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Siliconix (SILI) is an 80% owned subsidiary of Vishay (VSH). SILI is also the most profitable portion of VSH. I first discovered this company in the summer of 1999. At the time, it had great earnings, great top and bottom line growth, a very low PE, a great chart, a very small float. The technology slowdown affected SILI as much as anyone else. Although it is now very thinly traded and the spread can often get large, it can be bought between the spread. Stock: 100M auth., 29.879M issd. Insiders less than 1%; VSH owns ~80%. IPO 6/79, 300,000 shares @ $17 5/8 by DLJ. 2-for-1 stock split, 2/86, 3-for-1 stock split 2/00. No debt. I originally found this by accident: my daughter picked it (almost at random -- she had heard me talk about "Silicon something" and thought this was it -- she was thinking about SI) for a high school Eco project...she beat up on the rest of the class. After some DD, decided to buy it myself. In the past three years, a lot has changed in the market and for SILI. First, SILI split 3:1 in February 2000. Second, after running up as high as $165 intraday post split ($495 pre-split), a 10 bagger from where I first found it, SILI, like a lot of other tech companies has dropped as much as 90 percent from its all time high. It now sits at around $30 a share (still twice what it was when I found it in 1999, but 80 percent off its high) and earnings projections are currently MUCH lower than what they were in 1999, 2000, or 2001. There was hope that late 2002 and 2003 would bring a return to rising rather than falling profits. Earlier than many expected, Q1 2002 showed meaningful sequential improvement over Q4 2001. It could be the beginning of a meaningful upturn for SILI and perhaps the semi group as a whole. The book to bill was over 1.2 for the first time in several quarters. Finally, around a year ago, after much speculation, VSH offered to buy the 20% of SILI it did not already own. First, it offered roughly $28 a share, then 1.5 VSH shares. The tender was not accepted by half of the non-VSH shareholders, so it expired and was not consummated. It is likely that some of SILI's current share price is governed by the prior VSH offer. Given the thin trading, small volume increases can have major share price implications. Troy
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