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

To: Joe Dancy who wrote (2189)	8/31/1998 11:09:00 PM
From: Donald Wennerstrom	Respond to of 2754

Well, FSII took another bullet today like all the rest. I thought it would get easier when the PBR started approaching 0.5, but it didn't seem to make any difference. Since there was so much action today, I decided to do a comparison of today's close with Friday's close. Out of the group, only 1 stock was up, and the other 40 were down. The group loss was 10 percent with FSII losing 11 percent. This time I also included a column on present PBR. MASK took a hit of 18 percent even after having record 1st quarter earnings and a PE of 7 for this year and 6 for next year - wow, what a buy!! 08/28/98 08/31/98 PRICE CLOSE CLOSE PERCENT BOOK SYMBOL COMPANY PRICE PRICE CHANGE RATIO PHTN Photon Dynamics 2.44 2.50 2 1.01 WJ Watkins Johnson 20.31 19.69 -3 0.73 MTSN Mattson Technology 4.13 4.00 -3 0.86 KLIC Kulicke & Soffa Industries 13.38 12.94 -3 0.98 EGLS Electroglas 11.13 10.75 -3 1.09 MICN Micrion 8.25 7.94 -4 0.98 SFLX Smartflex Systems 6.19 5.94 -4 0.76 TGAL Tegal 3.13 3.00 -4 0.71 DPMI Dupont Photomasks 28.63 27.38 -4 1.71 LTXX LTX 2.38 2.25 -5 0.61 PRIA Pri Automation 13.41 12.50 -7 2.09 SMTL Semitool 6.56 6.09 -7 0.98 NVLS Novellus Systems 28.69 26.63 -7 2.78 SVGI Silicon Valley Group 10.38 9.63 -7 0.53 HELX Helix Technology 11.06 10.25 -7 3.05 AFLX Adflex Solutions 5.94 5.50 -7 0.90 TER Teradyne 18.81 17.38 -8 1.42 AMAT Applied Materials 26.63 24.56 -8 2.81 UTEK Ultratech Stepper 18.88 17.31 -8 1.36 BRKS Brooks Automation 9.00 8.25 -8 0.64 CMOS Credence Systems 15.94 14.50 -9 1.47 GSNX Gasonics 5.50 5.00 -9 0.85 CFMT CFM Technologies 6.75 6.13 -9 0.56 ASYT Asyst Technologies 11.75 10.63 -10 0.98 COHU Cohu 17.00 15.25 -10 1.06 WFR MEMC Electronic Materials 6.00 5.38 -10 0.44 SFAM SpeedFAM 13.81 12.38 -10 0.67 FSII FSI International 6.03 5.38 -11 0.56 VECO Veeco Instruments 25.50 22.63 -11 2.38 ASEC Aseco 2.00 1.75 -13 0.28 ATMI ATMI Inc 13.31 11.63 -13 1.94 KLAC KLA Instruments 24.75 21.25 -14 1.62 NANO Nanometrics 5.78 4.94 -15 1.46 IPEC Integrated Process Equipment 6.59 5.50 -17 0.71 LRCX Lam Research 13.19 10.94 -17 0.72 PLAB Photronics 14.50 12.00 -17 1.48 ETEC Etec System 29.25 24.13 -18 2.30 MASK Align-Rite International 12.00 9.88 -18 1.17 IMSC Integrated Measurement Systems 7.31 6.00 -18 0.78 CYMI Cymer 12.75 10.25 -20 2.32 ASMLF ASM Lithography Holdings 22.25 17.63 -21 5.11 TOTALS 521 468 -10