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CSS Industries, Inc. (CSS)

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A consumer products company engaged in the design, manufacture, procurement, distribution and sale of seasonal and social expression products, principally to mass market retailers.

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CSS Industries, Inc. At A Glance

Current Price: $16.74
Last Trade Time: 2/9/2010 4:02 PM
Open: $17.16
Previous Close: $16.92
Daily Range: $16.72 - $17.18
52-Week Range: $10.02 - $27.28
Volume: 7,953
Market Cap: $161.85M
P/E Ratio: 13.54
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Avatar tuckerboreo (98.00) Submitted: 1/24/10 2:48 PM : Outperform Start Price: $16.90 CSS Score: -0.10

This stock is being effected by the recession. As conditions improve it will do well. Currently paying a 3.5% dividend and very little debt. Worth waiting for, likely 40-50% upside within a year.

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Avatar spreadsheetV1 (94.05) Submitted: 11/23/09 1:32 AM : Outperform Start Price: $19.06 CSS Score: -9.01

This met a high level screen to indicate a buy and strong outperform against its peers (other tickers in its industry). My 1st version of this spreadsheet devles deep into the company's balnace sheet and recent income statements, combined with other relevant price data for the company including insider/institutional holdings, short interest, debt levels, etc.
Testing capabilities of this 1st version of my automated, valuation spreadhseet matched with my personal criteria and see how it holds up.

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Avatar ALPHADividend (93.21) Submitted: 4/16/09 1:11 AM : Outperform Start Price: $18.68 CSS Score: -36.45

This company appears to offer a solid opportunity as of today (April 2009).
The company is trading below reported book value and is paying high dividends. Additionally the company operates outside of the FIRE (financial insurance real estate) sector of the economy, so chances are, what you see is what you get. I've personally screened this company to ensure it did not expand excessively during the hot years (2004-2008).
This company was found today via google screener with the following criteria:
atleast 100m market cap or more
has fallen more than 45% past 1yr
dividend payers @3% or more
atleast 25% institutionally held
price to book less than 1
have total debt/assets less than 100%
have total debt/equity less than 100%
personally screened to make sure the companies were not FIRE industries (financial/insurance/real estate), oil commodity related, industrial metal commodities related, sea shipping related
personally verified limitation on expansion during boom years (not excessive BS growth from '04-'08)

the resulting dividend companies to buy are:
AM, BRC, CBS, CBT, CDI, CSS, GLT, HRC, KELYA, LYTS, MEI, MWV, SXI, TKR, UVV

conversely I will be looking to short opportunities with opposite criteria.

This will be the primary focus of this profile, to seek & obtain alpha from long/short dividend opportunities across various industries.
- ALPHADividend

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Avatar hdeamer (77.66) Submitted: 2/13/09 6:16 PM : Outperform Start Price: $14.85 CSS Score: -23.40

a 2-9

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Avatar OpesPerPrudentia (97.94) Submitted: 1/26/09 8:33 PM : Underperform Start Price: $16.52 CSS Score: 28.38

This whole industry is going to be erased in the middle of '09. You're looking at the heaviest rock of the bunch.

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