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Technology Stocks : Asyst Technologies (ASYT) Good Value/Where is the Bottom? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: semi2000 who wrote (1682)	8/19/2000 12:05:56 PM
From: Donald Wennerstrom	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2313

Hindsight is a wonderful thing, particularly when reviewing stock market activity. The semi-equips corrected "viciously" during the 3 weeks ending a week ago yesterday. The table below shows this period. All stocks lost ground. While the NASDAQ went down 11 percent, the group went down 32 percent. Note AMAT, KLAC, NVLS and TER are all in the "middle". NVLS and TER lost the most at 31 percent. This past week they gained the most at 35 and 24 percent respectively. ASYT lost 52 percent and rebounded with a 35 percent gain this past week. Making a broad, general statement,(that in certain cases is violated) AMAT, KLAC, NVLS and TER tend to be in the "middle" of the table, both on the downside and on the upside - their "beta" is not as high as the smaller stocks. 7/14/00 8/11/00 CLOSE CLOSE PERCENT SYMBOL COMPANY PRICE PRICE CHANGE IMSC Integrated Measurement Systems 19.00 18.00 -5 NANO Nanometrics 45.00 39.88 -11 UTEK Ultratech Stepper 17.88 15.56 -13 SFAM SpeedFAM 20.00 16.94 -15 SVGI Silicon Valley Group 30.75 25.94 -16 WFR MEMC Electronic Materials 18.62 15.50 -17 EGLS Electroglas 22.50 18.38 -18 CYMI Cymer 49.50 40.13 -19 AMAT Applied Materials * 88.69 69.19 -22 DPMI Dupont Photomasks 78.25 60.56 -23 ASML ASM Lithography Holdings 45.88 34.63 -25 TGAL Tegal 6.25 4.56 -27 CMOS Credence Systems 56.31 40.81 -28 KLAC KLA Instruments * 62.00 44.69 -28 HELX Helix Technology 40.06 28.63 -29 VECO Veeco Instruments 97.88 67.81 -31 TER Teradyne * 77.75 53.81 -31 NVLS Novellus Systems * 64.25 44.38 -31 PLAB Photronics 31.38 21.31 -32 COHU Cohu 25.50 16.38 -36 FSII FSI International 21.75 13.19 -39 MTSN Mattson Technology 27.88 16.31 -41 CFMT CFM Technologies 13.69 8.00 -42 LRCX Lam Research 37.94 21.94 -42 SMTL Semitool 18.30 10.56 -42 BRKS Brooks Automation 65.75 37.88 -42 PHTN Photon Dynamics 83.62 47.38 -43 PRIA Pri Automation 69.38 37.75 -46 LTXX LTX 34.88 17.75 -49 GSNX Gasonics 31.38 15.88 -49 ATMI ATMI Inc 49.69 24.06 -52 ASYT Asyst Technologies 36.50 17.56 -52 KLIC Kulicke & Soffa Industries 32.10 15.13 -53 TOTALS 1420.31 960.48 -32 SOX-X Phili Semiconductor Index 1239.11 953.69 -23 COMPQX Nasdaq Composite Index 4246.18 3789.47 -11 * Component of 16 stock SOX-X Index