FEI Company (NASDAQ:FEIC)

pkihei (< 20) Submitted: 3/15/2007 5:10:54 PM : Start Price: $25.51 FEIC Score: +80.46

This stock is a long term holding on the expected growth in nano technology research like during the gold rush i am going with a pick and shovel company i expect now as then they will do better in the long run than a comodity type company that produces whatever new product, that gets discovered .to modify elements on the atomic level you need to be able to see what you are working with FEIC makes one of the most widly used electron microscopes in the research world which is proven by their order backlog this coupled with the new table top microscope should drive earnings for several years to come

utahsnowskier (73.03) Submitted: 2/8/2007 12:44:15 AM : Start Price: $31.31 FEIC Score: +48.99

The exec's aren't overpaid like most companies. This is a good sign. Lots of cash.

NetscribeNanoTch (75.04) Submitted: 1/29/2007 7:57:30 AM : Start Price: $25.80 FEIC Score: +78.37

FEI is a leading supplier of products and systems that enable research, development and manufacture of nanoscale features by helping their customers to image, characterize, analyze and modify three-dimensional structures. It serves the customers in the semiconductor, data storage and industry and institute markets in 50 countries. It provides its products or services to these markets through its four segments: Microelectronics, Electron Optics, Service and Components. The company's products include transmission electron microscopes, scanning electron microscopes, focused ion-beam systems, DualBeam systems and software systems for computer-aided-design navigation and yield management.

FEI reported record third quarter results with revenue and net income reaching the highest total in company’s history. The company has started booking net profits since the past two quarters and is moving into the profit zone after incurring net losses for the past four quarters. The company’s sales have been growing in both the product and the service segment with steady improvements in gross margins. The company is taking various measures to improve its earnings, such as cost-cutting initiatives and new product development. This is evident on the back of its range of new products such as Titan electron microscope, the Nova NanoSEM, a new generation of the Vitrobot and S/TEM system platforms along with the recent introduction of V600FIB.

The company reported fifth quarter of sequential growth in the bookings, with the bookings reaching a record high in the third quarter. Moreover the backlogs also touched an all time high with a positive growth for the seventh straight quarter. Additionally with the nanotechnology research growing at a rapid pace globally, it is expected that the demand for the products and services provided by the company will also grow. The company looks to be in a good position with the all the performance attributes reaching new heights each quarter.

svensson1bo (68.18) Submitted: 1/28/2007 9:42:47 AM : Start Price: $25.80 FEIC Score: +78.37

Expect a good FY06 end result

nickbaes (90.19) Submitted: 1/21/2007 11:37:55 AM : Start Price: $25.82 FEIC Score: +78.84

Nanotech's safest play. Picks and shovels to the nano world.
They dominate Atomic Force Microscopes.

(veco is interesting as well)

eighteentires (52.92) Submitted: 1/8/2007 2:45:18 AM : Start Price: $25.93 FEIC Score: +76.51

For those of us that watched Robin Williams in the 1978 series 'Mork and Mindy,' you may remember Williams (a.k.a. Mork from Ork) always saying: nanoo-nanoo. Don't remember exactly why Mork said that; nonetheless it does start to bring this pitch to its better point. And that would be Nanotechnology (Nano.)

Nano is : how many angels can you fit on the head of a pen. But that likely told you nothing----unless your function junction capacitates like mine...!!??!! Okay, now that i've wrecked the brain-train and have you....listen up...lol ! Please ! Thank you...lol !

I have no expertise (likely very obvious) about nano. That said--here: Nano covers a broad subject or is an umbrella so to speak term. Yet, i can concisely state what it is and hopes to become. Good ! Because so far you have quite the mouth-full. (This is entirely to much fun....)

Nano is the control of matter on a scale smaller than one micron. The dream of many a scientist, entrepreneur, investment banker is to fabricate things much smaller. Even make the machines that make things smaller----smaller themselves. Imagine the industrial revolution, again, happening. Except this time from a molecular level and encompassing, very likely, the production of everything. Yes, i said everything. I believe FEI is involved with a disruptive technology.

FEI fits in this way: they make, service and market products which are used in research development. Such is big business. Data storage and semicondutor companies are customers. Three dimensional viewing provides enormous understanding - - -Titan microscope.

Yes, for most of us trying to say what FEI does after reading articles such as Value-Line is like trying to professionally practice medicine after reading a couple of medical journals.

And since that is likely the case for most of us, i pitch, too, some fundamentals most everyone can value. Nano is here! Nano is evolving. And as the Industrial Revolution changed the world, i believe Nanotechnology will.

Not mentioned, thus far, has been FEI finances. Very strong ! They're cost conscious. Yahoo Finance their books ! Value Line their books ! Only downside, i've noticed ( or felt relevant) was no dividend.

Summary: Of the many things that will happen to our economy, the fruitful disruption of nano is one.

stries (35.39) Submitted: 12/7/2006 6:17:56 PM : Start Price: $25.01 FEIC Score: +83.20

Nonotech winner

gr8iml8 (68.82) Submitted: 11/8/2006 4:07:24 PM : Start Price: $25.38 FEIC Score: +79.05

Forward PE 1/3 of trailing PE. 'Nuf said.

lkyirish (42.48) Submitted: 9/5/2006 11:40:53 PM : Start Price: $19.98 FEIC Score: +120.27

Nano tech---forward looking company with great cash to debt, solid products, and a solid growth history. Not your everyday nanotech company. The growth, and potential, warrent a close look as this next 6mo-year comes about.