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- From: McAldon International Inc. <mcaldon@igc.apc.org>
- Newsgroups: misc.invest
- Date: 30 Dec 92 22:02 PST
- Subject: Re: Contrarian trading in stocks priced
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- Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!mcaldon Dec 30 22:02:00 1992
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- |Does anyone know what the performance is for major exchange stocks whose price
- |has fallen below a dollar? (I'm not speaking of "penny" stocks, but rather
- |NYSE, AMEX, and NASDAQ stocks that at one time traded above 5, but for one
- |reason or another have fallen down to prices like 1/2 or 11/16).
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- I think you'll find that stocks selling below a dollar are in really bad
- shape. People will pay a buck a share for anything with a glimmer of
- hope, like Pan-Am before the plug was finally pulled. Furthermore, there
- are so-called vulture funds picking over this stuff daily, with better
- access to facts than the average investor.
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- |Although I realize that many of these stocks belong to corporations on the
- |skids, and quite often they eventually go belly up leaving the stockholder
- |with zip, there are certainly plenty of comeback stories. It has occurred
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- I can't think of any, but I have a bad memory -- a serious deficiency in this
- game. Could you name a few that came back from below $1.00?
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- |I suppose there's some danger of reverse splits causing me to hold odd lots.
- |At prices under a dollar, though I'd probably want to buy at least 1000 shares
- |per company, just because of the commission hit. I'm assuming reverse splits
- |of greater than 1 for 10 are unusual enough to be discountable -- is this a
- |valid premise? John Cooper
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- I had 1,000 shares of Elxsi which I bought at $0.25 because I'd heard
- a couple of entrepreneurs had taken over the company to make it a venture
- capital outfit. First couple of things they did was invest in some
- East Coast restaurants and do a reverse split, 1 for 25. Now I have 40
- shares of a $5 stock.
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- | DMcKenzie | "Time is the best teacher. |
- | mcaldon@igc.org | Unfortunately, it kills all its |
- | | pupils." Hector-Louis Berlioz |
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