Jiesen tries to take over the world

[jiesen]

GPRO info

I will most likely be making a significant investment in GPRO next week... stay tuned for details (but please comment on this, I want to hear your opinions):

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=GPRO...=on&z=m&q=l&c=

Here are the latest analyst reports for GPRO in case anyone is interested...

Piper Jaffray:
http://www.filefactory.com/file/467325/

Bank of America:
http://www.filefactory.com/file/9f3256/

Merrill Lynch:
http://www.filefactory.com/file/382652/

Lehman Bros:
http://www.filefactory.com/file/4dce5a/

[jiesen]

never owned it myself either... and probably won't.

[riverbabe]

River and Jiesen,
Have either of you ever owned BEC? It's been between 50-60 all year and I see earnings growth is down 51%

-----------billyjoe

Billyjoe, BEC has never popped up on my screens, and I have never owned it. It seems to be growing by acquisitions, not organic. I usually stay away from stocks that have just issued more debt, even though they are using some for stock buyback. Looks like there has been some heavy accumulation in the last week, but overall I agree it has been in a trading range for a long time. I probably personally wouldn't buy it now, but it's worth keeping an eye on. River

[billyjoe]

River and Jiesen,
Have either of you ever owned BEC? It's been between 50-60 all year and I see earnings growth is down 51%

-----------billyjoe

[jiesen]

Everything was automated by then, with round-the-clock staff. No more on-call emergency cab rides in the middle of the night from home to the hospital. I moved on in 1974 to bigger and better things, except for a 3-year consulting contract in 1981-83 to supervise an immunology lab and bring the blood bank at a Cleveland hospital up to AABB standards. Apologies to Jiesen. Must get back to STOCKS! River

No worries, River! With discussion being relatively tame on my thread as of late (my fault for being busy), the OT posts are more than welcome here, too. Just so long as it doesn't head towards religion or politics, I'm happy!

[riverbabe]

River,
She's been a Med Tech since 1976 I think . We met in '81. She worked at Toledo Riverside for 6 years.

----------billyjoe

Everything was automated by then, with round-the-clock staff. No more on-call emergency cab rides in the middle of the night from home to the hospital. I moved on in 1974 to bigger and better things, except for a 3-year consulting contract in 1981-83 to supervise an immunology lab and bring the blood bank at a Cleveland hospital up to AABB standards. Apologies to Jiesen. Must get back to STOCKS! River

[billyjoe]

River,
She's been a Med Tech since 1976 I think . We met in '81. She worked at Toledo Riverside for 6 years.

----------billyjoe

[riverbabe]

Jiesen,
I don't know if you're familiar with Beckman Coulter. My wife's hospital lab just bought a piece of diagnostic equipment from them for 1 million dollars and B/C got the lab a bucket of KFC . I told her it should have been worth at least 2 buckets.

------------billyjoe

Oh my God, does that bring back memories! Way back, when I was a beginning med tech, our hematology lab had the first Coulter counter model to count RBC. Everything else we did by hand, including all the wet chemistry. There now, I've gone and really dated myself! Does your wife remember those good old days?

Park,
What do you mean by recs?

"recommendations" or kudos or "feeling the love"

[skiracer]

Mr. Jayy-yyy, I'm looking at HTI todayyyy-yyy. What do I have to do around here to get the recs.

Park,
What do you mean by recs?

[billyjoe]

I think old man Beckman invented the ph meter and lived to be almost 100.

--------billyjoe

[jiesen]

Jiesen,
I don't know if you're familiar with Beckman Coulter. My wife's hospital lab just bought a piece of diagnostic equipment from them for 1 million dollars and B/C got the lab a bucket of KFC . I told her it should have been worth at least 2 buckets.

------------billyjoe

Yeah, the cheap bastards! Of course I'm familiar with them... I've bought my share of pH meters and maybe a UV/Vis from them in my past equipment-intensive days.

Beckman also bought up the original SD biotech- Hybritech- after it fell apart. Here's an interesting (albeit old) article mentioning this, where almost all of my employers for the past 8 years are mentioned:

http://www.sandiegometro.com/1999/apr/biotech.html

[jiesen]

Mr. Jayy-yyy, I'm looking at HTI todayyyy-yyy. What do I have to do around here to get the recs.

Mad props to you, Park! I did notice your HTI up 10% or so in a day, and am sure kicking myself for wasting my time in pinkyland while a real pick like this one goes whizzing by yet again...

damn, when am I going to learn?

[billyjoe]

Jiesen,
I don't know if you're familiar with Beckman Coulter. My wife's hospital lab just bought a piece of diagnostic equipment from them for 1 million dollars and B/C got the lab a bucket of KFC . I told her it should have been worth at least 2 buckets.

------------billyjoe

Mr. Jayy-yyy, I'm looking at HTI todayyyy-yyy. What do I have to do around here to get the recs.