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Technology Stocks : Agilent Technologies (A) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: bob zagorin who wrote (381)	12/14/2000 5:05:58 PM
From: deepenergyfella	Respond to of 620

Bob, To coin a popular phrase 'I might be late walking into this movie after it already started' refering to jumping into your this thread knowing very little about Agilent or Tektronix so forgive my questions if they are common knowledge to everyone else on the thread. Agilent caught my interest in an investment class I attended as the instructor mentioned this stock and why it was going to be successful. Simply put he stated that testing and measuring equipment companies were the equivalent to shovel and pick-axe manufacturers who supplied gold rush prospectors in the late 1800's early 1900's. He claimed that solid future sectors like healthcare, biotech, aerospace and defense etc. would be required to spend considerable budgets on testing and measuring equipment to fuel research and develop new products and services in their respective industries. Similar to how every gold prospector needed the minimum tools of a pick-axe and shovel to go to work fortune seeking...each modern technology company in the various growth sectors requires the new minimum tools of electronic testing and measuring equipment to go to work. So if that simplified understanding of Agilent is true and our gold rush is now called something new like an 'optical-design and testing product rush' among other things then the future looks bright for Tektronics and Agilent does it not? So my questions are this. 1) How would a 2001 downturn in the US economy affect Agilent or Tektronics? 2) What are the outlooks for Agilents earning over 2001? 3) The chart for Agilent looks impressive is this thought to be the beginning of a long steady price upswing? 4) Are they issueing more shares in the near term (6months)? 5) What are the risks...i can only seem to see the upside? Thanks, -def