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

[dave@eclipse.net]

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.
> 
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	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.