Business Services Industry

Analysts Offer Opinions on Fate of Aquila Inc. Stock.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, October, 2002

By Mark Davis, The Kansas City Star, Mo. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Oct. 20--As shares of Aquila Inc. started to crumble this spring, they found a notable fan in Marty Whitman.

Whitman, manager of the $2.3 billion Third Avenue Value Fund, began buying and amassed 1.75 million shares of Aquila by the end of June. Moreover, he told Mutual Funds magazine what a wonderful stock he'd found.

Aquila topped his list of best picks in the magazine's October issue.

Former and current Aquila employees -- who have lost more than $100 million in the stock this year -- have the same prospects for recovery as Third Avenue investors.

A big difference, however, is that Whitman put only one-half of 1 percent of the Third...

Premium Content Partnership | HighBeam Research provides an in-depth online archive library of reference works. HighBeam Research
 

BNET TalkbackShare your ideas and expertise on this topic

Please add your comment:

  1. You are currently: a Guest |
  2.  

Basic HTML tags that work in comments are: bold (<b></b>), italic (<i></i>), underline (<u></u>), and hyperlink (<a href></a)

advertisement
advertisement
  • Click Here
  • Click Here
  • Click Here
advertisement