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- From: watanabe@cs.uiuc.edu (Larry Watanabe)
- Subject: Re: YOUR stock picks
- Message-ID: <C1FzMM.CBn@cs.uiuc.edu>
- Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
- References: <1993Jan22.163942.19832@spectrum.xerox.com> <1993Jan25.235616.26980@tellab5.tellabs.com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 03:42:22 GMT
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- lash@tellabs.com (Bill Lash) writes:
-
- >>Some I've been watching :
- >>
- >>Rio Hotel & Casino ( NASDAQ, RIO )
- >>The Gap ( NTSE, GAP )
-
- >Ok, I've been watching:
-
- >Pride Co. (NYSE,PRF)
- >Westinghouse (NYSE,WX)
- >and just for fun:
- >National Tech. Team (OTC,TEAM)
-
- These aren't stocks that I would recommend investing in,
- but they are rather peculiar and I was hoping someone
- could enlighten me ..
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- Russ Berrie (NYSE) ~$28
-
- This stock had a meteoric rise from about 16 to 35 in
- 1992. It must have crashed, because it has recently risen
- very quickly to about 28 now. I don't know where it's
- been inbetween.
-
- It also has a HUGE short interest, and that has also increased
- a large amount since December.
-
- The company apparently makes "Troll dolls" and other "impulse items".
-
- It seems a real contest between the bulls and the bears ..
- I don't know who is going to break first.
-
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-
- Nycor (NASDAQ) ~$2-$3
-
- This company apparently is a holding company. They seem to
- have sold off a company to Fedders, and unloaded their debt
- onto Fedders as well. The impression I get is that they
- have lent 20 million to Fedders, then had to sink another
- 40 million into Fedders to keep it afloat (or else they might
- lose their money).
-
- I think it's book is about $7, which is just about all cash
- (or debt from Fedders).
-
- But Fedders stock seems to be rising, but Nycor isn't.
- I would have thought that Nycor's stock should rise
- equally with Fedders, since that greatly increases the
- chance of getting the money back.
-
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-
- -Larry Watanabe watanabe@cs.uiuc.edu
-