Stupidity is contagious. It gets us all from time to time. Even respectable companies can catch it. As I do every week, let's take a look at five dumb financial events this week that may make your head spin.

1. Mickey louse
Yesterday wasn't a good day for Disney (NYSE: DIS).

For starters, the family entertainment giant accidentally sent out its quarterly earnings to some financial media outlets several minutes before it released it to the general public after the market close.

Adding insult to injury, the results weren't that hot. In a rare stumble since Bob Iger took over as CEO, Disney failed to exceed analysts' expectations for a fiscal fourth-quarter profit of $0.46 a share -- which would have been flat with last year's showing. Plagued by profit shortfalls at its theme-park and cable subsidiaries, Disney could only muster an adjusted profit of $0.45 a share.

Sometimes the news is so bad that it just can't wait to come out.

2. Where's my free boost?
Jamba (Nasdaq: JMBA) also came up short this week, missing analysts' targets for flat earnings growth from the parent company behind the Jamba Juice smoothie chain. Worse yet, the shortfall happened in Jamba's seasonally strongest quarter of the year.

Worryingly, comps fell by 2.7% during the quarter. Same-unit sales had declined by 5.3% in 2009 and 10.3% in 2008. The trend may seem to point toward narrower comp declines, but that's not how investors should view things. Since the declines are compounded, the smoothie chain's average store is ringing up roughly 17% less than it was during 2007's third quarter, despite adding new coffee lines, breakfast items, and oatmeal.

3. Don't redeem this coupon
Rumors that Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) may buy social coupon site Groupon are making the rounds again this week, but this time at a much higher price.

Silicon Alley Insider's sources tell the tech blog that Yahoo! has told Groupon executives that it's willing to spend as much as $4 billion to acquire the popular home of city-specific flash deals.

While the acquisition may be a good way to wake up Yahoo!'s meandering performance, Groupon finished a financing round earlier this year that valued it at roughly $1.3 billion. Buying its way out of its organic malaise is fine for Yahoo!, but overpaying could be disastrous, given Groupon's surprisingly thin moat.

4. Sirius downgrade
Sirius XM Radio (Nasdaq: SIRI) is doing just fine, but has its stock gotten ahead of its fundamentals?

Gabelli analyst Brett Harriss seems to think so. He downgraded shares of the satellite radio giant after the past few months of gains, entirely on valuation concerns. Instead, Harriss suggests buying Liberty Capital (Nasdaq: LCAPA), which owns a 40% preferred share stake in Sirius XM, but trades at what his math makes out to be a 40% discount to Liberty Capital's overall net asset value.

Liberty Capital has been a compelling way to play Sirius XM since it bailed out the premium radio darling last year, but it also means that investors are banking on a stagnant cable provider, the Hallmark channel, the Atlanta Braves, and even Sirius XM CEO Mel Karmazin's former bosses at Viacom (NYSE: VIA).

5. Not as easy as A123
When you're a profitless maker of next-gen batteries for electric cars, there isn't a lot of wiggle room for disappointment. Investors of A123 Systems (Nasdaq: AONE) found out the hard way, when the company posted dismaying quarterly results.

The letdown isn't just about the numbers, since the pros expect red ink out of A123 for several more quarters. Until the country is bumper-to-bumper in electric cars running on lithium-ion battery packs, investors will forgive the losses. Unfortunately, A123 also revealed a delay in auto demand for its batteries.

That's a shock -- and not in a good way.

Which of these five moves do you think is the dumbest? Share your thoughts in the comment box below.