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To: Poet who wrote (8737)	12/26/2000 12:00:27 PM
From: hobo	Respond to of 10876

good morning Poet. well, it seems fairly tame, slipping a bit... to undecided i guess. i found yet another interesting company, perhaps a little late now, however, in looking at the chart, it seems to have shown strength during these times of volatility and weakness... (i wished i had found it earlier) that company is Praxair (PX - NYSE) optionable so here is some info: bigcharts.com praxair.com praxair.com Year to date Results: For the 9 months ended Sept-30-00, revenues rose 10% to $3.77B. Net income before accounting change rose 9% to $358M. Revenues reflect price improvements, partially offset by increased interest expenses. Institutional Ownership & Insider Trading 853 Institutions own 81.1% of the 159 million common shares outstanding. The average institutional ownership of the Chemical Manufacturing Industry is 48.9%, and the average institutional ownership of the S&P 500 as a whole is 57.7%. Insiders hold 22.2 million shares. In the last 6 months, there has been one insider purchase for 9.00 thousand shares, and there have been 4 insider sales for a total of 71.0 thousand shares Peer Analysis Comparable TTM Annual P/E Market Companies Revenue Growth Ratio Cap ($M) ($M) Rate BASF AG (BF) 32,169 NM 17 26,198 Dow Chem (DOW) 21,725 16.4% 16 25,272 Air Prod (APD) 5,496 (19.0)% 70 9,144 PPG Ind(PPG) 8,428 5.9% 12 7,636 Boc Group (BOX) NA NM 14 7,397 Union Carb(UK) 6,480 0.0% 21 7,183 Praxair (PX) 4,973 13.4% 15 6,790 Monsanto (MON) 5,422 (19.9)% 43 6,112 Imperial (ICI) 11,151 (25.4)% 12 5,993 Ciba (CSB) 4,695 NM 19 4,312 Sherwin-W (SHW) 5,210 10.9% 12 3,823 Sasol (SASOY) NA NM 8 3,793 Sigma-A (SIAL) 1,067 5.9% 25 2,987