Date updated:12-11-2007
Ticker: LUK
Yield 0.49%
Up 94.7% in last 12 months.
Market Cap: $10.8 Billion
This companies diversified operations include manufacturing, real estate development activities, medical product development, winery operations, residual banking and lending activities, oil and gas contract drilling, gaming entertainment, copper mining in Spain, timber/lumber, metals, communication.
The bulk of income is provided by US Real Estate and public debt and equity securities income. The stocks sold recently: WTM, LVLT, WNG, EMN, PRKR, UAUA.
LUK financial documents lay out its acquisition strategy: In identifying possible acquisitions, the Company tends to seek assets and companies that are out of favor or troubled and, as a result, are selling substantially below the values the Company believes to be present.
For example, the company purchased and is rebuilding The Hard Rock Biloxi after is was destroyed in Hurricane Katrina.
Visit Leucadia's website and read their honest and extermely descriptive annual reports/letter's to shareholders. www.leucadia.com
All statistic based off October 24, 2007.
Will Morrissett

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ACCL
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ALU
Alcatel Lucent - $3.83
- +1.06%
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ADR. Communications Provider. Yield 2.26%. MSN Money: Alcatel Lucent, formerly known as Alcatel, provides solutions that enable service providers, enterprises and governments worldwide, to deliver voice, data and video communication services to end users. It offers end-to-end solutions that enable communications services for residential, business and mobile customers. It has operations in more than 130 countries Alcatel-Lucent is organized around three business groups and four geographic regions. Down 25.9% since October 2006

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FEIC
Fei Company - $24.94
- -1.85%
- $24.95
Scientific Hardware MSN Money: FEI Company is a supplier of instruments for nanoscale imaging, analysis and prototyping to enable research, development and manufacturing in a range of industrial, academic and research institutional applications. The Company's products and systems include hardware and software for focused ion beam systems (FIBs), scanning electron microscopes (SEMs), transmission electron microscopes (TEMs) and DualBeam systems, which combine a FIB and SEM on a single platform. Up 38.9% since October 2006.

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IAAC
International Ass - $18.34
- -2.96%
- $18.35
Asset Management. Largest Holding. International financial service activities are divided into five functional areas: 1)international equities market-making, 2)international debt capital markets, 3)foreign exchange trading, 4)commodities trading and 5)asset management. Down 6.6% since October 2006. Up 12.3% in last 6 months.

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ZEUS
Olympic Steel - $25.81
- +1.02%
- $24.92
Bulk Metals. Yield 0.59% A middle-man for direct sale and distribution of large volumes of processed carbon, coated and stainless flat-rolled sheet, coil and plate steel products. The Company owns 16 processing and distribution facilities in the continental US. Down 0.3% since October 2006.

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SMMX
Symyx Technologie - $5.68
- +0.53%
- $5.56
Research Services. MSN Money: develops and applies high-throughput research technologies and research software for customers in the chemical, energy, life science, consumer product and other industries. The Company provides collaborative research services, electronic lab notebook and scientific decision-support software and instruments to integrate and automate laboratory experimentation. Down 57.1% since last October.

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VECO
Veeco Instruments - $23.72
- -2.10%
- $24.15
Semiconductor Equipment. MSN Money: Designs, manufactures, markets and services a line of equipment primarily used by manufacturers in the data storage, research and industrial, semiconductor, high-brightness light emitting diode (HB-LED) and wireless industries. Up 2.8% since last October.

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WINN
Winn-dixie Stores - $11.23
- -0.18%
- $11.25
Grocery Stores. New issue. Owns 520 stores in 5 Southern states and 78% stake in Bohemian grocer, Bahamas Supermarkets Limited. Down 37.5% in the last 3 months.
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