Dan Veru Quotations

You know, you always learn more in a bear market about what the new leaders are going to be than you will in a bull market. And in the most recent declines, certain segments within technology have held up very well and have shown excellent relative strength. This means that, basically, these stocks are not being dumped on a wholesale basis - they're actually being accumulated.

We like Quantum. The company's got $350 a share in cash and no debt, and it's generating a lot of cash flow. Storage has gone through a long period of decline, but we're seeing tremendous new demand coming in for storage every day. We think that pricing is going to improve, and these are companies with huge revenue bases where a nominal tick-up in the margin structure leads to tremendous profitability. We've got them earning over $4 (a share) over the next two years; the stock is at $12 right now.

Here's a classic case of a company that's been completely ignored.

I would sell the stocks that have that kind of multinational exposure. It's just like trying to catch a knife in mid-air. We don't know how far down it's going to go.

What they're doing is very smart. They're consolidating the high-yield bond industry at a cyclical low, when business is not so good now. Coming out of that they'll be the dominant player in the space.

We bought some shares recently in a dot.com company that was absolutely annihilated after this recent rout, About.com ( BOUT : Research , Estimates ), which is the ninth-largest Web property of all Web properties. The stock dropped from 100 in late March, to a low of $21. This is a company with a real business model that had blowout first-quarter earnings. And they are actually going to turn a profit in 2001. Investors went from 'everything Internet is good', to the 'everything Internet is bad' mantra. So now you've got to do your homework and look at individual names and identify the business models that are valid. And I think this is one that can go back to its old high.

We're in this volatile trading range right now until we see what the Fed's going to do. A quarter-point rate increase is clearly built in (bond yields). You really want to see what further direction the Fed's going to give from that point -- whether this is the first of several rate hikes, which I think would be a negative for the market.

The outlook looks better as the market looks to the next six, nine months.

Everything used to be complex about Thermo. But they experienced every problem in the book before the restructuring -- nothing is going to bother them now.

Consumption is up considerably and that trend is not going to reverse itself. Higher oil prices are going to be with us for quite a while, and while I do think it will moderate from the current levels it is definitely going to have an impact, both on consumer spending and on the economy as a whole.