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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kathleen capps who wrote (25872)	2/9/1998 7:00:00 PM
From: Brian Moore	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 132070

The point of the Boston Chicken article seems to be that if an nvestor only looks at a few "key numbers" they may be misled. Prudent investors would have looked further and found that loan loss reserves were not being set up, despite the apparent need. I appreciate the responses I've received, tips for books on this topic. Apparently the people managing funds do not have the time or ability to perform the thorough analysis that members on this thread are capable of. Or perhaps they just ignore it, since in these times many of these stocks seem to have a momentum of their own and they just wish to join the crowd and cash in. (I see even that fellow Mohan has started doing this today with his AOL calls.) ;-) I do agree that the analysts' opinions seem to lag the action, not predict it. I follow Oracle. There was recently a big drop from 32 to 22, and then to 18. At that point they should have come out and said it was a good buy. Amazingly, at that point they downgraded it. Then today when it hit 28 I noticed a major firm has come out with an upgrade. So I see what you mean.