at bargain-basement prices. But it takes work -- scouring company earnings reports, scrutinizing key data, and assessing the competition.

Because of that, we've created a screen based on the massive data aggregated from the more than 140,000 investors competing on our Motley Fool CAPS platform. Each quarter, we check in on select companies after they file a 10-Q and track community sentiment -- so you can see how your company is doing.

Here's the community sentiment on First Albany Companies, Inc. (Nasdaq: BPSG) both this quarter and last (for comparison), as well as opinions on some related companies.

Metric	First Albany Companies, Inc. (Nasdaq: BPSG)	TRANSFORMA ACQUISITION GROUP (AMEX: TAQ)	Northern Trust Corp (Nasdaq: NTRS)	SEI Investments Company (Nasdaq: SEIC)
This Quarter (11/16/2009):
Price:	$6.77	$8.10	$47.91	$18.10
% of Members Rating Outperform	57%	33%	85%	96%
% of All-Star Members Rating Outperform	32%	%	77%	98%
CAPS Rating (out of 5)
Last Quarter (8/18/2009):
Price:	$6.30	$8.10	$60.09	$18.67
% of Members Rating Outperform	54%	33%	83%	95%
% of All-Star Members Rating Outperform	29%	%	81%	97%
CAPS Rating (out of 5)

Source: Motley Fool CAPS. Dates given are the posting dates of First Albany Companies, Inc.'s most recent quarterly and/or annual reports to the SEC's website. Percentages are calculated from the number of members rating each company.

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