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Attention spans are short. It pays to be succinct. Here are five stock breakdowns in 140 characters or less. Hat tip to Twitter.

Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ  )
Temporary weakness due to manufacturing problems. Maker of Tylenol, Band-Aids, Splenda trading for close to single-digit multiples is nice.

Sirius XM (Nasdaq: SIRI  )
Balance sheet? LOL. Improving profitability by merger and cost-cutting is encouraging. Still, 19.5 million subs and that’s all you got?

Jones Soda (Nasdaq: JSDA  )
High around $28 a share. Now close to $1. Bleeding cash. Balance sheet OK. Coca-Cola (NYSE: KO  ) this ain’t.

MGM (NYSE: MGM  )
Vegas, baby. High-roller debt levels. Big bet on City Center project. Roll the dice on this casino?

Tesla (Nasdaq: TSLA  )
Hot IPO for electric car maker. Market cap of $2 billion for just over $100 million in sales. Hard to meet those expectations.

Those were mine. Share yours in the comments section below.

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Anand Chokkavelu doesn't own shares in any company mentioned. You can follow him on Twitter. Coca-Cola is a Motley Fool Inside Value pick. Johnson & Johnson and Coca-Cola are Motley Fool Income Investor picks. Motley Fool Options has recommended buying calls on Johnson & Johnson. The Fool owns shares of Coca-Cola. The Fool has a disclosure policy.


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  • Report this Comment On August 05, 2010, at 8:07 PM, Fredlee009 wrote:

    Ill tell you the quality of this article in 140 characters or less.

    If you can sum up ANY company in that frame, you wouldnt be working for TSCM. Youd be a billionaire.

    Anyone listening to someone who claims they can, and gathering information for such attempt, is sadder.

    Thanks for making the community dumber daily.

  • Report this Comment On August 05, 2010, at 11:15 PM, ClutchNut wrote:

    Why don't you post your picture with the article so we can see what an incompetent ars looks like.

  • Report this Comment On August 05, 2010, at 11:58 PM, brrrfox wrote:

    Investing in tesla will lose you your teslacles.

  • Report this Comment On August 06, 2010, at 7:58 AM, midnightmoney wrote:

    I do recall an article written by the mf chiding Cramer for relying on soundbites as substitutes for actual analysis. Then again, one of your writers the other day gave us an ethics lesson on why banks are evil and should be considered "sin" stocks. Her elaboration on the nefarious institutions took up about 50 words. The conclusion my partner and I came to was if you are writers, then write, and leave us to struggle with the deluge of information; In fact, we'd welcome it. If your policy is publish or perish, then there's something wrong with the policy, at least where the information itself isn't perishable, which the above here is certainly not. If you can't be consistent as a publication then you probably haven't got much of a policy, and your site is just a place where writers publish their thoughts, but not necessarily those of the mf. That would be great, if it were the case...Perhaps the mf policy is complicated and should be explained in the form of an article so people like us, who are really tuned in to what you are saying, can understand where you are coming from and savour the contradictions rather than be left scratching our heads.

    --still grateful and intrigued

  • Report this Comment On August 06, 2010, at 8:17 AM, karaokejb wrote:

    5 (6) in less than 140

    JNJ OTT

    SIRI SYL

    jdsa noyl

    KO OK

    MGM BOB

    TSLA TNSTAAFL

    http://www.webopedia.com/quick_ref/textmessageabbreviations....

  • Report this Comment On August 06, 2010, at 9:31 AM, TMFBomb wrote:

    For the record, this article is meant to be fun...clearly you can't do a thorough analysis in 140 characters or less. It's why I linked to other articles for most of the companies.

    My hope was that folks would post their own.

    Fool on,

    Anand

  • Report this Comment On August 06, 2010, at 11:18 AM, karaokejb wrote:

    This would be a perfect avenue for weekly linking of analysis of stocks. Ticker (w/Link) name followed by text messaging description of article's conclusion. The piece would be more topical and give a line in the sand approach for individuals who use Author's opinions (CRINGE) as a means of investing.

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