Biz: Rational stock drops 25 points in 3 wks...why?

Biz: Rational stock drops 25 points in 3 wks...why?

[David Weller]

Given the slide of the Dow lately, it should come as no surprise that
most stock would dip accordingly.  Oddly, Rational stock has plummeted
from 66 1/4 to 40 1/2 as of today.  This tumble happened in less than
four weeks.

The optimistic person would happily proclaim that it's a significant
improvement over the original IPO (under the RATL symbol) of 9 5/8 (or
something like that).  That being said, a 25 point drop in a few weeks
says something about a company's performance (investment-wise, I
learned long ago there's not a high degree of correlation between the
technical competency of a company and its performance with the other
stock ponies).

Anybody have some insight into the drop?  Browsing the investor
relations page at www.rational.com shows how wonderfully profitable
they are, but says nothing about the sudden drop.

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Re: Biz: Rational stock drops 25 points in 3 wks...why?

[dave]

David Weller wrote:
> 
> Given the slide of the Dow lately, it should come as no surprise that
> most stock would dip accordingly.  Oddly, Rational stock has plummeted
> from 66 1/4 to 40 1/2 as of today.  This tumble happened in less than
> four weeks.
> 
> The optimistic person would happily proclaim that it's a significant
> improvement over the original IPO (under the RATL symbol) of 9 5/8 (or
> something like that).  That being said, a 25 point drop in a few weeks
> says something about a company's performance (investment-wise, I
> learned long ago there's not a high degree of correlation between the
> technical competency of a company and its performance with the other
> stock ponies).
> 
> Anybody have some insight into the drop?  Browsing the investor
> relations page at www.rational.com shows how wonderfully profitable
> they are, but says nothing about the sudden drop.
> 
> --
>     Visit the Ada 95 Booch Components Homepage: www.ocsystems.com/booch
>            This is not your father's Ada -- lglwww.epfl.ch/Ada

	July 1st Barron's listed 6 insiders selling 306,797 shares, and
4 more recent filings to sell another 57,500.

	Guess they knew something, huh?

		Dave C.

Re: Biz: Rational stock drops 25 points in 3 wks...why?

[Peter Hermann]

David Weller (dweller@dfw.net) wrote:
: Anybody have some insight into the drop?  Browsing the investor

C++   ;-)

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Re: Biz: Rational stock drops 25 points in 3 wks...why?

[Theodore E. Dennison]

David Weller wrote:
> 
> Given the slide of the Dow lately, it should come as no surprise that
> most stock would dip accordingly.  Oddly, Rational stock has plummeted
> from 66 1/4 to 40 1/2 as of today.  This tumble happened in less than
> four weeks.
> 
> Anybody have some insight into the drop?  Browsing the investor
> relations page at www.rational.com shows how wonderfully profitable
> they are, but says nothing about the sudden drop.

Well, the CNNFn Headline currently reads:
   Dow, Nasdaq routed

that might have a little to do with it.
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Re: Biz: Rational stock drops 25 points in 3 wks...why?

[David Weller]

In article <31EBC268.41C67EA6@escmail.orl.mmc.com>,
Theodore E. Dennison <dennison@escmail.orl.mmc.com> wrote:
>> most stock would dip accordingly.  Oddly, Rational stock has plummeted
>> from 66 1/4 to 40 1/2 as of today.  This tumble happened in less than
>> four weeks.
>> 
>Well, the CNNFn Headline currently reads:
>   Dow, Nasdaq routed
>

Yeah.  I did a little homework/research after I posted...seems that
Rational is right in line with several others that have gone into
freefall recently.  It was pointed out (by a polite e-mail message)
that I was ignoring the trends of other technology companies in the
computer biz.  Rational stock appears to be sliding slightly worse
than the normal...gee, an aggressive person would consider this a good
time to buy :-)

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