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Technology Stocks : Creative Labs (CREAF)
CREAF 0.411+11.2%Dec 8 12:12 PM EST

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To: BZOOKA who wrote (11441)5/27/1998 11:27:00 PM
From: mozek  Read Replies (1) of 13925
 
Maybe someone can help. Creative has a miniscule PE ratio, lots of cash, and they can't buy back their stock. Why would they buy Silicon Engineering with stock???? Usually a company pays with stock over cash when it thinks the stock is fairly or overvalued. If the company has a higher PE ratio, which wouldn't be hard, a stock purchase raises CREAF's PE ratio. A cash purchase does the opposite and effectively acts as a surrogate for a stock buyback of their own. This doesn't make sense to me. Does anyone have any insight?

I don't have a position in CREAF. Had one last year, but I sold and haven't reentered yet.

Thanks,
Mike
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