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Al Toral Recommends the Following Stocks: Hotels.com, Webex, EBAY, Expedia, and Taro Pharmaceuticals.


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CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 3, 2003

Your investments can still appreciate by +20% to +30% in this difficult market! Al Toral has already done it, and will show you how to do the same with an optimistic op·ti·mist  
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 market opinion and several fundamentally-sound stock recommendations. Get his takes on Hotels.com (NASDAQ NASDAQ
 in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations

U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on
:ROOM), Webex Communications (NASDAQ:WEBX), EBAY (NASDAQ:EBAY), Expedia (NASDAQ:EXPE), and Taro Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:TARO). Click here for the full story exclusively on Zacks.com: http://featuredexpert2bw.zacks.com/

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Hotels.com 'A' (NASDAQ:ROOM) is a company that has grown dramatically these past two years in spite of in opposition to all efforts of; in defiance or contempt of; notwithstanding.

See also: Spite
 the economy, the threat of more terrorism and predictions of a decrease in travel. Hotels.com has found a niche by offering discount hotel rooms over the Internet Internet

Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the
. Year 2003 revenues and earnings are expected to show even greater growth since the first-quarter financial reports came in with revenues for the quarter at $277 million and earnings at 32 cents a share.

Webex Communications (NASDAQ:WEBX) offers communication services for businesses to conduct business with video, voice and data even in the most remote places. Revenues have grown impressively from $2.6 million in 1999 to more than $139 million in 2002 to an expected $190 million in 2003, with earnings keeping pace, growing from a loss of 83 cents a share in 1999 to a profit of 49 cents a share in 2003.

Aggressive Lion

EBAY (NASDAQ:EBAY): The company's users can now pay for most of their purchases with airline miles and hotel points that they have amassed. It's another smart way for the online auctioneer AUCTIONEER, contracts, commerce. A person authorized by law to sell the goods of others at public sale.
     2. He is the agent of both parties, the seller and the buyer. 2 Taunt. 38, 209 4 Greenl. R. 1; Chit. Contr. 208.
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 to expand its 31 million-strong active user base.

Expedia (NASDAQ:EXPE): For the three months ended March 31, 2003, revenues rose 71% to $198.8 million; net income totaled $26.9 million, up from $6.6 million.

Taro Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:TARO): For the three months ended March 31, 2003, sales rose 55% to $69 million. Net income rose 42% to $14 million.

Learn more about the above-mentioned recommendations and discover all of Al Toral's positions in the Aggressive Lion portfolio by clicking: http://featuredexpert3bw.zacks.com/

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