Echoing a theme on many other popular blogs, I’ve decided to look back on the year to some of my most popular posts by page views in 2010. I started the blog in May 2010, so it covers just over half of the year.

1. Food Technology Inc. (VIFL) – Stock Analysis & Valuation

It turns out that the most popular post was on a stock that I never ended up investing in! With helpful links from Jae over at OSV, traffic for the first two posts was almost 40% higher than any other.

VIFL never quite reached my buy price, and I ended up missing out – the stock is up 82% since my original analysis.

2. FIS Tender Offer – Special Situations Investing

My second special situations investment ended up with a nice annualized return. I continue to search for attractive tender offers (see my post on VR as well), but haven’t found any recently with enough spread.

3. Newly Expanded Value Investing Resources

The Resources section of ValueUncovered is one of the most popular pages.

I have an updated planned, as there are several new resources that I’ve been using recently.

4. How-To Guide for Downloading Earnings Calls

Another how-to / general information type post. Considering how much time I spent searching for a good solution to this problem, I’m glad that it was valuable to visitors.

5. Alpha Pro Tech (APT) – Market Overreaction Leads to Undervaluation

The first post ValueUncovered portfolio pick, the stock is up since my original writeup but is basically break-even compared to the S&P. I think the stock still has room to run as the company goes through a transition after a banner year in 2009.

6. ADVC – Tiny Software Stock Turns In Record Numbers During Recession

I posted several updates on ADVC.OB as the company continued with its record-breaking performance. The stock paid out two quarterly dividends of $0.01 per share during 2010, for a yield of over 11%.

7. NexCen Brands (NEXC) – Liquidation with Catalyst for Higher Returns

My first liquidation play, everything has been quiet with the stock over the past several months – I’m assuming that management is still on track to wrap up all outstanding obligations in order to make a final distribution to shareholders.

8. EMMS – Going Private Transaction

Unfortunately, EMMS was my biggest losing position of the year, as the intended going private transaction fell apart due to disagreements with the lender.

I learned a great deal from the experience, and am glad I sold when I did – the stock is now languishing around $0.75, well below the deal price.

9. Jewett-Cameron (JCTCF): Undervalued and Under the Radar

Another stock that failed to meet my margin of safety requirements, I missed out on a significant gain as the stock appreciated. Management’s share buyback plan seems to have had the intended effect.

10. Value Uncovered Model Portfolio – August Update

While popular from a page view standpoint, I decided to discontinue monthly updates due to short-term volatility. As a value investor, many positions can take months or even years to pay-off and I don’t want the focus to be on short-term performance.

I will be reviewing my portfolio on a quarterly basis, and will be posting the fourth quarter and full year review in the next few days.

Disclosure

Long APT, ADVC, NEXC

Electronic Systems Technology, Inc. (ELST.OB) announced a new distributor agreement last week with Flanders Electric, a company that provides AC/DC Motor Drives and Engineering Services to the mining and metal industry.

For a boring company like ELST, this type of news doesn’t come around often!

According to Flanders,

“The severe RF challenges presented by the nature of mining cause our clients to demand performance above what is commonly available to them through other vendors,” commented Ken Pavloski of Flanders, “our company’s product line is enhanced by leveraging the ease, speed, and reliability of ESTeem network products.”

Read the rest of the press release here.

Flanders is a private company so I couldn’t find accurate revenue information, but based off the website, they have been around for over 60 years and have 600+ employees.

These type of channel relationships can be a huge win for a company the size of ELST.

I originally entered the ELST investment because it was trading at a discount to its liquidation value. As I mentioned in my ELST Q3 earnings update, the business has picked up in 2010 but the stock was missing a catalyst.

The stock jumped a bit on the news before falling back down (I was able to unload some of my position).

It will be interesting to see if this new agreement will spark sales in the subsequent quarters.

Disclosure

Long ELST

Techprecision Corp (TPCS.OB) recently presented at the LD Microcap Conference on December 9 and uploaded the newest investor presentation to their website.

I have written about TPCS several times before and believe this new presentation does a great job of showing the company’s incredible market potential.

Check out the new investor presentation here:

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*Hat tip to IanCassel.com for attending the conference and pointing out the new presentation. Read his take on TPCS here.

Disclosure

Long TPCS.OB