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Monday, July 9, 2012

Stocks with Strong Financial Metrics (NYSE: ELX)

Shares of ELX fell by 2.47% or $-0.17/share to $6.72. NYSE is trading at a price to book ratio of 1.0. This indicates that the shares are relatively cheap compared to book value which means the market is pricing in going concern value. The PEG is 0.6 suggesting that the shares are trading at an excellent value relative to firm's growth rate. The price to sales ratio came in at 1.21. Thus, the company is not very expensive in terms of its sales. On average, 1173280 shares of ELX exchange hands on a given day and today's volume is recorded at 721735. These factors combined may make this company a potential takeover candidate. Value investors may have an eye on this one, especially if the stock gets cheaper.

Emulex Corporation (Emulex) is a provider of a range of network convergence solutions that connect servers, storage, and networks within the data center.