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Technology Stocks : NetSolve, Incorporated (NTSL) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Feraldo who wrote (78)	10/25/1999 10:05:00 AM
From: Lane Hall-Witt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 92

BBRS starts NTSL with a Buy. According to CBS MarketWatch: "Sees $33.2M FY00 revenues, $40.9M FY01 revenues." Looks like a classic case of lowballing estimates in order to ensure upside surprises later down the road. In the first quarter of FY2000, NTSL reported $9.067M revenues -- which projects to $36.268M for FY2000 even if you assume zero growth. Given that NTSL has expanded its customer base by at least 15 percent this quarter (600 customers --> more than 700 customers), this negative-growth assumption by BBRS seems unlikely, to say the least. The game is on--. cbs.marketwatch.com