This Week’s Savvy Profiler – Coinstar, Inc.

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Company Name:               Coinstar, Inc.

Ticker:                              CSTR

Last Trade:                       $64.57

5wk Range:                      76.98 – 114.81

Business Summary:

Coinstar, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides automated retail solutions primarily in the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, Ireland, and the United Kingdom. The company owns and operates self-service Redbox kiosks that enable consumers to rent or purchase movies and video games; and self-service coin-counting kiosks where consumers can convert their coin to cash, a gift card, or an E-certificate. It also engages in identifying, evaluating, building, and developing new self-service concepts in the automated retail space, which includes coffee, refurbished electronics, and photo self-service concepts. As of December 31, 2011, the company had 35,400 Redbox kiosks in 29,300 locations and 20,200 coin-counting kiosks in 19,900 locations primarily in supermarkets, drug stores, mass merchants, financial institutions, convenience stores, and restaurants. Coinstar, Inc. was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington.

Recent Headlines on Coinstar, Inc.:

• Coinstar, Other Leaders Shape Basesat Investor’s Business Daily(Thu 5:29PM EDT)
• 3 Examples of What’s Wrong With Wall Streetat Motley Fool(Tue, Jun 19)
• Is This Netflix Promotion Pure Genius or Incredibly Stupid?at Motley Fool(Tue, Jun 19)
• Here’s How the Guy Who Called Enron Has Been Investingat Motley Fool(Tue, Jun 19)
• Apple TV: To Infinity And Beyondat Seeking Alpha(Tue, Jun 19)
• Can Netflix Make It In Internet Tech Big Leagues?at Seeking Alpha(Tue, Jun 19)
• Is Another Netflix Service Split Coming?at Motley Fool(Tue, Jun 19)
• 5 IBD 50 Stocks With Bolting Relative Strength Linesat Investor’s Business Daily(Tue, Jun 19)
• Netflix: Open Connect Will Likely Failat Seeking Alpha(Mon, Jun 18)
• Buyers Beware: 5 Stocks That Short Sellers Loveat Motley Fool(Mon, Jun 18)

 Recent Press on Coinstar, Inc.:

• Coinstar, Inc. and Seattle’s Best Coffee Sign Exclusive Agreement to Roll Out Thousands of the New Rubi Kiosks in Grocery, Drug and Mass ChannelsPR Newswire(Tue, Jun 5)
• Conditions of Growth, Economic Analysis – Research Report on Nuance Communications Inc. and Coinstar, Inc.Marketwire(Tue, May 29)
• Coinstar, Inc. to Present at the Morgan Stanley Retail ConferencePR Newswire(Fri, May 18)

Company Overview: 

Target Price:                        $110.60

Risk:                                   MEDIUM

Short Term Rating:                BUY

Long Term Rating:                 HOLD

*analyst ratings are from wikiwealth.com

(http://www.wikiwealth.com/research:cstr)

To making money,

Lourdes Janzen

LJ Investment Research