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October 21, 2007


Proprietary Digital Learning Devices

Noah Education (NED) just came public… I don’t know anything about them but I thought I’d mention it since it’s apparently another way besides New Oriental to play the China / education theme.

NED

10 Responses to “Proprietary Digital Learning Devices”

  1. beanie11111 said:

    Judgement Day!!!

  2. C. Maoxian said:

    beanie: I’m going to have to ban you from commenting if you continue to post random/off-topic stuff. Just wanted to give you fair warning.

  3. beanie said:

    You don’t think it was Judgement Day for NED, who just got whacked?

  4. C. Maoxian said:

    beanie: It opened 60%+ above its offering price so that ain’t bad. Sure the folks who paid that opening price got whacked but these are early days.

  5. ricky said:

    did anyone checked the financials of this company ?

  6. ricky said:

    hm, when i put 诺亚舟 into taobao i only get 20 pages results.

  7. C. Maoxian said:

    ricky: I doubt if any retail “investors” looked at the financials before buying (do they ever?). I like your Taobao research method though. ;-)

  8. 68monkey said:

    what’s taobao? a search engine? I’ve looked at the prospectus and these guys make money mostly from selling these DLD to students pre-college age…

    does anyone know anything about these DLD? are they really useful (i.e. worth the money for parents/students)? do buyers know the difference btw one or the other or is buying based on price?

  9. CapitalGain said:

    Trading at 44x trailing on only $75M in revenue - Yikes.

  10. C. Maoxian said:

    68monkey: Taobao is a shopping site I think (like Amazon) but I’ve never used it so I don’t really know. I know nothing about DLD and am strictly a paper and pencil man myself.

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