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Technology Stocks : Applied Materials No-Politics Thread (AMAT) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (487)	11/14/2001 10:53:36 AM
From: JSwanson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25522

Technology is the one area where i feel very comfortable. The employees are paid nicely, most companies are aware of the environment and take steps accordingly. And I believe in what they do; selling more to consumers at lower and lower prices. Additionally, companies like AMAT have done much for the community. On year they donated 2 million pounds of food to America's hungry; they were one of the first ones in to Taiwan after the major earthquake hit and wrote a check for $100,000 and did something similar with the WTC. I think this admirable but you need to separate a company's operations from its stock price. Over the long run the two are congruent. However, over the short run they can diverge severely. A Trade is often the result of a huge divergence in the stock price and the underlying fundamentals and can be long or short. A good company is not always a good stock. Selling a stock, either before you bought it or after you bought it, is just selling a stock and neither situation has an impact on how much product is sold or whether or not a company gives to charity. Additionally, selling before you buy instead of after you buy has neither a greater or lessor impact on employee options. Selling is Selling, period.