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Strategies & Market Trends : The Thread Formerly Known as No Rest For The Wicked -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Junkyardawg who wrote (15572)	3/5/1999 1:10:00 PM
From: JakeStraw	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 90042

I like NMGC, but the market currently doesn't. The consensus seems to think the competition is gaining and NMGC's margins are shrinking. It is cheap but ya got to wonder why it is so cheap....

To: Junkyardawg who wrote (15572)	3/6/1999 1:37:00 AM
From: Junkyardawg	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 90042

DD: Ticker: COST 52 Wk Low: $41.25 52-Wk High: $86.00 02/26/99 Price: $80.31 Business Summary Costco Companies, Inc. operates a chain of wholesale cash and carry membership warehouses. For the twelve weeks ended 11/22/98, total revenues increased 10% to $6 billion. Net income before accounting change increased 6% to $104.2 million. Revenues benefitted from the opening of a net of 14 new warehouses and higher comparable warehouse sales due to new marketing and merchandising efforts. Earnings were partially offset by higher relative costs of opening new warehouses. Recent Earnings Announcement For the 12 weeks ended 02/14/1999, revenues were 6,592,358; after tax earnings were 152,032. (preliminary; reported in thousands of dollars) Daily Volume (3-month avg) 1.75M Share-Related Items Market Capitalization $18.9B Shares Outstanding 218.3M Book Value (mrq) $13.66 Shares Short as of Feb 8, 1999 5.82M Short Ratio 3.08 Earnings (ttm) $2.15 Float 187.7M News: biz.yahoo.com biz.yahoo.com dawg