TAR HELL STOCK WATCH.

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TAR HELL STOCK WATCH Expensive stocks (highest price-earnings ratios among North Carolina stocks) P/E Recent 52-week Company Ratio Price range Cree 179.7 $105.13 $15.13-112.00 RF Micro Devices 146.6 80.63 15.47-95.00 Tangram Enterprise Solutions 130.4 9.13 0.88-18.50 South Street Financial 85.9 6.88 6.25-8.00 Coca-Cola Bottling 49.5 47.00 45.00-60.00 US LEC 46.5 36.25 12.88-39.50 CT Communications 36.8 53.00 35.88-70.00 Network Systems International 31.8 3.50 3.13-9.81 Blue Rhino 30.4 10.94 6.00-19.50 CommScope 30.1 39.44 16.75-46.38 Cheap stocks (lowest price-earnings ratios among North Carolina stocks) P/E Recent 52-week Company ratio price range Midway Airlines 3.9 $5.94 $5.88-17.50 Market America 5.7 4.75 3.63-10.00 Reeds Jewelers 5.7 3.13 2.63-4.38 Old Dominion Freight Line 6.9 11.88 8.13-15.00 Kewaunee Scientific 7.2 10.25 9.00-11.88 Sonic Automotive 7.3 8.13 7.63-17.38 B.F. Goodrich 7.4 25.19 21.00-45.69 Standard Commercial 7.6 3.50 2.75-7.88 Insteel Industries 7.6 8.38 5.38-9.88 Culp 8.2 6.13 5.13-11.06 Rankings based on three-month price change November-January 3-month 1-year Recent 52-week Company change change price range Top 10 large-cap stocks Cree 132.3% 383.3% $105.13 $15.13-112.00 RF Micro Devices 67.1 354.2 80.63 15.47-95.00 Quintiles Transnational 50.2 (48.1) 26.19 16.00-52.88 Oakwood Homes 40.6 (84.9) 2.81 1.19-19.50 Pharmaceutical Product Dev. 38.8 (56.5) 14.31 8.56-38.50 Martin Marietta Materials 9.2 (19.8) 42.13 35.25-68.13 Duke Energy 1.4 (3.2) 57.56 46.75-61.88 United Dominion Industries (1.5) 5.1 20.63 18.63-27.63 Nucor (4.2) 1.7 49.88 41.63-61.81 Carolina Power & Light (6.3) (19.3) 32.69 28.63-45.00 Bottom 10 large-cap stocks Speedway Motorsports (27.4)% 16.8% $31.25 $22.75-47.50 Wachovia (23.9) (26.3) 63.81 60.38-92.31 Bank of America (23.7)...