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To: SouthFloridaGuy who wrote (37)	12/9/2000 10:55:05 AM
From: noneed	Respond to of 220

i'd say HOTT is hot. from the ibd stock checkup: Earnings Per Share(EPS) Rating -- 99 Relative Price Strength (RS) Rating -- 96 Industry Group Relative Strength (Grp RS) Rating -- A Sales + Profit Margins + ROE (SMR) Rating -- A Accumulation/Distribution (Acc/Dis) Rating -- A Industry Group Rank (1-197) -- 6 Daily Graphs Timeliness -- A Alpha -- 7.24 Beta -- 3.13 Up/Down Volume -- 1.9 % Off 52 Week Price High -- -4% 52 Week Price High -- $43.00 52 Week Price Low -- $14.63 3 Year Earnings Per Share Rate -- 74% 3 Year Sales Rate -- 55% Hot Topic Inc receives an overall rating of A+, which is in the 99th percentile of all stocks in the Investor's Business Daily database. The overall rating is calculated using five proprietary ratings that measure each stock's Technical and Fundamental qualities and the Technical and Fundamental qualities of the industry group that it resides in, as well as a rating on the stock's current price attractiveness. Hot Topic Inc receives a Technical Rating of 98, which places it 3rd out of 63 stocks in the Retail-Apparel/Shoe group. Hot Topic Inc receives a Fundamental Rating of 99, which places it 1st out of 63 stocks in the Retail-Apparel/Shoe group. Hot Topic Inc receives an Attractiveness Rating of 99, placing it 1st out of 63 stocks in its group. The Retail-Apparel/Shoe group's technical rating of B ranks it in the 69th percentile of the 197 different Investor's Business Daily Industry Groups. The Retail-Apparel/Shoe group's fundamental rating is A+, ranking it in the 96th percentile of all groups. investors.com i can't say i'm a big fan of the retail sector, but this one seems to be working. here is the web site: hottopic.com longer term, they will need to stay on the cutting edge, i suspect. my observation of pop culture is that no one is able to stay on the cutting edge for too long. if they follow the trends and change they risk losing their current audience. if they don't follow the trends they don't gain new consumers and still suffer attrition of the current user base over time. a tough business.

To: SouthFloridaGuy who wrote (37)	12/9/2000 1:43:17 PM
From: noneed	Respond to of 220

HOTT - more dd to consider: moneycentral.msn.com

To: SouthFloridaGuy who wrote (37)	12/10/2000 3:54:19 PM
From: noneed	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 220

on the assumption that your prediction of a market bottom is close to correct, what do you think of this list: Symbol 12/M RS 6/M RS 3/M RS EPSGr QvQ EPSGr YvY Net PM Sh Outstanding Price TALX 95.00 98.00 100.00 71.40 625.00 9.10 5,635,000 30.13 KP 99.00 93.00 92.00 372.20 47.80 24.90 12,418,000 24.13 MSS 98.00 96.00 90.00 64.70 223.50 8.80 8,248,000 21.38 TARO 97.00 100.00 99.00 76.50 139.10 8.80 10,710,000 27.38 ROG 96.00 89.00 93.00 50.00 34.80 9.80 15,084,000 40.00 BPFH 94.00 96.00 92.00 66.70 32.70 11.70 15,560,000 16.63 COCO 99.00 100.00 92.00 83.30 136.90 9.50 10,350,000 59.94 HOTT 93.00 97.00 97.00 62.80 125.00 8.70 9,898,000 39.94 MAPS 99.00 98.00 99.00 64.70 80.00 8.40 13,945,000 40.00 EWBC 95.00 98.00 98.00 25.70 55.60 17.60 22,812,000 22.88 CANI 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 51.90 11.30 18,657,000 29.19 AREM 95.00 97.00 100.00 172.70 278.10 20.60 15,298,000 44.44 IFIN 100.00 99.00 98.00 57.10 41.10 9.50 29,865,000 77.25