Good buying opportunity, NTE
To celebrate its fifteen consecutive profitable years, and especially the remarkable performance of the Company in this year and its fifteenth anniversary of listing, since its IPO in 1988, and its move to the NYSE earlier this year, the Board of Directors has declared a special cash dividend of $0.80 per share, plus the issue of a stock dividend to shareholders at the ratio of one dividend share for every 10 shares held by the shareholders. The record date for such special dividend and stock dividend is November 7, 2003.