kmukul

the put options (leaps) are so expensive, is there anything available at decent prices?

Well if i am not confused, fairfax is buying 20% more stake in ORH which should take their stake to ~93% doesnt that mean that ~7% of ORH still trades and everyone isnt forced to sell?

So whats the point in favor of FFH i get the ORH is selling at much more discount then book value then FFH

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=PFE Trailing P/E (ttm, intraday): 11.58 Forward P/E (fye 31-Dec-10) 1: 6.15 Price/Sales (ttm): 1.97 Price/Book (mrq): 1.66 at least the numbers say they might be really cheap Earnings History Jun-08 Sep-08 Dec-08 Mar-09 EPS Est 0.54 0.60 0.59 0.49 EPS Actual 0.55 0.62 0.65 0.54 Difference 0.01 0.02 0.06 0.05 Surprise % 1.9% 3.3% 10.2% 10.2% the results this quator were also good.

thanks :)

where do you find information on the preferreds for example what price and when can they be called? Can the dividend be cut for the preferreds or is it a liablity of the company to pay predefined preferred div unless they go bankrupt.

Is there anything fishy which might be happening? or is it that the market is kinda stupid

isnt ORH-B cheaper? the div is almost the same? sorry i am kind of new to these preferreds and cant see a reason why orh-a is better then orh-b