Mesa Air Group, Inc.

MESA is a buy @ $0.195

About: Mesa Air Group, Inc. (Mesa) is a holding company whose principal subsidiaries operate as regional air carriers providing scheduled passenger and airfreight service. As of September 30, 2007, the Company served 184 cities in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Canada, the Bahamas and Mexico and operated a fleet of 182 aircraft with approximately 1,100 daily departures.

News:

Traffic up 17% in March

Traffic on interisland carrier go! airlines was up nearly 17.3 percent in March.

The airline carried 64,093 passengers in March, up from 54,604 in March 2008.

The airline, a subsidiary of Phoenix-based Mesa Air Group (Nasdaq: MESA), generated 14 million available seat miles and 9.3 million revenue passenger miles for the month.

10-Q: MESA AIR GROUP INC

The numbers:

It’s hard to believe that

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Thanks to the Media competing for website traffic and TV ratings, expect the madness on Wall Street to continue. Which makes this Master ponder, maybe the Legion of Doom is at work here? Sounds ridiculous doesn't it? But maybe CNBC is the Legion of Doom? Take CNBC which posted an article on Friday (Stock SellOff Offers Good Chance To Seek Bargains) to Sunday's Doom and Gloom article about Stagflation and how stocks suffered in the 70's. But with the constant feed of headlines and whoring of news sites to get the most page clicks, is all of the information we are reading truly relevant? Some of it yes, some ...

In the slideshow, “States with the Biggest Declines and Increases in Home Prices,” where does Wyoming stand?

I couldn’t find the slideshow, but found this reference which appears to be correct elsewhere:

“OFHEO: Wyoming had a 6.3% gain in home-price appreciation from Q1’07 to Q1’08…

If CNBC wants to direct the traffic to their site they’ll have to make these things a bit easier to find.

We selected the single country funds available in the Index Universe database for calendar year return analysis. Cumulative and annualized returns are important, but so too are discreet calendar years.

While statistical tools may theoretically, adequately describe variation or consistency of returns, a visual impression can be helpful too. This analysis is primarily visual.

Within the list we used a traffic metaphor with colored backgrounds of red, yellow and green for each year for each fund as follows:

red for returns < -5% yellow for returns between 5% and -5% (or no data) green for returns > 5%

Funds with no data, were not in operation for those full years.

If you are interested in those country index funds with missing data, you may benefit by researching the index on which the fund is based to estimate how the fund might have done had it been in operation during the missing years. Don’t

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We selected 70+ stock, bond and other indices for calendar year return analysis. Cumulative and annualized returns are important, but so too are discreet calendar years.

While statistical tools may theoretically, adequately describe variation or consistency of returns, a visual impression can be quite helpful too. This analysis is primarily visual.

Within the list we used a traffic metaphor with colored backgrounds of red, yellow and green for each year for each index as follows:

red for returns < -5% yellow for returns between 5% and -5% green for returns > 5%

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Richard Shaw QVM Group LLC