Hold -- Price 9.83 on Oct. 7
by Ticonderoga Securities

[AU Optronics is a global manufacturer of thin-film-transistor liquid-crystal display panels, or TFT-LCD. We recently] highlighted our concerns regarding pricing starting to decline, September sales coming in muted, LCD-TV forecasts being cut by ... panel makers, and excess inventory. With further evidence that the LCD cycle is rolling over, we expect AUO to remain challenged,.. . Risks include consumer-spending trends on electronics and enterprise spending on information-technology products; finished-product and panel-inventory levels; capacity-expansion trends in the LCD panel industry; material costs and pricing trends; risks specific to Taiwan; panel-pricing trends. [EPS for "08 was 79 cents; "09E-EPS is minus-50-cents; "10E-EPS is positive 54 cents.] Market cap: $8.4 billion.

Leading Taiwan chip maker.
01/05/2009-- 8.05

0.53

cheap, 5 X trailing 3 dollars cash. Growth in China

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Growth.

zacks

P/E of 157, a PEG of 1.2, and a yield of 0.1%.

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this stock goes nowhere.

jim cramer's big mistake

Play on LCD technology. Thought XMas holidays would be a boom, but turned out to be a bust. Edging back up to break-even.