Hey Gary, a large bottle of Advil every few months helps! <gggg>
Your comment on calling broker systems for quotes gave me a chuckle, because I once got in trouble doing just that - from work. When I was still at IBM and trading on the side I used to call the broker pretty often during the day to get quotes, and because of the way I dialed, my manager got a list of the calls. At the end of the month, he presents me with a couple page list of calls to the same number! They were pretty good about it, and we all got a laugh out of it. As for Dell, if they can change sentiment on the stock and get some traction in the tablet space, perhaps this thing could make a real run. Heaven knows, they are quite profitable now and the PE is pretty low. Back when I was ragging on Dell a decade ago it had a market cap north of a hundred billion dollars and was a much smaller company. Now the market cap is about 70% lower and they are minting money, but nobody cares... IBM has used the 'stock buyback' and growing profitability more than sales game with great success over the past few years, their stock is at all time highs...
Best regards,
John |
