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Urbana corporation

Just has a followup note, Urbana corporation net asset value is now 1.81 per share. Marketable securities compose 80% of this value or 1.44 per share compared to current price of 1.10 per share a 30% discount! Disclosure : Author

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Urbana Corporation – buybacks followup.

Week Shares Bought back 2011-08-26 67 011 100 2011-09-02 66 851 300 159 800 2011-09-09 66 651 300 200 000 2011-09-16 66 650 300 1 000 2011-09-23 66 487 600 162 700 2011-09-30 66 378 600 109 000 2011-10-07 66

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Urbana shareholders vs Tom Caldwell CEO!

Quote from barelkarsan.com… While CEO Tom Caldwell did take the time to write a thoughtful response, shareholders should be mostly disappointed with its essence. Caldwell makes it clear that he doesn’t want to shrink the company’s capital base: “We do

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Urbana and TMX united in destiny!

Yesterday the board of directors of TMX Group approuved the purchase of TMX market by a group of canadian banks named “Maple”.  This official bid is at 50$ a share while current price is around 42.  Urbana Corporation is owner

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Urbana Corporation – buy back frenzy!

August 26th, Urbana corporation announced a buyback on their shares up to 6.6 million shares or almost 10% of the available non-voting class A shares.  Hopefully, URB reports net asset value per share weekly on their website.  You may find

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Urbana Corporation – massive discount!

Urbana Corporation was previously discussed on this site (here). This week URB announced a Share buyback plan to buyback up to 10% of all publicly traded shares and confirmed that they bought back 99% of the previously approved buyback program. 

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Urbana Corp (TSE:URB / URB.A)

I previously discussed about Urbana Corp. on this website.  It is a great net/net investment.  The current portfolio is comprised of alot of publicly traded shares like NYSE shares. Last week, OMX corporation made an hostile takeover bid over the

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URBANA CORPORATION (TSE:URB)

URBANA CORPORATION (TSE:URB) Urbana Corporation (Urbana) is a Canada-based investment company. The Company invests across the exchange sector, from cash markets to derivatives and from private, mutually owned exchanges, to those, which are publicly traded. It focuses on acquiring interests

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