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

To: Gottfried who wrote (7320)	11/13/1998 3:41:00 AM
From: Q.	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10921

table of short interest in semi-equip stocks: The list below is interesting. Keep in mind two opposing things: * there is a high correlation between high short interest and a bad outcome for a company. That's because shorts are often right. * if the shorts are wrong, especially in their timing, then a high short interest can add fuel to the fire of a rapid stock price rise. Here's a list of short interest in Oct 98 for semi-equips: stock, % of shares out shorted, days to cover at 30-day ave. volume UTEK 13% 14 days IPEC 9% 8 PRIA 8% 8 LRCX 7% 2 NVLS 8% 2 AMAT 4% 2 KLAC 4% 2 ASYT 4% 3 SFAM 3% 2 MTSN 2% 6 BRKS 2% 2 DPMI 2% 2 FSII 1% 3 GSNX 1% 2 SVGI 1% 1 SMTL 0% 0 MASK 1% 2 I haven't been following UTEK. Does anybody know why shorts would be so interested in them, compared to other small semi-equps?