StockIceMan's Weekly Stock Pick
Week of
October 25th, 2004
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Opsware, Inc. |
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| Ticker Symbol: |
OPSW - Nasdaq - Software and
Programming |
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| Buy: |
5.25 to 5.50 |
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| Sell: |
8.00 + |
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Info: |
Opsware Inc. provides data
center automation software for enterprises,
government agencies and service providers
seeking to reduce costs and increase the quality
and security of data center operations. The
Company's software, called the Opsware System,
automates key server and software operations in
data centers, including provisioning, changing,
patching, reporting, configuring, scaling,
securing, recovering, auditing and reallocating
servers and business applications across
geographically disparate locations and
heterogeneous data center environments. The
Company released Opsware System 4.0 in September
2003. In addition, in December 2003, Opsware
announced the limited release of the Company's
first product that runs on the Linux platform,
Opsware System 4.0: Linux Edition. In February
2004, the Company announced the limited release
of its first product for the Japanese market,
Opsware System 4.0: Japanese Edition. |
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| Financial Info: |
For the six
months ended 7/04, revenues totalled $16
million, up from $6.8 million. Net income
totalled $1.2 million vs. a loss of $7 million |
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| Key Ratios: |
Current
Ratio: 3.25, Total Debt/Equity: 0.00, Trailing
P/E: N/A, Forward P/E: 78.14x, Price/Book:
8.12,
Price/Sales: 18.23. |
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| Share Info: |
There are 84.68
million shares outstanding with 57.00
million shares in the trading
float. Institutions own
approximately 50.19% of the shares outstanding.
There have been 2 insider purchases totaling
52,000 shares and 59 insiders sales totaling
948,000 shares in the last six months.
Real-Time SEC
Filings
As of 9/8/2004, there were 8.50 million shares short.
Net Institutional Buying: 8.379 million shares: prior to latest
quarter. |
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| Articles: |
OASIS Forms Technical
Committees to Advance Data Center Markup
Language -DCML |
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