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- From: hal@pollux (Hal N. Brooks)
- Subject: Re: Borland International?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.064706.6349@athena.cs.uga.edu>
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- Organization: University of Georgia
- References: <4250046@hpcc01.corp.hp.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 06:47:06 GMT
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- In article <4250046@hpcc01.corp.hp.com> chin@hpcc01.corp.hp.com (Frederick Chin) writes:
- >
- >Borland International's stock is pretty low now. Anyone have
- >any idea why? Also, is it a good buy or not...
- >
- >Just asking for opinions.
- >
- >Fred Chin
- >chin@hpcc01.corp.hp.com
- >
-
- A Dean Witter analyst downgraded it on Monday, saying
- it would be going lower (guess he was right). He gave
- an estimated EPS for the quarter ending 12/31 as 0.26,
- while the consensus is 0.35.
-
- A Lehman analyst was reported to have downgraded borl on
- Tuesday morning.
-
- Concerns about lack of Windoze applications was cited as
- a problem earlier in the year.
-
- I'm not sure about the P/E. If you extrapolate from the 0.26
- estimate it's around 24, from 0.35 it's around 18. I don't
- have the data on previous 3 quarters, or estimates for next year.
- Tough call. This could be a buying opportunity, but I suppose
- that's what it looked like on May 8 when it dropped 4.625 points
- to close at 48.625. If you had jumped in then you would have
- a 50% return on your investment. :-) And then you could have
- picked up a few more shares on June 24, when it dropped
- 4.75 to 40.5. And a few more on Oct 7, when it dropped
- 6.625 to 30.75. This is beginning to look like a trend
- I wouldn't want to buck.
-
- <<<<<< personal customer comments follow >>>>>>>
-
- On the other hand, I've always liked their products, though
- I miss the days when Turbo Pascal (the whole compiler
- environment!) used around 39K of memory and easily fit
- on a DS/DD diskette along with DOS. I believe
- Borland C++ with all the works weighs in at about 48M
- of disk space! And people complain about OS/2!
-
- Personally, I just wish they would send me my copy of Brief!
- At least they were nice enough to call and say it would be
- a while, but it's been about a month and a half since I sent
- in the order. Borland Brief? I guess that's another point,
- they seem to have gone on a software buying spree themselves.
- I always considered them to be good developers, but lately it
- seems they've been acquiring more than they've been developing.
- That Symantec/Digital Communications Assoc. business strategy
- never really appealed to me as an investor.
-
- And I wish they'd ship Borland C++ for OS/2 (if they're still
- planning on it).
-
- And I wish they would be a bit more restrained in the frequency
- of software upgrades! Every time I turn around they're sending
- me a coupon to upgrade something or another.
-
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