Post #10940 by mungofitch on the Berkshire Hathaway board

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I thought the correct quote was 'Never give up; never surrender!' from the movie Galaxy Quest.
Is there a saying about not trying to catch a falling knife when the knife is all blade and no handle?
Surely Dollar General will be great one day. A day may come, but it is not this day.

I almost put in "We will fight them in the parking lot, we will fight them in the toy aisle". Too many good quote sources.
Your last bit is presumably Aragorn, but to keep with the desperation rather than encouragement, it also sounds like something from Silo...

For whatever it's worth (not much), Value Line's price target 3-5 years out is $135-200. They're guessing net margins will recover moderately to 4.4%. For scale, average and lowest years 2014-2021 were 6.2% and 5.2%, but the recent low year was around 3.2%.

Jim

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