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$10.14 0.04 (0.40%)
8/29/2008 3:40 PM

STEC, Inc. (STEC)

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The Company designs, develops, manufactures and markets custom memory solutions based on Flash memory and Dynamic Random Access Memory technologies.

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268 Outperforms
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STEC, Inc. At A Glance

Current Price: $10.14
Last Trade Time: 8/29/2008 3:40 PM
Open: $10.10
Previous Close: $10.10
Daily Range: $9.98 - $10.18
52-Week Range: $5.67 - $14.25
Volume: 638,159
Market Cap: $505.82M
P/E Ratio: 84.17
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Avatar mattro88 (79.66) Submitted: 6/24/08 3:22 PM

Solid state disks are the way of the future - they are faster, smaller, and more reliable than spinning disks. Right now investors are concerned about weakness in consumer electronics sales, which has hurt both STEC and SNDK. What these shorts fail to recognize is that SSDs are beginning to take s...More

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Avatar tenmiles (99.96) Submitted: 5/05/08 11:11 AM

Selling the buzz related to the potential Apple MacBook chip win - appears largely reflected in share price after run-up - still a small player - technicals suggest 10-15% retracement likely within two quarters from $11

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Avatar gunark (90.80) Submitted: 7/03/08 4:52 PM : Underperform Start Price: $10.06 STEC Score: 1.53

Screen: 2 stars, 40+% rise in last 14 weeks, P/E ratio higher than 20.

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Avatar mattro88 (79.66) Submitted: 6/24/08 3:22 PM : Outperform Start Price: $10.95 STEC Score: -6.23

Solid state disks are the way of the future - they are faster, smaller, and more reliable than spinning disks. Right now investors are concerned about weakness in consumer electronics sales, which has hurt both STEC and SNDK. What these shorts fail to recognize is that SSDs are beginning to take share from spinning disks in larger applications, from laptop computers to enterprise storage. STEC's SSD technology is cutting edge, and their revenue is growing. I don't buy the argument that disk giants like Western Digital could simply flick a switch and start making SSDs which would wipe out smaller players like STEC. More likely, they would buy out an SSD expert like STEC or SNDK at a nice premium. Competition from Samsung is a bigger concern, but I'm betting there will be room in this market for competition, and that on STEC's superior technology will carry them.

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Avatar JohnnyiPhone (< 20) Submitted: 6/11/08 11:25 AM : Outperform Start Price: $12.65 STEC Score: -16.20

Member of the "Undervalued Club" bandwagon.

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Avatar datastorage (42.45) Submitted: 6/06/08 4:00 PM : Outperform Start Price: $13.70 STEC Score: -20.57

Simply outperforming at an Engineering level. Enterprise market for SSDs.

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Avatar Budsworth (20.27) Submitted: 6/05/08 6:17 AM : Outperform Start Price: $14.15 STEC Score: -21.76

It's a sleeper!

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TrackOppenheimer < 20 08/05/08 Outperform NS $11.09-9.02%+2.46%-11.48
TrackBroadpointC 93.68 04/11/08 Outperform NS $6.82+47.95%-4.23%+52.18
TrackNorthlandSe < 20 01/14/08 Outperform NS $10.01+0.80%-8.39%+9.19
TrackDreman 97.20 09/30/07 Outperform NS $7.63+32.24%-15.36%+47.60 Toggle the visibility of 60-Second Pitch and replies
TrackAGEdwards 93.78 03/15/07 Outperform NS $8.50+18.71%-7.07%+25.78
TrackNeedham < 20 10/24/06 Outperform NS $8.84+14.14%-5.93%+20.07
TrackLehmanBros 91.83 09/28/06 Outperform NS $8.50+18.71%-3.52%+22.22

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