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Biotech / Medical : THOR-Thoratec Corporation -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: robert b furman who wrote (6)	11/4/2008 6:33:39 AM
From: robert b furman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8

Q3 earnings out - up 44 %. Heartmate II providing good growth. 26 new centers came on board for the quarter. phx.corporate-ir.net The stock has now made an island reversal: stockcharts.com Think like a criminal: Senior convertible debt converted into stock. Announce a trials finding of all failures since inception (For the benefit of the clinicians.This looks like a recalll but isn't - price collapses.Hold a webcast and explain the professsionalism of data and long term good news. Then blow away earnings numbers,as sellers of the converted stock buy back at a 10% hair cut and then quickly recover with killer earnings that you know are coming. NAH - just my paranoid - but really clever if they are that good. Nothing beats getting your debt converted into a winning stock and then turn it into cash just in time to buy the stock back on a discount. It is really clever and I'm thinking way too much or am I? Bob That IS WHAT HAPPENED!!