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Will Starbucks return to high-octane profitability under CEO Howard Schultz -- and should you buy the stock?
Brent Wilsey, president of Wilsey Asset Management, takes on the coffee chain -- and names two tech-oriented stocks he says are bargain buys.
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Ben Steverman, reporter at BusinessWeek, suggested that Starbucks [SBUX
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But Wilsey disagrees: "The stock is still trading too high... and the balance sheet is just not as good as it used to be," he said, pointing to a debt-to-equity ratio of 48 percent.
So what does the strategist like?
Recommendations
Wilsey says Seagate Technology [STX
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], down 30 percent from its 52-week high, is due for a turnaround. And he likes RadioShack [RSH
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Steverman says his journalistic research points to Nordstrom [JWN
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], as the upscale retailer has a young market and plenty of room for expansion -- and is trading cheaply.
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No disclosure information in re stock ownership was available at the time of publication.
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