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David Taylor, MBA, CFA Shermag SMG-T TRADE Feb 02, 2005

A furniture manufacturer and at a 52 week low. Battling cheap imports and currency. This is the type of company that they look at. Talking to management in a couple of weeks to try and see what's going on.
$7.200

Stock price when the opinion was issued

household goods
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