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Technology Stocks : Asyst Technologies (ASYT) Good Value/Where is the Bottom? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Q. who wrote (565)	11/24/1997 11:43:00 AM
From: Doug Skrypek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2313

Adams Harkness is a very small firm, and the downgrade from them had no impact on the price.

To: Q. who wrote (565)	12/1/1997 8:43:00 AM
From: Ian@SI	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2313

Interesting history of ASYT as seen through the eyes of a couple Fund managers appeared in a WSJ story this morning. Goes through the warts and concludes with its outstanding performance recently. Need to be registered for the WSJ for the following: interactive.wsj.com Some Mutual-Fund Investors Like Looks of Microcap Stocks By KAREN DAMATO and DEBORAH LOHSE Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL FREMONT, Calif. -- Few tactics in the stock market have been quite as faddish this year as microcap investing -- buying shares in very small companies. Microcaps have captured the fancy of a certain breed of mutual-fund manager and investor bored with stolid blue-chip stocks and enamored of companies most people have never heard of. These people hope to get in early and ride the stocks to dizzying heights as the little companies grow and attract attention. Sometimes, the strategy works. Microcap stock funds, those investing in companies with market values under $300 million, topped the mutual-fund performance charts in the third quarter. ...