Recs

11

American Oriental Bioengineering: Warming Up or Cooling Off?

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 American Oriental Bioengineering (NYSE: AOB  ) both this quarter and last (for comparison), as well as opinions on some related companies.

Metric American Oriental Bioengineering (NYSE: AOB  ) Tiens Biotech Group (USA), Inc. (AMEX: TBV  ) Nutraceutical Int'l Corp. (Nasdaq: NUTR  ) Bare Escentuals, Inc. (Nasdaq: BARE  )
This Quarter (11/16/2009):
Price: $4.29 $3.97 $12.40 $14.78
% of Members Rating Outperform 97% 94% 87% 91%
% of All-Star Members Rating Outperform 97% 94% 100% 92%
CAPS Rating (out of 5)
anImage
anImage
anImage
anImage
Last Quarter (8/18/2009):
Price: $5.24 $3.07 $10.70 $8.88
% of Members Rating Outperform 97% 93% 88% 92%
% of All-Star Members Rating Outperform 98% 94% 100% 95%
CAPS Rating (out of 5)
anImage
anImage
anImage
anImage

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

A change in the community's approval (signified by four- and five-star ratings) or disapproval (one- and two-star ratings) could indicate that further research is in order. To help make your research easier …

 

  • Share any thoughts you have about American Oriental -- or any of the other companies mentioned -- in the comments box below.
  • Head over to the completely free CAPS service -- a one-stop research shop -- and read what your fellow investors are saying about your stocks.


The Steve Jobs Betrayal
You may already know that in the final year of his life, Jobs revealed a stunning betrayal — and told his biographer, "I will spend my last dying breath... and every penny of Apple's $40 billion in the bank to right this wrong." What was it that made Jobs so irate — and why could it make a few in-the-know investors some major profits over the coming months and years?

Enter your email address below to find out what made Jobs so enraged!

As this was built out of a screen, no individual person selected the stocks in this article, so there is no author to disclose an interest in them. Since this article was automatically generated by identifying the stocks loved both by the CAPS community and by buyers in today's market, it is possible that Motley Fool personnel (and even The Motley Fool itself, through our Million Dollar Portfolio, Hidden Gems, Motley Fool Pro, and Ready Made Millionaire services) have positions in these stocks. We thought you'd like to know that. Learn more about The Motley Fool's disclosure policy.


Comments from our Foolish Readers

Help us keep this a respectfully Foolish area! This is a place for our readers to discuss, debate, and learn more about the Foolish investing topic you read about above. Help us keep it clean and safe. If you believe a comment is abusive or otherwise violates our Fool's Rules, please report it via the Report this Comment Report this Comment icon found on every comment.

  • Report this Comment On November 24, 2009, at 12:13 PM, Lostnconfused wrote:

    Warming or cooling?..... For me it is cooling, since it went through my stop. I guess I shouldn't feel so bad though. It is a 5 star stock.....hmmm

  • Report this Comment On November 24, 2009, at 3:52 PM, aristide07 wrote:

    I would say that 5 stars may appear to put a stock in a favorable position to be bought. However, the majority can be dead wrong at times. Which goes to show, " Nothing is for sure and a 5 star stock can be trash."

  • Report this Comment On November 24, 2009, at 8:26 PM, Riot5000 wrote:

    How long has Motley Fool been pumping this stock?

    After they lose tons of money, they then turn against AOB and make sure it never gets off the Penny stock list, ever again.

    Way to go MF.

    I bet you do not know any more crap than any stock picking monkey, but shhhhhh, don't tell your brood of idiots who keep listening to you and losing all their shirts.

  • Report this Comment On November 25, 2009, at 2:36 AM, lukesaber2 wrote:

    This stock has strong fundamentals and is at a very low price. For those of you that expect a stock to rise after YOU buy it just because it has a 5 star rating then you need to really re-think your trading strategy. Give the stock a year or two. It can't stay at this price with double digit returns and earnings growth AND a book value of 4.41 a share.(assuming the growth and returns continue) If this stock drops much lower it will have more cash per share than the stock price. I personally think the stock is down because big money is very short term. The company recently made big investments which hurts the cash flow numbers and the market is waiting for that investment/expansion to start showing returns.

  • Report this Comment On November 25, 2009, at 8:11 AM, johnnytwodog wrote:

    AOB also has a P/E of 6.

    Motley says they have been scouring China to find bargain stocks with P/E's less than 11. Yet, Motley has orgasms over China Green Agriculture (CGA) with a P/E of 19, and bashes AOB.

    The fact is, AOB has had, and continues to have, explosive growth and profits. At less than $4/share it is a bargain.

  • Report this Comment On November 25, 2009, at 10:14 AM, aristide07 wrote:

    Sometimes you buy a stock and you hold it and hold it and hold it as it goes down, while you see others go up.

    After a time you get thoroughly disgusted and say "To hell with it". At this point, you just do not give a damn what the stock will do. So you sell it and hope that you can purchase a stock that will treat you better.

    All stocks can go up or down at a given point. You try to put the odds in your favor and just like in gambling, nothing is certain. Unexpected events can happen anytime and change the outcome.

  • Report this Comment On November 27, 2009, at 12:46 AM, amoneynorth wrote:

    there is a reason why this stock is traded way below peer group. Low p/e doesn't mean anything. The problem is the mgmt

  • Report this Comment On December 01, 2009, at 10:36 AM, Viking70 wrote:

    I have to agree with amoneynorth. After listening to AOB's quaterly earnings conference call, I lost alot of faith in AOB because management just didn't seem to have any clear ideas of how to increase shareholder value. I still have my shares and will hold thru the next the quarter and re-evaluate, but this is one case where the low PE appears to be justified.

  • Report this Comment On December 09, 2009, at 11:22 PM, Fool wrote:

    I don't know if I have EVER seen a story about this stock that wasn't from the FOOL. Seriously, why are you pimping it so hard?

    P/E, hooray for that. I am pretty sure Google Owners would say their are more important things. A long time ago, before I realized the FOOL's real agenda I bought some AOB.

Add your comment.

Compare Brokers

Fool Disclosure

DocumentId: 1051761, ~/Articles/ArticleHandler.aspx, 5/25/2012 9:30:40 PM

Report This Comment

Use this area to report a comment that you believe is in violation of the community guidelines. Our team will review the entry and take any appropriate action.

Sending report...

Today's Market

updated 14 minutes ago Sponsored by:
DOW 12,454.83 -74.92 -0.60%
S&P 500 1,317.82 -2.86 -0.22%
NASD 2,837.53 -1.85 -0.07%

Create My Watchlist

Go to My Watchlist

You don't seem to be following any stocks yet!

Better investing starts with a watchlist. Now you can create a personalized watchlist and get immediate access to the personalized information you need to make successful investing decisions.

Data delayed up to 5 minutes

Related Tickers

3/15/2012 3:59 PM
AOB $1.52 Down +0.00 +0.00%
American Oriental… CAPS Rating: ***

Advertisement