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Strategies & Market Trends : Roger's 1998 Short Picks -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: BDR who wrote (18259)	6/19/1999 12:49:00 AM
From: S. maltophilia	Respond to of 18691

<< Actually I didn't mean to turn this into the Quaker Oats discussion thread>> Why not?<G> I see a stock trading at ~30 P/E, with flat revenues, a debt/equity ratio of 10 and a price/book >100. How much more productivity are they going to squeeze out of a bottle of Gatorade? This is a stock bought by lazy fund managers when they are feeling "defensive." If we get a cool summer, or couch potatoes who decide they don't need an artificially flavored sugar buzz, this stock is meat. (IMO)