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Strategies & Market Trends : Cents and Sensibility - Kimberly and Friends' Consortium

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To: coissant who wrote (62813)1/14/2000 10:19:00 AM
From: johnsto1  Read Replies (1) of 108040
 
LJLB...WILL GO TO 30 EASY WITH VOLUME
To: Wes Stevens (25795 )
From: johnsto1
Sunday, Jan 9 2000 11:01PM ET
Reply # of 26105

LJLB [LJLBioSystems] I think I found a good one here.The companies products help
speed the process of biotech.Revenues up on sales and losses up because of hiring of
sales people.It's not a sexy biotech but with a 2.7 float,26% institutionally held,at $8 it
could become one.I'm buying Monday. 2 profiles:
Capitalization
% LT Debt to Total Cap 5%
Owned by Institutions 26.2%
Market Capitalization 100 Mil
Avg Dly Vol (30 days) 31,600
Growth Rates
Earnings $ % 5 Yr Hist
Latest Qtr. (Sep 99) -.16 up 24%
Latest 12 Months -.75 NA NA

First Call Consensus Estimate LT Future
Current Qtr. (Dec 99) -.16 up 16%
Yr. Ended Dec. 99 -.72 up 13% 85%
Yr. Ended Dec. 00 -.65 up 10%

Revenues
5 Yr Hist
Latest Qtr. (Sep 99) 2.6 Mil up 81%
Latest 12 Months 7.6 Mil NA NA

Dividends 5 Yr Hist
Indicated Rate & Yield NA 0%
Increases Last 5 Yrs NA NA

Key Ratios & Measures 5 Yr. Range Current
P/E NM NM
Price to Book 2 - 22.5 18.4
Price to Cash Flow NA NM
Price to Sales 3.1 - 17.2 13.15
Return on Equity NA NM

Beta .99

Business Overview
LJL BioSystems, Inc. designs and produces drug discovery products. The drug
discovery process involves several stages including assay development, (reading and
analyzing how drug compounds perform when tested against biological targets). LJL's
proprietary technology platform addresses the throughput limitations of High Throughput
Screening (HTS) systems. LJL's first HTS product, Analyst, is an assay detection
instrument that performs up to 70,000 screens per day and offers the ability to read
results in four different assay detection modes. LJL's Acquest product, offers
state-of-the-art ultra HTS formats that increase the number of screens performed.
Acquest can perform up to 200,000 tests per day. LJL markets its products through a
direct sales force in North America and Europe.
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