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Go, PPD, Go!Pre-Paid Legal Serivices, Inc., one of my longest holdings, reported terrific results today, and its stock jumped over 11% within the first hour of market opening. It seems that management is executing a cash-cow strategy to keep membership growth in control and extract more cashflow to return to shareholders. Good job! (Full disclosure: I currently own 580 shares of PPD, including 280 shares bought in 2002 and 300 shares bought in August 2006.) From PPD:
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