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You guys are bring tears t my eyes
I love those guys on horses.
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AMAT
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Applied Material Grows Supportive
Monday November 20, 1:18 pm ET
By Anders Bylund
Clean-room equipment maker Applied Materials (Nasdaq: AMAT - News) is coming off a whiz-bang fiscal 2006 with an additional boost in Q4. Management chalked up the excellent performance to meeting its three core goals of introducing meaningful new products in its core markets, expanding into new markets, and running a tight ship financially.
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Support and maintenance services for manufacturing equipment already sold and deployed by customers is a growing contributor to the top and bottom lines, with sales in that sector growing from 12% of revenues in 2000 to twice that in the just-finished year. It's also a high-margin business with little or no R&D budget or manufacturing costs attached, so that growth vector is a welcome one, and an important factor in the company's overall profit growth.
That service revenue stream is akin to the strategy made famous by Procter & Gamble's (NYSE: PG - News) Gillette brand of giving away the handles but making a killing on razor blades. It's even closer to Intuitive Surgical's (Nasdaq: ISRG - News) way of selling a hugely expensive surgery robot and then cashing in on a steady stream of single-use supplies for it. Applied Materials serves customers like Texas Instruments (NYSE: TXN - News), Intel (Nasdaq: INTC - News), Toshiba, and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (NYSE: TSM - News), which all are stacked to the gills with brilliant engineers, but sometimes you just need the equipment manufacturer to come out and service your machinery.
The company's closest North American competitor, KLA-Tencor (Nasdaq: KLAC - News) sports about one-fifth of Applied Materials' $9.2 billion in annual sales, and even Tokyo Electron, the largest global rival, can only muster about 60% of that haul. And as Applied Materials moves into fields like solar panel manufacturing and flat-panel color filters, it stands to reason that revenues should continue to grow faster than the semiconductor manufacturing machinery sector in general.
As always, you should do your own due diligence, but this company looks mighty tasty right about now -- especially since the stock looks downright cheap next to the competition. Oh, that inscrutable Mr. Market...
KOPN
PYTO
This co. reported a net loss of .08 and the stock goes up. Don't you just love it.
Formula Systems (1985) Ltd. (FORTY : formula sys 1985 ltd sponsored adr
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Last: 12.56+0.85+7.22%
12.56, +0.85, +7.2%) reported a third-quarter net loss of $988,000, or 8 cents a share. During the same period a year ago, the Israeli information-technology company posted net earnings of $938,000, or 7 cents a share.
I like the looks of IOTN. MECA looks like buyers keep propping it back up. Like you said it stops at 4.48 and if it breaks that you are on a run. Me thinks.
http://www.magnaent.com/
Nice call from 10 days ago.
Just one of these every 10 days would be nice. :)
PYTO up really a lot
This is one that had good news and tanked but it is on the way back. See previous post.
Nice hope you were in.
Wow is right, absolutely no reason, unless somebody knows something.
What happened?
PUDC on watch
ZANE
ZANE looking good
I like this formation from the middle of the BB's
Ilike the looks of this one also.
I agree
Another provocative conclusion is that conservatives are better givers than
liberals - a theme that is likely to draw close scrutiny. This pattern is
less about politics, he says, than about charity-linked lifestyles that are
most common to people who call themselves conservatives: religious
commitment, marriage and children, and entrepreneurship.
I like this one
You showed MIVT chart which looks like it might be setting up in Magic Box. But EVCC is still going, nice. We'll see what Monday brings.
I think I remember you and I talking about URZ.
And I forgot about it.
It's doing it. Nice.
Yup,boom
Yup, magic was at $14. LOL
ELNK
PLB thatsa nica.
PLRS this may be a bottom buster.
Nope, mine go the other way.LOL
Have a great Thanksgiving
A Thanksgiving Prayer
Samuel F. Pugh
"O God, when I have food,
help me to remember the hungry;
When I have work,
help me to remember the jobless;
When I have a home,
help me to remember those who have no home at all;
When I am without pain,
help me to remember those who suffer,
And remembering,
help me to destroy my complacency;
bestir my compassion,
and be concerned enough to help;
By word and deed,
those who cry out for what we take for granted.
Amen."
apilgrim this one?
EVCC
Madness is right.
I agree, it really scares me when anal ysts are so sure.
but what do I know. When it hit a$100 I thought they where crazy. LOL
Welcome Derrick
nice to have you aboard, post all the ones you find that may look interesting. Thanks
Nice,
hope this gets you to felling better and take some off the table when you have a profit.
BANY
GACF chart looks like stochs fliping above 50.
NOVL
CTXS seasonality is coming