This is going be quite a boring post. So if you are looking for a good read, and not pore through tonnes of data regarding ISOTeam, this post may not be for you.
Warren Buffett is known to study the rail car traffic (read here), instead of the boisterous clatter from Wall Street. It seems that rail car traffic is most closely linked to changes in quarterly GDP.
Peter Lynch is famous for his scuttlebutt approach (read here) to analyze the company and its business. The Scuttlebutt method is about the personal observations and insights that investors get by going out and gathering information about the company and its products / services.
I have even read in some blog posts that mentioned a friend of the blogger counting the number of used chop sticks at Umi Sushi to gauge how profitable the business is (that may be a bit ......