JPS Industries

JPS Industries (website) trades on the pink sheets. I was reviewing some “dark” pink sheet companies I shortlisted about two years ago and noticed some interesting developments at this company. The company manufactures extruded urethanes, ethylene vinyl acetates and mechanically formed glass and aramid substrate materials. JPS Industries has two operating subsidiaries: JPS Composite Materials […]

Update on Japanese holdings

A nice current example of Mr. Market’s manic-depressive nature is the Japanese stock market. From the start of this year to the high point, the Nikkei rose almost 50% to 15,627 on May 22nd. Since then the index has lost almost 3,000 points. For a few days it even looked like net-nets were becoming scarce […]