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What happened with DJCO today?

Why it moved
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Moving with the market?
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What to watch next
The next thing that could change the call, and what to look for

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Investment outlook

DJCO in three months: buy, wait or sell?

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  • Buy / Wait / Sell rating
  • 3-month target price
  • Bear · Base · Bull
  • vs. the market

Company

Company overview

Daily Journal’s subsidiary Journal Technologies helps courts, prosecutors and other justice agencies manage cases and offer services such as electronic filing and online fine payments. Agencies pay to license the software, install it and keep it supported; the subsidiary also collects fees for online services. This business supplies most of the company’s revenue, and almost all its customers are government agencies. Winning new projects generally requires competitive bidding, while agency budgets affect purchases and continued maintenance payments.

The company also publishes newspapers and websites covering California and Arizona, earning money from subscriptions and advertising. The Los Angeles Daily Journal and San Francisco Daily Journal focus on law and serve legal professionals; law firms and businesses seeking those readers buy commercial advertising. Its newspapers also carry public notices. That advertising depends on laws requiring newspaper publication and on each newspaper retaining legal authority to publish notices.

Daily Journal also owns a portfolio of publicly traded securities that earns dividends and interest and supports business funding. The holdings are concentrated in a small number of companies. Daily Journal intends to manage and draw on the portfolio primarily to support Journal Technologies’ development.

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Source: SEC filing

Red flags

Know what’s buried in DJCO’s filings before you buy

The risk section is the longest, dullest part of the filing. This keeps only what can really hurt you: where it hits, how hard, when it plays out.

Sorted into
  • Happening now
  • Could go wrong
  • Built in

Moat

DJCO says it has a moat. Does it hold up?

Every company claims an edge. Each one is checked against hard numbers like margins and returns: which hold, and which line gives way first.

Each edge rated
  • Strong
  • Moderate
  • Limited
  • Unproven

Related companies

Daily Journal’s operating results depend chiefly on government purchases of justice-system software, projects going live and electronic filing activity, while gains on marketable securities dominate its reported earnings.

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