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Technology Stocks : TouchStone S/W (TSSW) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tom r. phillips who wrote (1192)	1/10/1998 9:55:00 AM
From: David Alan Cook	Respond to of 3627

TSSW's Price Ratios as of Friday's Close ( 9 Jan 97 ): Price Ratios: -------------- 1) Price to Sales: TSSW: 1.51 Industry: 9.65 Lower is Better Target Using Industry Avg = ( 9.65 / 1.51 ) * $1.75 = $11.18 2) Price to Book: TSSW: 1.38 Industry: 12.09 Lower is Better Target Using Industry Avg = ( 12.09 / 1.38 ) * $1.75 = $15.33 3) Price to Earnings: Industry = 48.96 TSSW Estimate for 98 = .13 Target Using Industry Avg = ( 48.96 * .13 ) = $6.36 * Need to see TSSW return to profitability soon to start trading more closer to the Industry Average Price Multiples. DC

To: tom r. phillips who wrote (1192)	1/12/1998 9:54:00 PM
From: Buy_Low_Sell_High	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3627

It is interesting that TSSW was not even included in the analysis. Makes one wonder if Dr. Soloman had anything to do with selecting the products to begin with. Speculation on my part: Dr. Soloman has a much bigger market share in Europe. They are looking to expand in the US. Acquisitions have been part of their strategy in Europe. Will that be the same strategy they intend to use in the US? Who would they acquire - hmmmm TSSW maybe??? The following products were included in the virus software evaluation. Windows NT scanner File viruses(%) Macro viruses(%) Avast 32 (25.8.1997) 100 86.77 AVP 3.0 (2.9.1997) 100 98.18 Dr. Solomon 7.74 100 100 F-PROT Professional 3.00 (23.8.1997) 99.06 100 H+BEDV Antivir 1.02 93.91 80.00 IBM Antivirus 3.0 (15.8.1997) 99.99 99.86 McAfee Scan 3.0.3 (20.8.1997) 99.74 100 Norman Virus Control 4.20 (3.9.1997) 100 97.13 Norton Antivirus 2.0.1 (14.8.1997) 98.44 100 Perforin for Winword 2.0b ----- 89.09 Sweep 3.00 100 94.55 Thunderbyte 4.00 98.36 96.22 Virusafe 7.5 (13.8.1997) 96.82 87.05 Table 6: Virus detection analysis of Windows NT scanners