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To: deeiche1 who wrote (510)	4/7/2008 7:15:50 PM
From: deeiche1	Respond to of 4721

I'm taking the time to read your old posts. I pretty much started out blind, without taking the time to read what you'd posted previously. So I'm afraid you're getting more noise than useful commentary from me right now.

To: deeiche1 who wrote (510)	4/8/2008 2:52:38 AM
From: bruwin	Respond to of 4721

I asked the question to see what line of analysis you may be following, and, IMO, you seem to be going in the right direction. When I look at a company's Financial Statements I usually target the following areas in both the Quarterly and Annual results :- 1) Revenue performance 2) EBITDA Margin 3) Interest Expense 4) Pretax Return on Cap. Employed 5) Taxation 6) Net Income (Bottom Line) performance, excluding extra-ordinary items 7) Long term debt to equity 8) P/E 9) Dividend In our opinion, these items, amongst others, give one a fairly good idea if a company is currently "firing on all its financial cylinders". There are one or two aspects I'd like to discuss with you, but I would prefer to do it on the other web site where we sometimes meet. Maybe you can pop in there at some time.