Buy 1 And Sell 1 Out Of These 2 Competing Companies

By Bill Wolf:Coinstar (CSTR) runs two primary businesses: The coin machines you see in grocery stores that give you cash for your change, and Redbox, the DVD rental kiosk business. The Redbox DVD kiosk business provided roughly 84% of the company's revenues in the last 12 months, ended 9/30/11.

By Dan Owens:I recently examined Coinstar's (CSTR) quarterly and annual reports and found a few reasons why I believe Coinstar provides an interesting opportunity for investors. Coinstar has three lines of business (as described in their 2012 10-K Filing):

Sreeni Meka submits:Coinstar (CSTR) is a leading provider of automated retail solutions offering self-service coin counting machines and DVD rentals through its Redbox kiosks at number of retail locations. At present, Coinstar has 30,000 self service Redbox kiosks at 26000 locations.

Seth Gilbert submits:Redbox parent, Coinstar (CSTR), built its core business offering frugal customers a convenient way to liquidate their spare change. Similar focus on frugality and convenience has helped turn the company into a movie rental powerhouse.

By Chris Katje: Back in June, I discussed several new kiosk concepts by Redbox parent company Coinstar (CSTR) that would help the company diversify away from its movie rental business. Two launches this past week have the company on track for an exciting future and could have shareholders rewarded nicely.

By Bret Jensen:Coinstar (CSTR) is a stock that generates a lot of conversation between bulls and bears. The bear's case resolves around the company's dependency around DVD rentals which the bears see as a dying business model/obsolete technology.

By Bill Wolf:I recently wrote an article outlining the likely earnings for Coinstar (CSTR) in 2012 based on the unit economics of its Redbox DVD rental division.

By Stock Croc:Verizon (VZ) and Redbox [owned by Coinstar (CSTR)] are teaming up to provide Internet video streaming services.