Like all fads, the craze for everything "nano" pushed up a lot of junk stocks and produced few real companies before investors moved on to the next new new thing. While
FEI Company (Nasdaq:
FEIC) has gotten attention for its nano credibility, investors would probably do well to see this more as an analytical technologies company like
Waters (NYSE:
WAT),
Thermo Fisher (NYSE:
TMO) or
Agilent (NYSE:
A) than a hot next-generation tech story.
While the company does still have a large footprint in the
cyclical electronics sector, the company is finding more and more applications for its technologies in sectors like natural resources and life sciences. Moreover, as the company continues to drive down the costs of its own technology, electron microscopy adoption could grow at an accelerating rate, as it has happened before with many other analytical technologies.
Read more here:
http://stocks.investopedia.com/stock-analysis/2012/Forget-Nano-FEI-Is-Real-FEIC-WAT-TMO-A0410.aspx
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