DOLLARS & SENSE : COMPANY SPOTLIGHT.Name: Amwest Insurance Group. HQ: 5230 Las Virgenes Road, Calabasas CA 91302. Business: Insurance holding company that underwrites property and casualty insurance. Amwest competes with larger players such as Allstate, Farmers Insurance and others. Annual revenue: $117 million, up 14.7 percent from 1997. Annual income: $5.6 million, up 9.6 percent from 1997. Ticker symbol Ticker Symbol An arrangement of characters (usually letters) representing a particular security listed on an exchange or otherwise traded publicly. When a company issues securities to the public marketplace, it selects an available ticker symbol for its securities which investors : AMW AMW America's Most Wanted (TV show) AMW Air Mobility Wing AMW Amphibious Warfare AMW Ask Me Why (Beatles song) AMW Angewandte Medienwissenschaft (German: Applied Media Studies) . Friday close: XXX Web site: www.amwest.com. Company contact: Peter Tanner The code name for the Xeon version of the Pentium III chip. See Xeon. , operations manager See datacenter manager. , (818) 871-2000. INVESTOR SPOTLIGHT Name: Bob Giller Residence: Northridge Occupation: Retired truck driver Age: 65 How he got started: Giller started investing 15 years ago after a broker friend got him interested in the stock market as a way to make some money. His strategy is to pick companies with good track records, with healthy earnings and fans among its analysts. If a stock's volume is high and the price is going up, he'll take that as a sign it might be a good investment because something is going on to make the price jump. He dabbles in Internet stocks Internet stock The equity security of a company engaged primarily in a business associated with the Internet. Also called dot-com. , but limits his exposure to them because of risk. Recently, he bought Hasbro because the toy company has the rights to make ``Star Wars'' merchandise. Best stock pick: Best Buy. He bought it for $51 a share and sold it at $96. Worst stock pick: Nature's Bounty bounty, payment made by a government bounty, amount paid by a government for the achievement of certain economic or other goals. It often takes the form of a premium paid for the increased production or export of certain goods. . He bought it for a split-adjusted price of $23 a share. It closed at $5.875 on Friday. Investment philosophy: ``Buy stocks at the top of their industry. That's the way to do it and then you'll make money.'' CAPTION(S): Photo PHOTO (Color) Bob Giller |
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