A couple of months ago, I decided to feature an Irish medical research company called ICON plc (ICON) in the February 2007 edition of my free investment newsletter. The focus of that newsletter was closed-end funds and while I decided to add ICON to the InsideArbitrage model portfolio, I was only able to write very briefly about the company due to time constraints. There was very little mention about ICON in the mainstream financial media and the only reason I discovered this company was because I noticed its hiring activity while looking for a new IT project. A few days after writing about ICON, I noticed this article on SeekingAlpha by Mr. Hans Wagner, who runs a subscription based stock picking website called Trading Online Markets.
While I was surprised that someone else decided to write about this little known company shortly after I wrote about it, I was thrilled to see that Mr. Wagner’s article covered ICON in greater detail and I mentioned it to subscribers in the portfolio performance section of my March newsletter.