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

[dweller@dfw.net (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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