StockIceMan's Weekly Stock Pick
Week of
November 29, 2004
| Stock: |
Ascential Software, Inc.. |
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| Ticker Symbol: |
ASCL - Nasdaq - Software and
Programming |
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| Buy: |
13.50 to 14.00 |
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| Sell: |
19.00 + |
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Info: |
Ascential Software
Corporation is a supplier of enterprise
integration solutions to the Global 2000 and
other large organizations. The Company's
products for automated data profiling, data
quality management and cleansing, and data
transformation address the needs of
organizations that have invested in enterprise
applications, such as customer relationship
management (CRM), enterprise resource planning (ERP),
supply chain management (SCM), analytic
applications, transactional environments or data
stores, such as data warehouses and data marts.
Ascential combined the functionality of all of
its core integration services onto a single
enterprise data integration platform that
provides end-to-end metadata management, called
the Ascential Enterprise Integration Suite.
Ascential also offers a full range of
consulting, educational and support services to
assist its clients through all phases of a
project. |
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| Financial Info: |
For the nine months ended
09/30/04, revenue rose 60% to $193.7 million.
Net income totaled $5.9 million, vs. a loss of
$1.5 million. |
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| Key Ratios: |
Current
Ratio: 2.98, Total Debt/Equity: 0.002, Trailing
P/E: 37.10x, Forward P/E: 38.33x, Price/Book:
1.07, Price/Sales: 3.06. |
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| Share Info: |
There are 58.75
million shares outstanding with 57.00
million shares in the trading
float. Institutions own
approximately 70.86% of the shares outstanding.
There have been no insider purchases or sales in the last six months.
Real-Time SEC
Filings
As of 11/8/2004, there were 2.72 million shares short.
Net Institutional Buying: 1.679 million shares: prior to latest
quarter. |
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| Articles: |
Ascential Software
Corporation Financials |
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