This article is excerpted from a letter by MOI Global instructor Jim Roumell, partner and portfolio manager of Roumell Asset Management (RAM), based in Chevy Chase, Maryland. Jim is a valued participant in The Zurich Project.
RUBI reported a very strong quarter indicating that the company has successfully leveraged its legacy ad-tech strengths to position itself to be one of the leaders in the programmatic buying and selling of online advertisements. RUBI has steadily gained market share over the past several months. In March 2017, Michael Barrett implemented a number of key initiatives when he became the company’s second CEO, building upon decisions made in 2016, that are working. The evidence is increasingly clear that those initiatives have turned around the company’s fortunes since its dramatic fall from grace two years ago when the protocols for online ad-buying changed and RUBI was caught flat-footed.
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About The Author: Jim Roumell
Jim Roumell entered the securities industry in 1986. Before founding the firm in 1998, he was a Registered Principal at Raymond James Financial Services, Inc. Mr. Roumell is a frequent contributor to Manual of Ideas Global and has been featured in such publications as Barron’s, Kiplinger’s, Value Investor Insight, Financial Planning Magazine, and The Washington Post. He is listed and quoted in “The Art of Value Investing: How the World’s Best Investors Beat the Market.” Mr. Roumell was selected to participate in, and won, two consecutive Wall Street Journal stock picking contests in 2001 and 2002. He is a Board Member and Chairman of the Investment Committee of Wayne State University Foundation. He is also a Board Member and serves on the Investment Committee of Amalgamated Casualty Insurance Company. Mr. Roumell is a graduate of Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan.
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