I think there's a little bit of negative sentiment in the market. Back-to-school sales at retailers were not especially great, and that put a little damper on things. People start focusing on valuations, which is an old story. But valuations are still, you know, pretty high,
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I think the market ought to be satisfied with the idea that at least there's not going to be anymore tightening. You know, it's only a couple months ago that people were saying the Fed was going to tighten all through the fall. So now that it looks like they're not, people are saying, wow, maybe they'll ease now. But I think that is quite a way off, probably some time next year.David Braverman
Its a great story, turning profitable now, ... Their pricing is improving. We look for next year (for the company to post) about 1.80 (a share) in earnings -- about 3 in the following year. So its a very timely item here.
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I think stock selection is going to be key. It's just like last year, where if you picked a stock at random, you probably lost money even though the averages were up. And stock selection's going to be key again. You have to pick stocks that are going to have earnings that exceed the consensus. It sounds very simple but it's not the easiest thing in the world to do,
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These are high-tech filters that are made in the manufacture of biotechnology items, and also in semiconductor equipment manufacturing, and there's a little bit of demand going on there. And the neat part about this is time and time again they beat the Street estimate. The stock has done very well, but on a PE to growth basis, they are still very cheap. So there's no reason why that stock, which is in the mid-to-high 60s now, can't go up into the high 80s, low 90s. Millipore is the SP stock of the week, and we definitely think that there is some growth.
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Whatever volatility we've seen today can be attributed to oil.
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