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$24.46 0.37 (1.54%)
5/22/2008 3:55 PM

Encore Wire Corp (WIRE)

CAPS Rating:
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Low-cost manufacturer of copper electrical building wire and cable. It supplies residential wire for interior wiring in homes, apartments and manufactured housing, and commercial wire for electrical distribution in commercial and industrial buildings.

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357 Outperforms
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Ticker Tags

Copper (24), Industrial Electrical Equipment (60), Micro Cap (4824)
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Encore Wire Corp At A Glance

Current Price: $24.46
Last Trade Time: 5/22/2008 3:55 PM
Open: $24.25
Previous Close: $24.09
Daily Range: $24.17 - $24.82
52-Week Range: $14.83 - $32.23
Volume: 217,502
Market Cap: $556.77M
P/E Ratio: 14.78
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Encore Wire Corp (WIRE)

Avatar CycleFreak7 (86.34) Submitted: 3/07/07 10:36 PM

Seems like a good entry point for this (apparently unreasonably) beaten down stock.

Also, some rumors of potential takeover target.

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Encore Wire Corp (WIRE)

Avatar DavidBear (< 20) Submitted: 5/14/07 2:41 AM

This is a Cyclical company. As such, metrics like PE are not necessarily a good way to value the stock. If someone knows a reason why this is no longer a cyclical stock, I'd love to hear it. Based on historical price growth (looking at the lows from may 1993 to may 2005, shows a growth rate of ab...More

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Avatar heavyhiting (45.15) Submitted: 5/19/08 6:33 AM : Outperform Start Price: $23.88 WIRE Score: 4.87

MAKER OF ALL THINGS COPPER WIRE.

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Avatar Tenacityz (80.29) Submitted: 4/24/08 2:48 PM : Outperform Start Price: $23.00 WIRE Score: 6.49

Set to move.

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Avatar Beautiful58 (21.49) Submitted: 4/24/08 10:04 AM : Outperform Start Price: $22.21 WIRE Score: 8.66

Everywhere you travel there is some kind of wire used for everything

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Avatar crimfunk (94.74) Submitted: 2/21/08 9:39 PM : Outperform Start Price: $17.00 WIRE Score: 40.70

supercycle

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Avatar rationalexchange (< 20) Submitted: 2/06/08 8:51 PM : Underperform Start Price: $16.43 WIRE Score: -43.21

Now that the Chinese stock market is in tune again with other bourses of the world and is going down, oil and gold will not be able to move any higher.

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TrackSterneAgee 97.64 05/16/08 Underperform NS $23.97+2.21%-2.26%-4.47
TrackCarisandCo < 20 05/16/08 Underperform NS $23.97+2.21%-2.26%-4.47
TrackJanney < 20 05/13/08 Outperform NS $24.00+2.08%-0.53%+2.62
TrackFerrisBaker 76.78 01/11/08 Outperform NS $16.48+48.28%-0.52%+48.80
TrackSoros 75.99 09/30/07 Outperform NS $25.05-2.21%-8.53%+6.33 Toggle the visibility of 60-Second Pitch and replies
TrackJimCramer 80.64 11/14/06 Underperform 3W $23.88+2.34%-0.50%-2.84

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