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Technology Stocks : Semi-Equips - Buy when BLOOD is running in the streets! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mason Barge who wrote (6811)	8/28/1998 9:55:00 AM
From: Q.	Respond to of 10921

I did a screen for stocks with very low ratios of price/cash, and I turned up 3 semi equips in the top 11 stocks of the list: p/cash p/b PSR SFAM, 1.2 0.7 1.1 BRKS, 1.2 0.7 0.9 MTSN. 1.3 0.8 0.6 The way I did the screen is I used telescan's prosearch, which has a database of 7000 stock. I screened for stocks with a market cap > $45 M and debt/equity < 10%. I limited p/b to a max of 4, and PSR to a max of 7. Then I ranked them for the price/cash ratio, and by hand I threw out insurers, ADRs, and co.'s with multiple stock classes. I found there were absolutely no stocks meeting these requirements with a price/cash ratio below 1.0. So I think these 3 semiequip stocks must be pretty close to a floor. If anyone is interested, here's a link to the dozen or so stocks that topped the list: quote.yahoo.com