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Date updated:10-27-2009

Scott Rothbort's criteria:

1. Poor financial condition
2. "Second banana syndrome"
3. Ineffective management
4. Strategic mistakes

For more, and for a list of the companies that have been added to the worst-run list in past years, read the full article here.

Here are 2009's inductees:

AMD
Adv Micro Devices
$6.95
-1.42%
$6.90

It "seems as if the entire smartphone boom has left AMD behind in the dust, and the company still resides in a desktop business model mentality." Read more here.

People owning AMD also tend to own: AAPL CSCO DELL GOOG IBM INTC MSFT

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SIRI
Sirius Xm Radio I
$0.631
-0.03%
$0.6239

"Sirius XM -- the merger of two poorly managed and capitalized companies, Sirisu and XM -- is a classic case of a great product (satellite radio) coupled with a bad business model." Read more here.

People owning SIRI also tend to own: AMGN DAVE DKS MSFT PNRA SHFL UTX

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JMBA
Jamba
$1.65
-2.37%
$1.68

Jamba "has had a lousy track record since coming public in June 2005 at $8 per share." Read more here.

People owning JMBA also tend to own: CNE GCFB HYTM LVLT TSCM ZP ADM

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