StockIceMan's Weekly Stock Pick
Week of
January 4th, 2004
| Stock: |
American
Software, Inc. |
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| Ticker Symbol: |
AMSWA - Nasdaq -
Software and Programming |
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| Buy: |
7.50 to 8.00 |
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| Sell: |
17.00 + |
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| Info: |
American
Software, Inc. develops, markets
and supports a portfolio of
software and services that
deliver enterprise management and
collaborative supply chain
solutions to the global
marketplace. The Collaborative
Supply Chain Management segment
consists of Logility, Inc., an 86%-owned
subsidiary that provides
collaborative supply chain
solutions to streamline and
optimize the production,
distribution and management of
products between trading partners.
The Enterprise Resource Planning
(ERP) segment consists of
American Software ERP, which
provides purchasing and materials
management, customer order
processing, financial, e-commerce,
Flow Manufacturing and
traditional manufacturing
solutions, as well as New
Generation Computing, which
provides industry-specific
business software to both
retailers and manufacturers in
the apparel and sewn products
industry. The Information
Technology (IT) Consulting
segment consists of The Proven
Method, Inc., an IT staffing and
consulting services firm. |
| Financial
Info: |
For the
six months ended 10/31/03,
revenues fell 9% to $26.6 million.
Net income from continuing
operations rose 35% to $3.4
million. |
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| Key Ratios: |
Current
Ratio: 4.76; Total Debt/Equity: 0.00,
P/E: N/A, Price/Book: 2.17, Price/Sales:
2.84 |
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| Share Info: |
There are 22.46
million shares outstanding with
18.60 million shares in the
trading float. Institutions own
approximately 39.05 % of the
shares outstanding. There has
been 22 insider sales
transactions totaling 314,000
shares in the last six months.
As of 12/8/2003, there were 8,000
shares short.
Net Institutional Buying: 1.038
million shares: prior to latest
quarter. |
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| Articles: |
AMERICAN SOFTWARE
INC Files SEC form 10-Q,
Quarterly Report |
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