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barrons2	Market Outperform - Price 48.35 on June 18 by Avondale Partners New 52 target. GPN [will] form a merchant-processing [joint venture] with HSBC in the U.K. GPN will pay $439 million in cash to acquire a 51% interest in the JV. The transaction is expected to be accretive to FY09 EPS. We believe [that] at current levels, shares of GPN offer investors an opportunity to buy one of the industry's leading merchant processors at a discount to long-term intrinsic business value. [GPN has been] increasing free cash flow and has a balance sheet with about $390 million in cash and no debt....We believe GPN shares more than reflect...negative sentiment...due to weakness in the U.S. to Mexico market...[Yet we think such] issues will be resolved by either a turnaround in the Mexican market or a sale. Market cap: $3.9 billion.	Love	June 21, 2008
LongTermInvest.blogspot.com	New Carl Icahn	Love	September 26, 2007
johnford	Stock Appreciation	Love	August 07, 2007
Barrons	By Barrington Research GPN, a high-volume processor of electronic transactions, had third-quarter 2007 EPS of 44 cents -- [beating] our expectations and consensus...of 41 cents. We believe that GPN's preliminary guidance for FY08 has reduced the level of growth expectations yet, coupled with the FDC/KKR deal, has opened a window of opportunity to purchase the shares at below private-market value. Raising to Outperform; initial price target, 46.	Love	April 07, 2007
Guest	The company lowered its revenue forecast from $1.06bb to $1.05bb and lowered its EPS forecast to $1.75 from $1.84. Wall Street is punishing it by sending shares down 13%. Last year EPS was 1.54 so the company is still experiencing double digit growth. $250mm net cash in the bank, the electronic payment processing company trades at just 10x trailing cash flows and probably even less on forward cash flows. This company gets upgraded this week when people realize how cheap it is. The Columbia Acorn Fund, one of the best value funds out there with a 17% average annual 5 year return, owns the stock. Here's the holdings of the <a href=" http://stockpickr.com/port/Columbia-Acorn-Fund-ACRNX/" target="_blank">Columbia Acorn Fund</a>.	Love	March 30, 2007
cw43	Super Growth	Love	February 14, 2007
mrty	The stock has established a nice floor at this level and may rally to the mid 40s	Love	January 19, 2007