News Source: The Money Times
"For more than a year, we've been chronicling companies that appear to be on their deathbeds. As we note, not every company will give up the ghost. But since our original column, quite a few have either disappeared entirely, or seen huge drops in their share prices: Fannie Mae, Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns, and Washington Mutual, to name just a few.We check for stocks that have eked out the lowest possible one-star rating from the savvy investors in our Motley Fool CAPS community. Then pair we that information with various financial ratios, which can flash like a neon sign that the end is near.
With a third of those original companies departed or disappeared, let's take a second look at some of the stocks we diagnosed with terminal ills:
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