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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

Guidance Changes: Our Most Timely Buy Firsts

Dec 1, 2014 by Tom Jacobs

Guidance Changes: Our Most Timely Buy Firsts

A proliferation of great opportunities -- and consequent Buy First ratings among Special Ops stocks -- has created a potentially confusing array of choices, so we're winnowing to help you better choose places for new money and changing five of our Buy Firsts to Buys.

Sell Partial Stake in Extendicare

Dec 1, 2014 by Tom Jacobs

Sell Partial Stake in Extendicare

The catalyst for this owner-operator of health-care facilities materialized, but in a way that left us feeling ill. With our investment case mooted and with Special Ops roughly even on the position, we will sell in parts.

Projected Stock Returns Leave You Cold? Adopt an Orphan!

Nov 24, 2014 by Tom Jacobs

Projected Stock Returns Leave You Cold? Adopt an Orphan!

Data suggest that from current levels, the S&P 500 could produce negative returns for years. Whether those projections prove accurate or not, it's always right to adopt an orphan stock.

Oil Price Drop Makes Sprott Resource's Q3 Ancient History

Nov 21, 2014 by Tom Jacobs

Oil Price Drop Makes Sprott Resource's Q3 Ancient History

Sprott Resource's net asset value had been flattish or rising for a long while -- but it's dropped 21% in the past seven weeks. Oil is the culprit, but Special Ops thinks Sprott's balance sheet can take a lot of beating.

CorEnergy’s Big Deal, Dividend Hike, and Giveaway Price

Nov 19, 2014 by Tom Jacobs

CorEnergy’s Big Deal, Dividend Hike, and Giveaway Price

The small-cap REIT's largest deal yet gives it a growing asset base and dividend yield but at a value price.

Sweet to the CORR: CorEnergy's Spot-on Q3

Nov 14, 2014 by Tom Jacobs

Sweet to the CORR: CorEnergy's Spot-on Q3

Why this stock sells for a low price to FFO, yields 7%, and is ignored, is beyond us. With results like these, it should sell for at least 50% more. Good for us!

Nuverra’s Q3: Boomerang or Buzzard’s Bait?

Nov 13, 2014 by Tom Jacobs

Nuverra’s Q3: Boomerang or Buzzard’s Bait?

It's possible that Nuverra can survive long enough to improve its balance sheet and liquidity, but the clock is ticking. Special Ops strongly advises against taking any new position in the company.

NOW's Third Quarter: Good News Now About Later

Nov 10, 2014 by Tom Jacobs

NOW's Third Quarter: Good News Now About Later

As NOW shakes off the costs of being a National Oilwell Varco spinoff, lovely times are ahead.

How Special Ops Practices for the Next Bear Market

Nov 10, 2014 by Tom Jacobs

How Special Ops Practices for the Next Bear Market

The current bull is 68 months old. Here's how Special Ops prepares for the next bear market's clearance sale -- whenever it comes.

Herbalife's Third Quarter: Ouch?

Nov 4, 2014 by Tom Jacobs

Herbalife's Third Quarter: Ouch?

Operating expenses jumped 50% year over year. That can blow a hole in your quarter and the stock too. But these expenses are investments in a more prosperous future.

8 Companies, 5 Days: The Amazing Non-Election Race

Nov 3, 2014 by Tom Jacobs

8 Companies, 5 Days: The Amazing Non-Election Race

Half of Special Ops' companies will report their earnings this week. Here's a guide to what we expect -- and how you can follow along.

Ultra Petroleum's Catalytic Moment

Nov 3, 2014 by Tom Jacobs

Ultra Petroleum's Catalytic Moment

Ultra Petroleum is a better company than at any time Special Ops has owned it and in every category. The third quarter was transformational. We can wait for others to figure it out.

Buy Hertz Global Holdings

Oct 30, 2014 by Tom Jacobs

Buy Hertz Global Holdings

Taking a spin in pre-spinoff Hertz today is like driving a Corvette with the safety of a truck: all the fun and little downside.

What's a 'Cheap' Stock, Anyway?

Oct 20, 2014 by Tom Jacobs

What's a 'Cheap' Stock, Anyway?

Special Ops buys special situations -- value stocks with catalysts. We talk at length about the corporate actions that are catalysts, but what about the value? Here are four ways to identify cheapness.

Reducing Our Guidance on Sprott Resource

Oct 17, 2014 by Tom Jacobs

Reducing Our Guidance on Sprott Resource

With oil stocks battered by oil's crash, one of Sprott's major holdings has fallen over 40%. This changes Sprott's net asset value and Special Ops' calculation of reward and risk.

How to Build a Special Ops Position (With Guidance Changes)

Oct 13, 2014 by Tom Jacobs

How to Build a Special Ops Position (With Guidance Changes)

You want to ask out a Special Ops stock, but how to start? Don't be shy. Here's how to build a relationship.

Surviving the Bull Market's Siren Song

Oct 6, 2014 by Tom Jacobs

Surviving the Bull Market's Siren Song

The music of outsize returns on risky stocks is most alluring to investors just when it's the most dangerous. But Special Ops has a plan to survive.

The Bull Market’s Drunken Captain

Sep 29, 2014 by Tom Jacobs

The Bull Market’s Drunken Captain

With investors paying little heed to risk, what happens when this bull market runs aground? And how does Special Ops keep its navigation true?

Buy More Extendicare

Sep 16, 2014 by Tom Jacobs and Jim Royal

Buy More Extendicare

Extendicare offers among the best estimated annualized returns for Special Ops money today. This stock is already our second-largest position, but we're willing to boost positions when the probabilities for annualized returns versus risk are especially strong.

Sell Compuware

Sep 16, 2014 by Tom Jacobs

Sell Compuware

A private equity firm is buying the company for the price (including dividends received) Special Ops pegged to be the downside. Not the result we'd hoped for, but we're even. The money is best invested elsewhere.

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