Another reminder from another time.
It references Haromons picks for 2000.
Two issues went bye bye, another trades on the berlin exch for pennies, a few are relagated to the OTCBB (again pennies). If his picks for 2000 were tracked as a portofolio, it would have to be one of the worst......in modern (say from the 1920's)history for a 2 or 3 year period.
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TheStreet.com
March 23, 2000 Thursday
SECTION: MARKETS; Nothing but Net
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HEADLINE: Old Tech Fuels Nasdaq Rally but Net Stocks Limp Along
BYLINE: By David Shabelman, Staff Reporter
DATELINE: March 23, 2000 3:22 PM ET
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Old technology was behind the latest rally in the Nasdaq, while Internet stocks have been a reluctant participant.
The Nasdaq was up 86.10, or 1.8%, to 4950.85 in recent trading. TheStreet.com Internet Sector index was flat at 1270.64, though it had traded as high as 1278.14. TheStreet.com New Tech 30 was down 4, or 0.5%, to 809.96.
Net/Tech Indices
INDEX CHANGE % VALUE
TSC Internet 8.69 +0.7% 1279.35
TSC New Tech 30 6.24 -0.8% 807.69
TSC E-Commerce 0.97 -1.0% 93.47
TSC E-Finance 3 11/32 +4.1% 84 7/16
Nasdaq 92.37 +1.9% 4957.80
RealNetworks (RNWK:Nasdaq) was up 3 3/16, or 4.7%, to 71. Company CEO Rob Glaser made an appearance on CNBC today . The company made an announcement with Ritmoteca.com, an online retailer dedicated exclusively to downloadable Latin music and entertainment, to become the first channel integrated into the Spanish and Portuguese versions of RealPlayer.
Lycos (LCOS:Nasdaq) was up 3 1/2, or 5.1%, to 71 7/8. The company announced that Lycos Europe, its European joint venture with Bertelsmann, successfully completed its initial public offering yesterday, raising $649 million. As of the close of market on March 22, Lycos Europe was valued at more than $5 billion after its listing on the Neuer Markt in Germany. Note that we had a story on Lycos Europe's IPO earlier this week.
Excite@Home (ATHM:Nasdaq) was up 2, or 6.5%, to 32 3/4. The stock has broken out in the past couple of days and one persistent reader has demanded to know why. The reader speculated that Excite@Home's standing in the recent Media Metrix survey may have contributed to the strength in the stock. Excite@Home's reach did climb to 40.5% in February from 35.0% in January, though much of the strength could be attributed to a 4% month-over-month increase in the reach for BlueMountainArts online greeting card site that Excite@Home recently purchased. And that increase was attributed to broader reach of the Excite@Home around Valentine's Day, leaving our perplexed reader to conclude, " I thought I had bought a cable broadband play, but evidently I own Hallmark." Excite@Home also introduced free online service during the survey time period.
We also ran across a positive note on the company from William Blair & Company dated March 21, indicating that now was "an opportune time to buy shares of Excite@Home, while popular sentiment is as bad as it ever has been. Analyst Abhishek Gami wrote that the sum of Excite@Home's parts "leads to a valuation in excess of the current market capitalization." Indeed, the stock has been hammered over access concerns and America Online's (AOL:NYSE) recent purchase of Time Warner (TWX:NYSE). However, with Excite@Home's stock rebounding, traders who have shorted the stock are likely getting squeezed.
Finally, on what has been a relatively ho-hum day in Internet land, we'll revisit an old story. Influential Internet analyst Steve Harmon got lots of publicity back in January when he put out his list of top Internet stock picks for 2000. We're revisiting the list, because one stock, Santa Cruz Operation (SCOC:Nasdaq), has been hammered since its earnings shortfall announcement Tuesday. This is not meant as a cheap shot on Harmon, in fact, we had no idea about the performance of the stocks before preparing this report.
The aforementioned Santa Cruz Operation was up 1 7/16, or 13.8%, to 11 7/8 today, though it had traded as high as 35 1/16 on Jan. 3, the day that Harmon's list was publicized.
CMGI (CMGI:Nasdaq), which ended 1999 around 163 (post-split), was trading down 4, or 3.2%, to 122 3/4 today. Net Perceptions (NETP:Nasdaq), which began the year at 42, was up 8 1/4, or 22.5%, to 44 7/8. Pacific Internet (PCNTF:Nasdaq) was up 3, or 6.9%, to 46 3/4 today after beginning the year around 47. Spyglass (SPYG:Nasdaq), which began the year around 38, was up 1 9/16, or 2.3%, to 70 1/4. CNet (CNET:Nasdaq) was down 1 5/16, or 2.4%, to 53 1/16 after starting the year at 56 3/4. U.S. Interactive (USIT:Nasdaq) went from 43 on Dec. 31 to a high of 92 on Jan. 3. Today, it was up 7 15/16, or 24%, to 41. Terra Networks (TRRA:Nasdaq) began the year at 54 3/4, traded as high as 145 1/4 on Feb. 14, but was up 1/8 to 83 3/16 today,. Redback Networks (RBAK:Nasdaq), which began the year at 177 1/2, traded as high as 397 on March 14 and was down 11 1/8, or 3.3%, to 321 3/4 today. And America Online, which had unforeseen problems after it announced it would purchase Time Warner, was down 13/16, or 1.1%, to 71 3/16 after beginning the year around 76.
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