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[vicarz]

So I made a hasty decision this AM - since I overdid the tech sector during the boom years, why not overdo the health sector during a crisis?

75 shares at market open of about 26.85
PFE PFIZER INC - pe 18.01, cash = debt, at a low point was 40 now 27

60 shares at market open of about 31.68
MRK Merck A company in trouble or a discounted great medical group? PE 10.92, cash=debt, near low price

As for the rest, I'm still looking as I have too much in savings and should really invest more. I did some computations, and private investment does make sense. When all was said and done last year, I only paid tax of about 10% of my income. I've looked at fool.com a lot lately, and found that the gains from the long shots don't really blow away the more secure investments until you look way down the road based on accumulated momentum. So the really wild ones, who research investments for a living, nail about 20%. For every one that triples, another halves. I don't expect to beat the market! Is real estate less risky?

EDS ELECTRONIC DATA SYS, linked to Delphi who is in serious accounting trouble, just dropped, analysts loathe, cash about = debt, was $40-60 2000-2002 now 21, isn't this like investing in the movie "Office Space?"

MWY Midway? very risky, still living off of MK 8 or so, near high, but great consolidation and they made the pinball machine in my living room (Bally/Midway) barely solvent, cash almost 10x debt? 50% inside owners

EBAY probably overvalued, pathetic balance sheet, but down about 20% on unexpected earnings, no real competition but when will this fad end?

XMSR xm radio, who will win, them or sirius? Or become like Coke/Pepsi, and are the gains gone? debt double cash, no profit

VIAC biotech genetics & stem cell, cash > debt, 80% insider investment, getting sued! (false advertising!?) New listing, this is a very South Park investment opportunity. Some portions of their business draw profit

LOJN lojack - pe 22, low debt, car theft aint goin away, but competition? Huge growth in earnings, price near its high, analysts love it, only 10% insider own

TACT coinless slots and transactions, just took huge loss on 4th quarter earnings, "transaction based printers" expecting more quarters of losses, no debt!?, only 8% insider own, Check21 initiative pushes them for huge growth (sub check), domestic gaming expansion also would be a huge boon to them,

SNDA - Chinese on-line games, #1 today, cash is double debt, 75% insider, China #1 cell-phone holder, biased towards internal sources, impossible to sell software due to piracy,

SBUX - starbucks (still no pepsi to its coffee), valuations pathetic pe 52

FL - foot locker - pe only 17.69, cash>debt, ghetto aint about to stop buying shoes

ADBL audible books - risky, debt double cash, little income, low insider investment, who the fuck cares about listening to narrated books?

MEDI Medimmune very risky, flu mist, child asthma, G'burg location, pe 323.47! debt twice cash

MMM 3M COMPANY pe 23, cash = debt, near high after settlement announced