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

To: Donald Wennerstrom who wrote (2365)	1/1/1999 3:41:00 PM
From: Donald Wennerstrom	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2754

In going over the closing prices for 1998, a very interesting coincidence comes to light when a comparison is made to the group low for 1997 occurring with the closing prices of 4/25/97. The sum of the group prices on 4/25/97 is 760, and the sum of the closing prices yesterday was 760. This means that after a period of 20 months the group is right back where it started. Of course within the group, individual stocks have changed. The results are shown below. 16 stocks were up during the 20 month period, and 25 stocks were down. 6 stocks are up more than 50 percent. 4 stocks are down more than 50 percent. 04/25/97 12/31/98 CLOSE CLOSE PERCENT SYMBOL COMPANY PRICE PRICE CHANGE ASYT Asyst Technologies 9.94 20.38 105 NVLS Novellus Systems 26.44 49.50 87 VECO Veeco Instruments 29.25 53.13 82 AMAT Applied Materials 24.32 42.69 76 ASMLF ASM Lithography Holdings 18.25 30.50 67 PLAB Photronics 15.88 23.97 51 ETEC Etec System 27.50 40.00 45 NANO Nanometrics 5.50 7.81 42 ATMI ATMI Inc 18.00 25.25 40 TER Teradyne 30.75 42.38 38 CMOS Credence Systems 14.50 18.50 28 PRIA Pri Automation 22.57 26.00 15 MASK Align-Rite International 10.63 11.63 9 GSNX Gasonics 8.13 8.75 8 KLAC KLA Instruments 41.50 43.38 5 BRKS Brooks Automation 14.00 14.63 5 DPMI Dupont Photomasks 45.00 42.44 -6 PHTN Photon Dynamics 5.44 5.13 -6 UTEK Ultratech Stepper 17.50 16.00 -9 FSII FSI International 11.50 10.38 -10 MICN Micrion 13.13 11.75 -11 COHU Cohu 24.88 22.00 -12 HELX Helix Technology 15.50 13.00 -16 CYMI Cymer 17.69 14.63 -17 WJ Watkins Johnson 26.38 20.38 -23 MTSN Mattson Technology 8.00 5.78 -28 EGLS Electroglas 16.50 11.75 -29 IPEC Integrated Process Equipment 15.13 10.75 -29 SFAM SpeedFAM 26.13 17.13 -34 KLIC Kulicke & Soffa Industries 27.25 17.75 -35 SVGI Silicon Valley Group 19.75 12.75 -35 LRCX Lam Research 27.75 17.81 -36 SMTL Semitool 9.63 6.13 -36 SFLX Smartflex Systems 11.88 7.25 -39 LTXX LTX 4.25 2.56 -40 IMSC Integrated Measurement Systems 13.25 7.50 -43 TGAL Tegal 5.50 2.88 -48 AFLX Adflex Solutions 14.25 6.94 -51 WFR MEMC Electronic Materials 25.50 8.50 -67 CFMT CFM Technologies 32.50 8.50 -74 ASEC Aseco 8.75 1.38 -84 TOTALS 760.20 759.56 0 SOX-X Phili Semiconductor Index 263.06 350.56 33