$35.68

-0.21 (-0.59%)

8/28/2008 4:00 PM

Hittite Microwave Corp (HITT)

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The Company designs and develops performance integrated circuits, or ICs, modules and subsystems for technically demanding radio frequency, or RF, microwave and millimeterwave applications.

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Hittite Microwave Corp At A Glance

Current Price:	$35.68
Last Trade Time:	8/28/2008 4:00 PM
Open:	$35.89
Previous Close:	$35.89
Daily Range:	$35.47 - $35.98
52-Week Range:	$30.66 - $50.68
Volume:	151,188
Market Cap:	$1.11B
P/E Ratio:	20.63
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Avatar DangerMoguls (51.61) Submitted: 2/28/07 3:41 PM

This company has a ton of long term potential. As others have mentioned, the fundamentals look great. 75% gross margins for a hardware company is amazing. The reason is that RF products can be tough to make and don't get the benefit of highly scalable manufacturing like CMOS chips. Excellent gro...More

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Recs 0 (HITT) schuured (59.26) Submitted: 8/13/08 9:01 AM : Start Price: $34.86 HITT Score: 1.12 Hittite Microwave Corp is another relatively boring smaller company with a diverse set of customers. Their financials are consistently strong with steadily growing revenue and EPS. Operating margins have steadily grown over the past four years or so (though '06 to '07 was flat) and they have no debt. High insider ownership in the range of 35% helps, too. Valuation is reasonable at this point ($35), with a PEG around 1.0 and a P/E of 20. I have a price target of about $80 in five years (Conservative DCF value). Nice double if it works out. Report this Post Replies: 0 \| Reply \| Permalink Oops! There appears to be a problem with your comment. Check to see if there's something you left out. Recs 0 (HITT) mkyorai (83.23) Submitted: 8/07/08 1:06 PM : Start Price: $33.44 HITT Score: 5.14 Boring company. Good P/E and a reasonable PEG ratio. Looks to still be very close to the low end of its 52 week range. Medical applications are promising, particularly as the population ages, and I don't forsee any end to the requirement for military applications (particularly high-tech and targeting type applications.) any time soon. On the downside, I'm pretty sure it was the Hittites and the Amarites who were responsible for bringing Zuul to Earth in Ghostbusters. Report this Post Replies: 0 \| Reply \| Permalink Oops! There appears to be a problem with your comment. Check to see if there's something you left out. Recs 0 (HITT) cronsmith (57.35) Submitted: 6/08/08 3:39 PM : Start Price: $39.81 HITT Score: -5.36 Undervalued. Good Fundamentals. Report this Post Replies: 0 \| Reply \| Permalink Oops! There appears to be a problem with your comment. Check to see if there's something you left out. Recs 0 (HITT) timattox (92.90) Submitted: 5/17/08 9:59 PM : Start Price: $40.63 HITT Score: -3.35 From my HiGrowthLoDebt screen... it just fell off the screen due to its recent rise in price. So, if you want to wait for a better price, my poor-man technical analysis indicates we may dip down as low as 35 again "soon", but I think technical analysis is only good for trying to "time the market"... I'm just as happy to make a pick that isn't a potential falling knife for once. :-) HITT has some good stats such as: Return on Equity > 25.9% Return on Assets > 20% Insider Ownership > 38% Gross Margin > 70.6% Profit Margin > 32% Some future blog post may reveal my various screen criteria. But not today. Report this Post Replies: 0 \| Reply \| Permalink Oops! There appears to be a problem with your comment. Check to see if there's something you left out. Recs 0 (HITT) samspade44 (< 20) Submitted: 2/18/08 9:31 PM : Start Price: $34.86 HITT Score: 7.11 HITT has doubled in size in the past two (2) years and continues to take market share in Asia and other parts of the world. Report this Post Replies: 0 \| Reply \| Permalink Oops! There appears to be a problem with your comment. Check to see if there's something you left out.
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