22 July 2009

Jul 22, 2009 (M2 PRESSWIRE via COMTEX) -- BUYINS.NET / www.squeezetrigger.com is monitoring the performance of all stocks with earnings being released Tuesday, July 28th and determining how the stocks have performed after their last 12 quarterly, 6 quarterly and July earnings reports. StarTek (NYSE: SRT), Zix Corp (NASDAQ: ZIXI), Semiconductor Mfg (NYSE: SMI), Neurocrine Biosciences (NASDAQ: NBIX), Integrated Silicon Solution (NASDAQ: ISSI) and QuickLogic (NASDAQ: QUIK) are all expected to be lower after their earnings are released Tuesday. The movement of stock prices in the days and weeks leading to and following these earnings announcements may follow a predictable pattern. Most companies stock price histories show random or unpredictable movements around earnings dates. But some seem to repeat the same pattern quarter after quarter, year after year. The # of Reports in the table below shows how many previous quarterly reports comprise the indicator that predicts how a stock will act after its earnings are released. The specific technology used to make these predictions is available for a low monthly fee at http://www.squeezetrigger.com/services/strat/mh.php . The following stocks are expected to go lower after earnings are released Tuesday: Symbol Company # of Reports Quarter Release Time SRT StarTek, Inc. July earnings Q2 Before ZIXI Zix Corporation 12 quarters Q2 After SMI Semiconductor Mfg 12 quarters Q2 During NBIX Neurocrine Biosciences 12 quarters Q2 After ISSI Integrated Silicon Sol 12 quarters Q3 After QUIK QuickLogic Corp. 12 quarters Q2 After Earnings, or profits, drive stock prices. The market values a company based on its current and anticipated future ability to make money. The market takes the earnings pulse of a company four times per year when quarterly reports are issued. When this information is released it can often be a trend-changing or a trend confirming event. because the information is so vital to the market's perception of the vitality of that company.

This technology is designed to help the stock trader identify those companies that seem to have a consistent pattern of movement before or after the earnings release date, based on the history of earnings releases for that company. It combines a calendar of expected earnings releases with a history of past earnings releases in a way that lets you see if a pattern exists.

StarTek, Inc. (NYSE: SRT), together with its subsidiaries, provides business process outsourcing services to the communications industry in the United States, Canada, and the Philippines. The companyas service offerings include customer care, which includes management of customer acquisition, service activation, renewals, account inquiries, complaint resolutions, product information, and billing support; sales support that comprises cross-selling and up-selling its clientsa products, implement product promotion programs, secure and process additional customer orders, and handle inquiries related to product shipments and billing; and complex order processing services, which include order management and technical sales support for various communications services, such as wireline, wireless, data, and customer premise equipment. Its services also include accounts receivable management comprising billing, credit card support, and first party collections through its receivables management services; and technical support services by telephone, e-mail, facsimile, and the Internet. In addition, StarTek offers other industry-specific processes, such as technical support; phone number portability services, including automated and live agent interaction, facilitate pre-port validation, data collection, automatic processing of port-out/in requests, direct and automated interface with the service order activation platform, fallout management tool, and port request tracking and archiving services; and directory management. The company was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Denver, Colorado.

Zix Corporation (NASDAQ: ZIXI) provides Internet-based applications in a Software-as-a-Service model to connect, protect, and deliver information, enabling the use of the Internet for applications requiring security in the healthcare, finance services, insurance, and government sectors primarily in the United States. It operates in two segments, Email Encryption and e-Prescribing. The Email Encryption segment offers comprehensive secure messaging services, which allow an enterprise to use policy-driven rules to determine which emails should be sent securely to comply with regulations or corporate policy. This segment also provides a comprehensive solution that analyzes and encrypts email communications, as well as related advisory, installation, customization, and training services. The e-Prescribing segment offers PocketScript, an electronic prescribing service that allows physicians to use a handheld device to prescribe drugs and transmit the prescription electronically to pharmacies. This segment distributes its e-Prescribing solution directly to physicians and healthcare institutions. The company was formerly known as ZixIt Corporation and changed its name to Zix Corporation in 2002. Zix Corporation was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (NYSE: SMI), together with its subsidiaries, engages in the computer-aided design, manufacture, packaging, testing, and trade of integrated circuits. It provides wafer fabrication services for various devices that include logic technologies, such as logic, mixed signal, RF, and high voltage circuits; memory technologies comprising dynamic random access memory, static random access memory, flash, and electrically erasable programmable read-only memory; and specialty technologies consisting of liquid crystal on silicon and CMOS image sensor. The company also manufactures logic, mixed-signal and radio frequency, high voltage, memory, and specialty semiconductors, as well as manufactures and designs semiconductor masks. In addition, SMIC provides various services, including libraries and circuit design blocks, design support, mask-making, wafer probing, gold/solder bumping, redistribution layer manufacturing, assembly, and testing. The companyas semiconductors are used in computing, communications, consumer, and industrial applications, such as computers, mobile telephones, digital televisions, digital cameras, DVD players, and entertainment devices, as well as in consumer electronics devices, and automotive and industrial applications. It serves integrated device manufacturers, fabless semiconductor companies, and systems companies. The company has a strategic partnership agreement with Toppan Printing Co., Ltd. to manufacture color filters and micro-lenses for complementary metal oxide silicon image sensors; and strategic cooperation agreement with Datang Telecom Technology & Industry Holdings Co., Ltd. SMIC sells its products and services in the United States, Europe, Taiwan, Japan, and the Asia Pacific. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Shanghai, the Peopleas Republic of China.

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