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Shares of Ciena Rank the Lowest in Terms of Forward Earnings Yield in the Communications Equipment Industry (CIEN, CALX, APKT, KVHI, SYMM)
[January 24, 2013]

Shares of Ciena Rank the Lowest in Terms of Forward Earnings Yield in the Communications Equipment Industry (CIEN, CALX, APKT, KVHI, SYMM)


Jan 24, 2013 (SmarTrend(R) News Watch via COMTEX) -- Below are the three companies in the Communications Equipment industry with the lowest forward earnings yields. Using projected earnings for the current fiscal year, the forward earnings yield is useful to compare a stock's return vs. owning a similar stock or other yield assets (e.g. bonds). Generally, the higher the earnings yield, the more undervalued the stock.Ciena ranks lowest with a forward earnings yield of 1.1%. Following is Calix with a forward earnings yield of 1.5%. Acme Packet ranks third lowest with a forward earnings yield of 1.9%.



KVH Industries follows with a forward earnings yield of 2.4%, and Symmetricom rounds out the bottom five with a forward earnings yield of 2.5%.

SmarTrend recommended that its subscribers protect gains by selling shares of Symmetricom on October 31st, 2012 by issuing a Downtrend alert when the shares were trading at $6.19. Since that call, shares of Symmetricom have fallen 7.9%. We are now looking for when a new Uptrend will commence and will alert SmarTrend subscribers in real time.


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