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What's Hot On TheStreet



Jailhouse Stocks Slip as Trends Shift

Corrections Corp. of America (NYSE: CXW) and Geo Group (NYSE: GEO), the largest U.S. prison operators with a combined 86% market share, have long been touted as ironclad investments based on two trends: the rising prison population and government outsourcing of penal services.



'Magic Formula' Stocks Reward Investors

Providing returns to shareholders can be accomplished in many ways.

The best way is through a company reinvesting cash flows to increase the revenue and profits of the business, lifting the intrinsic value of common stock.



10 Real-Life Gordon Gekkos

It takes a special kind of narcissist to want to be Gordon Gekko, but a stable of criminal misanthropes to inspire the Wall Street character's existence.

Friday's release of that film's 23-years-overdue sequel, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, reacquaints America with Gekko, one of its most famous modern caricatures -- the archetypal cutthroat corporate raider and embodiment of 1980s excess.



Blockbuster Timeline

Timeline of Blockbuster's (BLOKA) fairytale that did not have a happy ending.