TAR HEEL STOCK WATCH.

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TAR HEEL STOCK WATCH P/E Recent 52-week Company ratio price range Expensive stocks (highest price-earnings ratios among North Carolina stocks) Haywood Bancshares 987.5 $19.75 $13.38-20.25 Cone Mills 500.0 5.00 3.81-7.19 Collins & Aikman 165.6 6.63 3.94-7.63 RF Micro Devices 130.1 47.16 3.66-54.88 Applied Analytical Industries 90.4 11.75 4.56-28.00 Cree Research 74.6 33.56 6.81-44.75 Coca-Cola Bottling 50.6 56.13 52.88-62.00 US LEC 37.3 26.88 9.00-33.56 Speedway Motorsports 35.8 43.00 14.75-47.50 CommScope 33.8 33.44 8.75-40.00 Cheap stocks (lowest price-earnings ratios among North Carolina stocks) Midway Airlines 3.7 $6.38 $6.13-17.50 Oakwood Homes 4.1 4.69 4.44-20.63 Alba-Waldensian 5.4 9.94 5.50-21.66 Personnel Group of America 6.1 6.25 4.94-18.56 Reeds Jewelers 6.1 3.38 2.63-5.75 Standard Commercial 6.6 3.97 3.75-9.25 Investors Title 6.9 14.00 14.00-24.50 Market America 7.4 5.31 2.81-10.00 Kewaunee Scientific 7.4 10.13 9.00-13.25 Burlington Industries 8.2 5.19 4.38-11.13 Ranking based on three-month price change July-September 3-month 1-year Recent 52-week Company change change price range Top 10 large-cap stocks RF Micro Devices 28.3% 970.2% $47.16 $3.66-54.88 Speedway Motorsports 8.7 128.6 43.00 14.75-47.50 CommScope 7.4 204.0 33.44 8.75-40.00 Duke Energy 3.5 (16.8) 55.88 51.94-71.00 Piedmont Natural Gas (3.3) (6.6) 31.00 28.63-36.63 Nucor (4.6) 19.9 46.69 37.50-61.81 Highwoods Properties (5.4) (4.5) 25.44 22.13-29.13 Jefferson-Pilot (5.8) 1.9 63.00 55.38-78.38 First Citizens Bancshares (6.1) (14.2) 76.81 68.00-97.50 United Dominion Industries (6.5) 28.7 23.25 16.13-27.63 Bottom 10 large-cap stocks Oakwood Homes (64.1)% (64.3)% $4.69 $4.44-20.63 Quintiles Transnational (54.3) (58.3) 18.81 16.88-56.88 Pharmaceutical Product Dev. (53.4)...