It looks cheap and commands a growth position amid technology peers.
Because it looks for cheap stocks, the firms it identifies usually have some sort of fear or problem hanging over them.
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And while the company is now the second-largest company in the world by market cap, it nonetheless looks statistically cheap by any standard metric.
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But if you are buying only because it looks like a cheap biotech stock at 36 times earnings, you should look twice at those earnings.
"It looks like an extremely cheap attempt by ExxonMobil to buy a shield from criticism, " said Peter Altman, national coordinator of Campaign ExxonMobil, a US shareholder group trying to influence the company's positions on the environment.
Though faecal transplantation for C. difficile has still to undergo a formal clinical trial, with a proper control group, it looks a promising (and cheap) answer to a serious threat.
Still Sega has pulled this off before and after factoring out the imponderables like VM Labs and super-cheap PCs, it looks like it just might do it again.
Boeing ( BA) looks cheap, too, but it carries both defense-cutback risk and risk from its snake-bitten 787 jetliner program.
So it looks like firefighters may be the next unlucky professionals replaced by cheap robotic labor, at least if a snakebot built by the Foundation for Industrial and Scientific Research in Norway (SINTEF) ever makes it into mass production.
Even though the company looks cheap, plenty of short-sellers are betting against it.
It looks like the variable cost of upgrading to newer curriculum will be pretty cheap, though, which is good- its just a question of how long the equipment can last.
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That looks good, the idea of cheap plentiful food, but there is also an ugliness to it.
But it's the subsequent tendency of Sallie Mae's shares to be knocked around by political news that seems to have made it undervalued by the market. (See: "Thanks To The Democrats: Sallie Looks Cheap") The stock was trading at just 12.5 times expected 2007 earnings before the close on Thursday, the last day before takeover rumors surfaced.
If you bought a stock for its growth characteristics and the rate of growth is showing signs of slowing, that would be a cause for concern. (This would particularly be the case if it looks like internal factors had an adverse affect.) Conversely, if you bought a stock because the valuation was cheap, a merely decent (as opposed to a great) report might be acceptable.
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