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August 30, 2001 - Asensio reiterates its VeriSign Strong Sell and Short Sell Recommendation.
May 21, 2001 - No DOC ruling on ICANN's jurisdiction. Justice and GAO begin investigations.
May 16, 2001 - ICANN's Chairman had undisclosed conflict of interest.
May 8, 2001 - Another dubious attempt to predict public policy.
May 7, 2001 - Editorial - "Six More Years of Monopoly.com?"
May 7, 2001 - ICANN fails to obtain necessary approval for VeriSign deal.
May 3, 2001 - Peering into VeriSign's Foolish $12 Billion Bubble.
May 3, 2001 - VeriSign and its analysts have sown inevitable investor disappointment.
May 2, 2001 - VeriSign's divestiture deadline being unduly disregarded.
August 30, 2001
Asensio reiterates its VeriSign Strong Sell and Short Sell Recommendation.
We believe that VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN) (Price: $39.30) remains grossly overvalued and reiterate our Strong Sell and Short Sell recommendation. On May 3, 2001, Asensio & Company, Inc., an investment bank that conducts a specialty business in independent corporate valuations of excessively promoted companies, initiated research coverage on shares of VeriSign’s publicly traded common stock with a Strong Sell and Short Sell recommendation.
Analysts are expecting operating income growth to accelerate, even though in the last year during much better market conditions and with less competition, and from a lower base, revenue and operating income has sharply declined. VeriSign's almost $8 billion market capitalization has fully discounted a very high likelihood that VeriSign will meet or exceed these growth expectations. This growth expectation is not fact-based and does not reconcile with price performance or conditions in its product market.
VeriSign's revenues and income, pricing and market-share data all show well-established structural downtrends. Analysts continue to recommend the purchase of VeriSign shares despite the fact that its current stock price fully reflects the highly uncertain event that it will meet or exceed their unreasonable projections. We feel these recommendations and projections are based not on independent analysis of complete and transparent data, but instead are based on incomplete, inaccurate, highly managed morsels of highly questionable information provided by VeriSign.
A complete documented history of Asensio's published work with securities transactions, and the firm's definition of gross overvaluation, is available on the Internet at asensio.com. Asensio & Company is actively engaged in short selling and advises its clients on securities it believes are overvalued. Short selling involves a risk not associated with the purchase of stock including, but not only limited to, unlimited loss and stock borrowing risks. Additional information is available upon request.
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