From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f7ed3,a9caefb66ee5f55d X-Google-Attributes: gidf7ed3,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,a9caefb66ee5f55d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dave@eclipse.net Subject: Re: Biz: Rational stock drops 25 points in 3 wks...why? Date: 1996/07/16 Message-ID: <31EC3F9E.5F53@eclipse.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 168584385 references: <4sg70o$ema@dfw.dfw.net> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,misc.invest.stocks x-mailer: Mozilla 3.0b5a (Win95; I) Date: 1996-07-16T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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.