BEA Systems Inc. (BEAS)

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    nyka
    Apr 01 04:45 PM
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    Contrarian Indicator: Analyst Buy Ratings [view article]
    Try "Low NUMBER of buy ratings," not low amount. Check Webster's Dictionary to learn how to differentiate amount from number. Reply
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    Healthy
    Mar 25 12:34 PM
    Contrarian Indicator: Analyst Buy Ratings [view article]
    This report is ridiculous. By the same methodology, they would have bought the losers on the way down, and at much higher prices than where they eventually bottommed out. Reply
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    jturano7423
    Mar 13 09:26 AM
    Jim Cramer's Mad Money Lightning Round Picks, 9/20/07 [view article]
    MARCH 13-NSTK:UPDATE: NO YEAR END EARNINGS REPORT, BUT IN THE MEAN TIME ONE GREAT ANNOUNCEMENT AFTER ANOTHER. JUST GREAT NEWS TO SOFTEN THE BLOW OF THE DELAYED EARNINGS REPORT. AND WITH ALL THIS GREAT NEWS IT WILL TAKE YEARS FOR THIS COMPANY TO RECOVER! YES, ONCE AGAIN 'HYPE' IS THERE LEADING DRUG! MANAGEMENT MUST BE THRILLED TO HAVE SO MANY SAVVY INVESTORS WHO STILL BELIEVE THEM AFTER ACCOMPLISHING 'ZERO' IN 24 YEARS! I THINK THEY HAVE INVENTED THE NASALLY STUPID PILLS FOR INVESTORS AND WE JUST DON'T KNOW IT YET! Reply
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    carolina
    critter
    Mar 06 09:56 AM
    Contrarian Indicator: Analyst Buy Ratings [view article]
    It's fun to daytrade with Etrade. It's also fun to watch Cramer go ballist and make crazy statements like the $2.00 lottery ticket. Etrade has a lot of loyal clients, me included, because of the great trading platform. And it's also fun to read about such assinine strategies like the one in your column. I wonder if you invest the same way you write. Reply
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    daffy
    Mar 06 07:47 AM
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    Contrarian Indicator: Analyst Buy Ratings [view article]
    To all you naysayers . . .

    If the pundits and analyst had their say about the direction of the economy and the media propaganda, T-rexes would be roaming the earth will-nilly and what humans that were left would be scampering around with limbs bleeding due to fear alone.

    Lighten up a bit, and you might make some money. This piece may be a far cry from the more positive recovery spins I would like to see coming out of the pundits and analsyts (has anyone ever noticed the presence of anal in analyst?). All I see is "the sky is falling, you are going to die". I am bored. At least this piece was humorous and gave me a break.

    I even bought ETFC at $3.14. Right when everyone was screaming sell. Oh well, I guess I made the wrong decision there. I don't think they sell $3.14 lottery tickets, do they?     Reply
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    redponydoc
    Mar 06 06:35 AM
    Contrarian Indicator: Analyst Buy Ratings [view article]
    ...I sold out of my position in ETRADE in late '07 at a loss, because all the experts told me to. On 1-7-08, the stock traded at $2.07, and everyone including Jim Cramer ("I'd rather have a $2 lottery ticket than a share of ETRADE"), the CNBC resident geniuses ("Run from this stock as fast as you can!") . If you had done the opposite of what they told you to do, and put every penny you could beg, borrow, or steal into ETRADE on that very day, you could have sold it roughly 6 weeks later at $5.25, a 254% profit.
    That is an annualized profit of 2,209%. I haven't seen any of the stocks Jim Cramer or the other experts recommend to their followers reap 2,200% annual gain for them. I suspect there were none.
    Point is, my limited experience in the market suggests to me that the contrarian approach is at least as good as following the analysts' advice. An even better would be to totally ignore them.     Reply
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    mosteele
    Mar 06 03:23 AM
    Contrarian Indicator: Analyst Buy Ratings [view article]
    This article is interesting. It may well work on the short term.

    But I find more interesting the reactions this article causes.


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    Winston
    Kotzan
    Mar 06 02:21 AM
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    Contrarian Indicator: Analyst Buy Ratings [view article]
    How creative... just when I thought people ran out of ideas to loose money faster. Reply
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    Bob B
    Mar 05 09:46 PM
    Contrarian Indicator: Analyst Buy Ratings [view article]
    In Las vegas I hold at 16, and in the market this year I hold my breath.
    When a stock drops 10% in a short period of time the analyists drop there rating.How smart is that,maybe now it's a buy.Just like vegas.     Reply
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    blah-blah
    Mar 05 08:27 PM
    Contrarian Indicator: Analyst Buy Ratings [view article]
    This has been common knowledge for years - if everyone likes the stock, who's left to buy. Great strategy. Reply
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    wallywonka
    Mar 05 07:34 PM
    Contrarian Indicator: Analyst Buy Ratings [view article]
    This is the most asinine report that I have heard to date considering the condition of the market. Do you think possibly that BUY ratings are still up on some of these stocks due to quality management, cash balances, earnings and other stupid little fundamentals? Like...everybody jump into KB Homes because the analysts don't have a buy rating on this stock! If you wait long till 2009, they may start selling homes again if they don't go bankrupt first. Where do you guys come up with this stuff? You are all loosing credibility very quickly!

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    Socialism
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    compete!
    Mar 05 04:51 PM
    Contrarian Indicator: Analyst Buy Ratings [view article]
    Geez. This is meaningless. Reasons for the analyst ratings are not taken into account. The most obvious reason why following this piece could blow up on you is that for stocks way up on the year, the reason for an analyst saying "sell" could be that they feel it is overbought! And on the other end, they could feel that for those way down on the year, they are a "buy" because they are oversold! C'mon...these "contrarian" charts are overly simplistic! Anyone who goes by these will get slaughtered! Reply
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    jcrash
    Mar 05 04:28 PM
    Contrarian Indicator: Analyst Buy Ratings [view article]
    Bah, you take the average of ALL of those on the bottom, and place it against the performance of AAPL over the next 12 to 24 months. It will be a stark contrast.

    Let's see
    Choicepoint has a P/E of 53.6
    BEAS is at P/E of 25 based on 2010 earnings!
    E*Trade? Toxic...High risk reward obviously.
    Circuit City? Please, no one goes there anymore.

    Or you can have AAPL with a P/E of 25, and $25 per share cash growing sales at a phenomenal rate with margins that are still increasing due to component oversupply. I don't own much, but I'd own my little piece well before any of those others.
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    DrMark27
    Mar 05 04:22 PM
    Contrarian Indicator: Analyst Buy Ratings [view article]
    I'd like to see the % buys vs. sells as of Jan 1, 2008. As the stocks fall (rise), upgrades (downgrades) due to valuation may result. This is a potential confounding variable. Reply
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    cachaca
    Mar 05 04:12 PM
    Contrarian Indicator: Analyst Buy Ratings [view article]
    hey... "wall street guy"...get a grip

    This is not a recommendation, just a small "science project".

    They made a thesis and backed it up with data.

    "SoRoNgO" had it right...do your homework.

    As a side note, Cramer likes to say that analyst ratings are the best contrarian indicator for him.
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