StockIceMan's Weekly Stock Pick
Week of
October 18th, 2004
| Stock: |
NetScout Systems, Inc. |
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| Ticker Symbol: |
NTCT - Nasdaq - Computer Networks |
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| Buy: |
5.50 to 5.75 |
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| Sell: |
9.00 + |
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Info: |
NetScout Systems, Inc.
designs, develops, manufactures, markets, sells
and supports a family of integrated products
that enable performance and optimization of
complex, high-speed networks, including the
ability to deliver critical business
applications and content to end users. It
manufactures and markets these products in an
integrated hardware and software solution that
has been used by enterprises, governmental
agencies and service providers worldwide.
NetScout develops, manufactures, sells and
supports network performance management
solutions under the nGenius brand. The nGenius
Performance Management System, based on its
common data model (CDM) technology, is a
solution consisting of integrated hardware and
software components that monitor, measure and
report on the network's ability to fulfill its
performance, cost and service-level objectives. |
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| Financial Info: |
For the three months ended
6/30/04, total revenues rose 29% to $20.1
million. Net income totaled $297 thousand vs. a
loss of $552 thousand |
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| Key Ratios: |
Current
Ratio: 3.53, Total Debt/Equity: 0.00, Trailing
P/E: 152.56x, Forward P/E: 33.06x, Price/Book:
1.43,
Price/Sales: 2.06. |
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| Share Info: |
There are 30.53
million shares outstanding with 19.80
million shares in the trading
float. Institutions own
approximately 95.00% of the shares outstanding.
There have been no insiders buying or selling shares in the last six months.
Real-Time SEC
Filings
As of 9/8/2004, there were 281,000 shares short.
Net Institutional Buying: 913,000 shares: prior to latest
quarter. |
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| Articles: |
NetScout Systems Reports
Second Quarter Financial Results For Fiscal 2005 |
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