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STEC INC (NASD)
STEC 14.70 N/A (N/A%) Vol.  0 N/A ET

Day Low - High N/A - N/A
52wk Low - High 4.39 - 42.50
Avg Volume 4,326,034
Industry SEMI-MEMORY
Market Cap 740.39 M
Div - Yield 0.00 - 0.00
PE (forward) 7.96
PEG Ratio .37
Current Year Est. 1.85
EPS Last Year 1.06
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# 2Strong Sell50.23%
# 3Hold14%
# 4Sell3.97%
# 5Hold1.85%
S&P50012.22%
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SANDISK CORP SNDK PREMIUM
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BROKERAGE RECOMMENDATIONS
Current ABR 2.07
ABR (Last Week) 2.07
# of Recs in ABR 14
Average Target Price 29.55
Industry Rank by ABR 65 out of 217
Rank in Industry 2 out of 3
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ZACKS COMMENTARY FOR STEC
Zacks Equity Research: Report for STEC
Jan 31, 2010
Zacks Blog: Company News for December 30, 2009
Dec 30, 2009
Zacks Blog: Company News for December 29, 2009
Dec 29, 2009
Zacks Blog: The Audacity!
Aug 26, 2009
Zacks #1 Rank Top Performers: Top Performer for Mon: STEC (STEC)
Aug 10, 2009
Zacks Blog: Decisions, Decisions
Jul 31, 2009
Know your Options: The Long Shot
Jul 30, 2009
Zacks #1 Rank Top Performers: Top Performer for Thurs: STEC (STEC)
Jul 16, 2009
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NEWS
STEC: The Trend Continues Lower (STEC)
Feb 05, 2010
STEC to Webcast Conference Call Discussing Fourth Quarter and Full-Year 2009 Results
Feb 04, 2010
SmarTrend Detects Continued Buying Pressure in Shares of STEC (STEC)
Jan 19, 2010
STEC to Present at The 12th Annual Needham Growth Stock Conference
Jan 11, 2010
Uptrend Spotted in Shares of STEC (STEC)
Jan 11, 2010
Thursday Midday Sector Laggards: Data Storage Devices, Radio Broadcasting Stocks
Jan 07, 2010
Top Takes From RealMoney - TheStreet.com
Jan 05, 2010
SmarTrend's Trend Spotter See Continued Upward Momentum on Shares of STEC (STEC)
Jan 04, 2010
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EARNINGS ESTIMATES
  This Quarter
12/2009
Next Quarter
03/2010
This Year
12/2009
Next Year
12/2010
Average Estimate 0.50 0.35 1.54 1.85
Number of Estimates 8 8 9 9
Low Estimates 0.48 0.30 1.48 1.45
High Estimate 0.51 0.41 1.58 2.06
Year Ago EPS 0.05 0.12 0.31 1.54
EPS Growth 890.00% 189.58% 395.70% 20.39%

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COMPANY DESCRIPTION
Simple Technology is a technology solutions provider offering products based on dynamic random access memory, or DRAM, static random access memory, or SRAM, and Flash memory technologies. The company designs, manufactures and markets a comprehensive line of custom and standard memory and storage products, as well as connectivity products that connect memory cards and hard drive upgrade kits to PCs. These products are used in high performance computing, networking and communications, consumer electronics and industrial applications.

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FINANCIALS
EPS TTM 1.06
Sales 227.45
Net Income 46.65
Price/Earnings 13.9
Price/Book 2.91
Price/Cash Flow 29.71
Price/Sales 2.43


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