StockIceMan's Weekly Stock Pick
Week of
November 15, 2004
| Stock: |
Catalyst Semiconductor, Inc.. |
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| Ticker Symbol: |
CATS - Nasdaq - Semiconductors |
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| Buy: |
5.25 to 5.50 |
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| Sell: |
9.00 + |
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Info: |
Catalyst Semiconductor,
Inc. designs, develops and markets a line of
reprogrammable non-volatile memory products and
analog and mixed-signal products. It offers a
range of serial electrically erasable
programmable read only memory (EEPROM) products
compatible with the three industry standard bus
interface protocols: the inter-integrated
circuit, bus interface of Philips Electronics;
the microwire interface protocol of National
Semiconductor, and the serial peripheral
interface, bus protocol of Motorola. It also
offers flash memory in a small number of
densities. The Company's analog and mixed-signal
products include supervisory products with
EEPROM, supervisory products without memory,
digitally programmable potentiometers, white
light emitting diodes drivers, direct current
(DC) to DC converters and interface input/output
expanders. |
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| Financial Info: |
For the 13 weeks ended
8/1/04, revenues rose 21% to $16.7 million. Net
income totaled $2.2 million, up from $920
thousand. |
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| Key Ratios: |
Current
Ratio: 4.95, Total Debt/Equity: 0.00, Trailing
P/E: 10.09x, Forward P/E: 10.78x, Price/Book:
1.53, Price/Sales: 1.50. |
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| Share Info: |
There are 18.22
million shares outstanding with 17.50
million shares in the trading
float. Institutions own
approximately 22.91% of the shares outstanding.
There have been no insider purchases and 8
insider sales totaling 3.75 million shares in the last six months.
Real-Time SEC
Filings
As of 10/8/2004, there were 110,000 shares short.
Net Institutional Buying: 402,000 shares: prior to latest
quarter. |
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| Articles: |
Catalyst Semiconductor to
Present at the AeA Classic Financial Conference
on November 9-10 |
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