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Tom Jacobs

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Tom Jacobs is the Lead Advisor and Portfolio Manager for Motley Fool Special Ops, a premium investment service specializing in event-driven value situations such as spinoffs. He is the co-author of What's Behind the Numbers? A Guide to Exposing Financial Chicanery and Avoiding Huge Losses in Your Portfolio (McGraw-Hill). He doesn't bite, except when teased.

Recent Articles by Tom Jacobs

5 Powerful Specialty Retailer Buybacks

Mar 13, 2014 by Tom Jacobs

5 Powerful Specialty Retailer Buybacks

When done best, buybacks increase EPS and boost the stock price more than organic growth would alone. Here are five specialty retailers buying back stock well for shareholders.

Avoid or Sell Drilling Rig Operators

Oct 23, 2013 by Tom Jacobs

Avoid or Sell Drilling Rig Operators

The years of $100 a barrel oil won't last. This could leave oil companies in the lurch and unable to afford drilling rig companies' sky-high daily rates. Investors in rig operators beware.

Eugene Fama's Nobel Prize: Right Person, Wrong Reason

Oct 23, 2013 by Tom Jacobs

Eugene Fama's Nobel Prize: Right Person, Wrong Reason

The Nobel Prize committee awarded Chicago's Eugene Fama a shared golden ticket for his and Kenneth French's work on the efficient-market hypothesis. But Fama and French, in later research, all but disowned EMH. EMH will appear on their headstones, but their real scoop was that small-cap value outperforms all other investing strategies.

Hope for Natural Gas Recovery?

Oct 9, 2013 by Tom Jacobs

Hope for Natural Gas Recovery?

Analytics firm Bentek Energy sees flat pricing for the next decade; but there could be near-term relief for these producers in the northeast.

Pipelines Packed, Rail to Reap Oil Riches

Jun 17, 2013 by Tom Jacobs

Pipelines Packed, Rail to Reap Oil Riches

With pipelines from Canada to the U.S. at full capacity, railroads pick up the slack to move cheaper Canadian heavy crude to thirsty Gulf Coast refiners. Profits are in store for these five companies.

4 Forgotten Refiners With Bright Futures

Jun 17, 2013 by Tom Jacobs

4 Forgotten Refiners With Bright Futures

Gulf Coast refineries have struggled for years. Now retrofitted for heavy crude, they are set to make money producing diesel and jet fuel, both offering greater profits than gasoline.

Bentek Energy Forecasts the Trade-Off of Natural Gas Versus Coal

Jun 11, 2013 by Tom Jacobs

Bentek Energy Forecasts the Trade-Off of Natural Gas Versus Coal

Natural gas dropped so much last year that power producers shuttered coal plants and ran their gas ones. But coal is hardly down. With gas prices back up, here are two small-cap and one large-cap coal and power potential winners.

Apart From the Herd: Forecast for 2013 Natural Gas Prices

Jun 3, 2013 by Tom Jacobs

Apart From the Herd: Forecast for 2013 Natural Gas Prices

Reduced production caused prices to rise, but that is likely a one-time event.

O Canada! U.S. Oil Gushes; Refiners Want Canadian

May 30, 2013 by Tom Jacobs

O Canada! U.S. Oil Gushes; Refiners Want Canadian

The U.S. is on the way to oil independence thanks to three massive shale plays. Problem? It's light, sweet crude, and the refiners' money's in the heavy stuff.

Google: Great Company, Red Flag Stock?

Apr 12, 2013 by Tom Jacobs

Google: Great Company, Red Flag Stock?

I have a major stock crush on Google, which stands in most ways above four significant competitors. But its troubling DSO trend reminds us that a great company still has a stock to analyze. Downside ahead?

Red Flag 3: Serial Acquisitions: Apples to Oranges

Mar 27, 2013 by Tom Jacobs and Rick Engdahl

Red Flag 3: Serial Acquisitions: Apples to Oranges

Author Tom Jacobs shows you how to identify financial shenanigans and profit from poor accounting.

What's Behind the Numbers: Learn Red Flags, Avoid Blowups

Mar 27, 2013 by Tom Jacobs and Rick Engdahl

What's Behind the Numbers: Learn Red Flags, Avoid Blowups

Author Tom Jacobs shows you how to identify financial shenanigans and profit from poor accounting.

Red Flag 1: Too Much Inventory, Writedown Ahead?

Mar 27, 2013 by Tom Jacobs and Rick Engdahl

Red Flag 1: Too Much Inventory, Writedown Ahead?

Author Tom Jacobs shows you how to identify financial shenanigans and profit from poor accounting.

All Red Flags Waving!

Mar 27, 2013 by Tom Jacobs and Rick Engdahl

All Red Flags Waving!

Author Tom Jacobs shows you how to identify financial shenanigans and profit from poor accounting.

Slay Your Fear of Shorting: Use Put Options to Know Your Risk

Mar 27, 2013 by Tom Jacobs and Rick Engdahl

Slay Your Fear of Shorting: Use Put Options to Know Your Risk

Author Tom Jacobs shows you how to identify financial shenanigans and profit from poor accounting.

Red Flag 2: Are Stock Options Making the Cash Flow Fake?

Mar 27, 2013 by Tom Jacobs and Rick Engdahl

Red Flag 2: Are Stock Options Making the Cash Flow Fake?

Author Tom Jacobs shows you how to identify financial shenanigans and profit from poor accounting.

Red Flag 4: Collecting the Revenue: Too Many Days' Sales Outstanding?

Mar 27, 2013 by Tom Jacobs and Rick Engdahl

Red Flag 4: Collecting the Revenue: Too Many Days' Sales Outstanding?

Author Tom Jacobs shows you how to identify financial shenanigans and profit from poor accounting.

ROIC Reduces Warrant Overhang, Boosts Huge Potential Stock Gains

Mar 15, 2013 by Tom Jacobs

ROIC Reduces Warrant Overhang, Boosts Huge Potential Stock Gains

A new development enhances this grocery-anchored shopping center REIT that already offers the best reward-to-risk opportunity and multiple catalysts in its class.

Top 10 Cash Offender Countdown: No. 3 to No. 1

Sep 27, 2012 by Tom Jacobs

Top 10 Cash Offender Countdown: No. 3 to No. 1

In our third and final blast of the companies whose stock-based comp is the highest percentage of operating cash flow, we reveal the worst three.

Top 10 Cash Offender Countdown: No. 6 to No. 4

Sep 26, 2012 by Tom Jacobs

Top 10 Cash Offender Countdown: No. 6 to No. 4

Sooner or later, operating cash flow that's all from adding back stock-based comp is unsustainable. Right now, there are 10 really bad offenders -- don't go near them.

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