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TechStockProspector.com
June 9, 2011

12 Tech Leveraged Buyout Candidates

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Tech-Stock Prospector is now available in the Amazon.com Kindle Store in the Business & Investing magazine section. Here s the Kindle link: http://www.amzn.com/B004T6Z0ME -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Deutsche Bank puts Symantec (SYMC, $18.73) on the list of prime leveraged buyout (LBO) candidates in the tech sector. The brokerage firm says private equity is sitting on more than $1.5 trillion of purchasing power to drive leveraged buyouts. The DB chief U.S. equity strategist says conditions are supportive for an upward cycle in LBOs as there are plenty of companies that have strong cash flow levels to fund debt repayments. 12 Tech LBO Candidates Company CA (CA) Fiserve (FISV) JDA Software (JDAS) KLA-Tencor (KLAC) Lexmark Int l (LXK) Micron Tech (MU) Oplink Commun. (OPLK) Progress Software (PRGS) Symantec (SYMC) Synopsys (SNPS) Tessera Tech. (TSRA) Western Digital (WDC) Source: Deutsche Bank

Sector Software Payment processing Software Semi Imaging Semi Components Software Software Software Components Hard drives

Recent Price $22.06 63.50 31.48 41.10 27.30 8.60 17.35 23.15 18.87 25.95 16.16 33.86

Recent Market Cap ($billions) $11.1 9.1 1.3 6.9 2.1 8.5 0.358 1.5 14.2 3.8 0.826 7.8

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