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Technology Stocks : FSII - The Worst is Over? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Donald Wennerstrom who wrote (1904)	4/19/1998 6:19:00 PM
From: Donald Wennerstrom	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2754

I just updated the database with inputs from Zack's earnings estimate for the current year and next year. Then, based on the closing prices from last Friday, the PE ratio for each year can be computed. The result is shown below, sorted by the next year PE ratio. Keep in mind the notoriously bad analyst estimates that are sometimes present when evaluating the data in the table. The first three entries in the table do not have earnings estimates for next year. If a blank occurs in the current year, the estimate for the current years earnings is negative. P/E SYMBOL COMPANY CURR YR NEXT YR PHTN Photon Dynamics 375 NANO Nanometrics 11 TGAL Tegal CMOS Credence Systems 13 9 COHU Cohu 10 10 AFLX Adflex Solutions 13 10 KLIC Kulicke & Soffa Industries 15 10 LTXX LTX 32 11 IMSC Integrated Measurement Systems 13 11 MASK Align-Rite International 12 11 SMTL Semitool 18 11 SFLX Smartflex Systems 17 11 TER Teradyne 15 12 MTSN Mattson Technology 12 ASYT Asyst Technologies 15 13 NVLS Novellus Systems 18 13 MICN Micrion 19 14 VECO Veeco Instruments 23 16 SVGI Silicon Valley Group 24 16 ASEC Aseco 21 17 DPMI Dupont Photomasks 20 17 KLAC KLA Instruments 19 17 AMAT Applied Materials 23 18 ETEC Etec System 25 18 SFAM SpeedFAM 21 19 GSNX Gasonics 30 19 HELX Helix Technology 22 19 PRIA Pri Automation 30 19 EGLS Electroglas 49 20 ASMLF ASM Lithography Holdings 26 20 FSII FSI International 20 PLAB Photronics 26 21 ATMI ATMI Inc 28 21 UTEK Ultratech Stepper 42 23 IPEC Integrated Process Equipment 32 24 WJ Watkins Johnson 28 CYMI Cymer 61 28 CFMT CFM Technologies 28 BRKS Brooks Automation 34 WFR MEMC Electronic Materials 37 LRCX Lam Research 430 39