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Leggett & Platt Inc T.LEG


Primary Symbol: LEG

Leggett & Platt, Incorporated is a manufacturer that conceives, designs, and produces a range of engineered components and products found in many homes and automobiles. The Company’s segments include Bedding Products, Specialized Products and Furniture, Flooring & Textile Products. Bedding Products segment supplies a variety of components and machinery used by bedding manufacturers in the production and assembly of their finished products, as well as produces private label finished mattresses for bedding brands. Specialized Products segment supplies lumbar support systems, seat suspension systems, motors and actuators, and control cables used by automotive manufacturers. It also produces and distribute tubing and tube assemblies for the aerospace industry and engineered hydraulic cylinders used in the material-handling and construction industries. Furniture, Flooring & Textile Products segment supplies a range of components for residential and work furniture manufacturers.


NYSE:LEG - Post by User

Comment by nijinsky70on Dec 31, 2012 8:56am
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Post# 20783709

RE: Analysts Keep Recommending

RE: Analysts Keep Recommending

I've owned this stock off and on for the past two years.  Right now I'm off.  It never seems be able to gain any traction.  Many respected analysts have recommended this stock including Eric Nuttall of Sprott, whom I consider one of the very best analysts, though not a particularly good stock picker.  

 

The one major disturbing fact is the stock is heavily shorted.  Why?  No one knows.  Do these market scavengers have more in depth news about the company than the rest of us?  Perhaps, perhaps not.  They get burnt sometimes too, though not often enough to make us small retail longs happy. 

 

All I know is unless I see the number of shorts drastically reduced (right now about 21%!!!, no stock has more than that on the long list of stocks I follow), I would not touch LEG again if that number is not reduced to an acceptible level.  Otherwise it's just dead money carrying these many shorts around. 

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