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You are better off buying semiconductor companies since they are wash out and their backlog is building, a turn is coming in that area in 2nd half, expect people to begin driving the prices of those stocks up. Now, for asys, the solar industry depends too much of govt that is alway a problem, what asys should be looking into is smaller type panels that can be used for heating purposes. Basically try to develope some creative uses for the technology for instance - how about building little solar devices that can keep palm trees heated in the northeast by keeping the soil warm - sound crazy - but if it worked how many people would go out and buy a palm tree in the northeast . i'm sure htere's all sort of small solar situations that a company could create. Keeping sheds heated in the winter, ice skating areas, highway signs, roads, etc yet the solar industry sits on their fanny and watch china mass produce cheap solar panels for nothing but big projects - There must be a thousand ways to make money in solar using the sun. Create easy to install, maintence free solar packages for the everyday homowner and then move it forward to roads, bridges, lights,water, etc.

First, the insider buying. i don't think you are buying if good things aren't happening at the company. 2nd, as far as a takeover - not happening - you don't do all the hard work for the past eight years, then sell it for peanuts. This is the type of stock that flys to the stratosphere with a few good earnings reports in a field that is getting ready to explode. think fiber optics back in 2000. All those stocks flew, so a company like IKNX is getting ready to take off, just need a little catalyst, whether thats earnings, contracts, new products, whatever. Well see how this plays out, but Mr Nerges buying sure confirms that the guy knows a good company when he sees one. he was buying back years ago when people thought "what the hell is this guy doing" but he knew exactly what he was doing. The guy is dam patient too and now his payday looks like its slowly coming to fruition.

The sad part of the share increase didn't come from stock splits but issued shares. i think I figure it out somewhere that over the last 15 years they've issued anywhere from 4 to 8 million shares (that figure might be high). based on management issueing themselves shares - so the shareholder is once again left holding the bag as management dilutes shareholder value. Also, if you think of all the cost cutting these guys have done over the years to the american workforce you would think with lower labor cost they would be earning globs of money - again not happening. So this grand idea moving operations overseas the shareholde has never seen the benefits - and maybe it has something to do with all the shares that they issue to themselves at the expense of the shareholder. They should have sold the semiconductor business years ago when I mentioned it and got top dollar and then used the proceeds to pludge into home land security and reinvent the company with higher margiin products, but they just continued on their merry way doing the same old, same old.

With all that said, it does appear that the stock is at the bottom of ts cycle and I wouldn't be surprise to see it get a little love here and move up nicely as long as the market doesn't fall out of bed, which at some point down the road its going to happen. but we all know if cohu does get some love down here, the insiders will be finger on the trigger to sell their shares.

Stillwater we go way back. i forget what other stocks we seem to hang around

I hate to reply to my own emails but fastpencil looks like a nice litle acquisition and maybe there's something here to build on. Courier gives the self publishing industry now a trusted name for those people who want to seldpublish. its the wild west out there and it will be interesting to see how this acquistion adds to the bottom line

The left loves a new world order where eveybody is a robot for the good of the collective. All you need to do is look at the most corrupt institution in the world call the UNited Nation, which the socialist worship.