tbul@trsvax.UUCP (05/16/84)
#N:trsvax:52900004:000:2361 trsvax!tbul May 16 12:51:00 1984 <Take that, you sloth!> "Bargains below $5" The following list was taken from the May 21 issue of Forbes. These are only some of the figures presented, so go to your local library and look at the issue for the complete scoop (p 246). Company/business price P/E curr ratio ret on eqty Alaska Bancorporation/banking $4.25 3.7 1.05 18.3% Barco of California/apparel 3.625 12.9 3.79 6.3 C & R Clothiers/retail 1.5 12.5 1.63 3.1 Consumers Financial/insurance 2.25 14.1 0.53 6.2 Dahlberg Electronics/health care products 4.875 12.5 2.93 28.5 Essex Corp/technical svcs 4.5 9 1.91 14.9 Gemco National/building materials 4.375 6.4 1.91 6.6 Harvest Industries/food processing 3.75 10.7 3.81 8.8 Jiffy Industries/leasing 1.5 1.9 0.8 65.4 LCS Inds/marketing sbcs 3 5.7 1.75 31.5 Lomak Petroleum/oil and gas 1.06 15.2 1.05 17.5 MCO Resources/oil and gas explor and dev 3.125 24 2.72 13.1 Natpac/food processing 1 6.7 1.24 2.5 Noel Industries/apparel 3 15 1.56 5.3 Penn Engineering/machinery and construct 1.875 6.5 1.31 13.9 Peoples Restaurants/restaurants 2 9.1 1.31 5.8 Powell Industries/electrical equip 3.5 13 3.28 10.4 Rauch Inds/xmas decorations 5 8.2 2.12 25.4 Sterner Lighting Sys/liughting equip 4.125 27.5 2.43 14.4 Topsy's Intl/fast food 2.875 8.2 1.12 7.7 TransNet/computer svcs 2.375 5.5 4.82 16.2 Treco/real estate 3 2.1 0.45 38.1 Utd Central Bancshares/bank holding 4.06 10.7 1.03 6.6 Weiman/film svbcs, home furnshngs 3.875 35.2 2.03 3.1 Yardney/batteries 4.75 14 4.05 11.7 I see nothing on the list to get excited about but thought others might find it of interest. Thomas Bulkowski "If I have seen farther than others it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants." - Sir Issac Newton ctvax!trsvax!tbul Fort Worth, Texas