If you have never paid much attention to NBTY before, pull up a long term chart and count the number of 50% retracements over the past 20 years - I think I counted seven. I have followed this stock for at least 15 of those years, and owned it once along the way. Throughout that run, I was always surprised that the company could never carve out a steady and stable growth trajectory.
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