Here's one to keep an eye on.......
- Quantum - DLT & Storage (NYSE:DSS) last close: 10 5/16
52wk: $8 low / $21.75 high
quantum.com
DLT & storage is a tracking stock for Quantum's data storage business (symb DSS).
Separated from the hard disk drive business (symb HDD)as of July 1999.
DSS designs, develops, manufactures, licenses and markets DLT tape drives, DLT tape media cartridges and tape libraries that are used to back-up large amounts of data stored on network servers.The business is the world's leading maker of tape drives (65% of sales)used for storage and backup on network servers. Digital Linear Tape, or DLT tape, is the DLT & Storage Systems group's half-inch tape technology that is the de facto industry standard for data back-up in the mid- range network server market, which includes network servers priced between $10,000 and $500,000.
Will e-commerce create a huge need for this data warehousing as T. Rowe Price anaylst Stevphen Jansen believes?
2. Earnings?
biz.yahoo.com
Some Numbers: (sorry didn't get to indsty avrs)
PE......9.77
Book....3.79
Float......114m
Ownership... insiders 29%, institutional 69% (98% of float)
As of 10 Jan .....Short shares 3.08m (2.7% of float)
Debt/equity..... .36
Number of brokers
recommended as:
Strong Buy 3
Moderate Buy 7
Hold 4
Moderate Sell 0
Strong Sell 0
Had three positive block trades in Jan. One for $1,500,000, $300,000 and the other $200,000.
Stock Buyback:
1. Authorized to $700m(recent $100m increase)(for both
DSS and HDD).
2. Actually doing it..... (past 18mos 16m DSS shares
repurchased)
Recommended Money Magazine March 2000 (latest) Cover story
"Safe Stocks"
CeBIT 2000 (Geneva Switz) Feb 24th - Mar 1st
CeBIT home:
messe.de
DSS appearance/launches at show:
quantum.com
One questionable health Question?
1. DSS sells 60% of it's products to computer makers,
Compaq counts for 25% of sales, H.P. 13%.
This one looks like good value. With some good numbers, which might be just around the corner this could be a big mover.
I would appreciate all comments (good and bad), except for yours Chris (GGG). Sye |
