From: leona@Happy-Man.com (Leona_Troese)
Subject: Solid Value #723 -- Irving Wolfe's Commentary of early December
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Organization: Happy Man Corp., Vashon Island, WA 98070-7399
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 18:40:20 GMT



Copyright 1992 Happy Man Corp., Vashon, WA 98070-7399, 1 206 463 9399
One hard copy may be made for individual, personal use only.

What follows is Irving Wolfe's column, Commentary, from the most
recent issue of _Solid Value._  

Permission to distribute it via Usenet is hereby granted.

Because Solid Value's heart is its tables of Best Buys and 
former-Buy followups, this free distribution of Irving Wolfe's 
Commentary should be interesting to some Usenet readers without 
making subscriptions less valuable to those who actually invest in 
stocks for profit.  

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Ticker	Ex.	Price	Sell@	?	%	c	Fin	?	Company	Last	Size	Div'd	Liq.	Sales	NCA	Book	Grow	Av.EPS	Earn	Cash	
Symb.		$.8ths	$.8ths		Left		Str		Name	Note	Ind.	%pri.	Ind.	%pri.	%pri.	%pri.	%	%pri.	%pri.	Cow


ACX	A	2.7	3.1	 	7	N 	2	 	Action Industries Inc.	209	 3	0.0	4	821	80	157	-5	00	8	6
AMH	A	7.0	10.4	 	49	N 	4	 	Amdahl Corporation	  -	 5	1.4	5	176	70	173	4	-2	10	5
ARDNA	O	29.0	43.0	 	48	N 	5	 	Arden Group Incorporated	  -	 3	0.0	3	648	23	127	4	4	10	5
BDRM	O	4.1	5.7	 	46	N 	7	 	Body Drama, Inc.	  -	 2	0.0	4	171	114	118	13	12	6	5
BNS	N	7.0	7.7	 	13	N 	2	 	Brown & Sharpe Mfg.	611	 3	0.0	4	471	74	220	-2	-14	1	5
CMY	N	10.2	34.2	 	234	 c	9	 	Community Psychiatric	715	 4	3.5	5	60	22	105	12	6	10	8
CYR	N	23.5	62.1	 	163	  	9	 	Cray Research Inc.	710	 5	0.0	6	70	53	119	16	13	12	7
DEC	N	33.0	44.1	 	34	Nc	6	 	Digital Equipment Corp.	709	 6	0.0	7	226	18	111	5	-39	6	5
DEVC	O	9.6	20.6	 	112	N 	4	 	Devcon International	705	 3	2.1	4	135	-7	167	14	1	13	6
ELDC	O	5.4	9.3	 	70	N 	4	 	Eldec Corporation	612	 3	0.0	4	328	66	208	5	3	13	5
GIBG	O	18.7	28.6	 	52	  	7	 	Gibson Greetings, Inc.	714	 4	2.1	5	123	38	95	13	10	10	8
IBM	N	67.7	242.0	 	257	 c	6	 	Int'l Business Machines	623	 7	7.1	8	127	-38	85	5	7	11	6
INGR	O	13.1	31.7	 	143	  	9	 	Intergraph Corp.	620	 5	0.0	5	87	67	121	17	5	8	7
JWAIA	O	15.4	19.1	 	23	N 	3	 	Johnson Worldwide Associat	  -	 4	0.0	5	221	28	97	8	6	10	9
LES	N	12.3	20.4	 	65	  	4	 	Leslie Fay Companies Inc.	714	 4	0.0	5	298	35	101	11	11	10	9
LOTS	O	20.5	44.6	 	117	 c	8	 	Lotus Development Corp.	716	 4	0.0	6	44	13	47	19	7	5	8
MCL	N	15.0	21.1	 	40	N 	9	 	Moore Corporation Ltd	  -	 5	5.9	6	164	41	108	4	5	8	8
NME	N	13.0	13.6	 	6	N 	3	 	Nat'l Medical Enterprises	  -	 5	3.7	6	136	-71	79	7	11	7	5
OGLE	O	25.0	29.2	 	17	N 	3	 	Oglebay Norton Company	  -	 3	3.2	3	231	-229	196	00	5	11	5
ORCO	O	14.5	23.7	 	63	N 	8	 	Optical Radiation Corp.	  -	 3	0.0	4	97	39	103	10	8	7	7
PCP	N	18.1	35.1	 	94	  	9	 	Precision Castparts Corp.	  -	 4	0.4	5	150	54	103	12	12	11	7
SFS	N	9.0	13.1	 	46	N 	5	 	Super Food Services Inc.	  -	 4	3.2	5	1562	41	125	7	10	9	8
SRB	A	13.2	15.7	 	20	N 	5	 	Scurry-Rainbow Oil Ltd.	  -	 3	2.9	4	35	-57	104	1	4	9	5
ST	N	20.3	25.0	 	23	N 	4	 	SPS Technologies Inc.	  -	 4	6.3	5	342	26	170	3	3	9	6
SYN	N	24.2	26.4	 	9	N 	9	 	Syntex Corporation	  -	 5	4.3	7	21	2	23	12	9	5	7
TPN	A	5.0	5.1	 	1	N 	2	 	Total Petroleum N Am Ld.	  -	 5	8.0	5	1845	-139	225	-4	-8	-2	5
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