The shares have reacted to an outlook that was more cautious than anticipated.

Investors are becoming cautious after shares have performed so well.

While we remain cautious about the implications of a brief pause in the current 10-year expansion of the U.S. economy, we believe that Cisco has never been better positioned to help our customers solve their two most important business issues: Increasing productivity and creating new sources of revenue,

We see Vail shares as a value opportunity in light of a solid outlook for the 2005/2006 ski season and real-estate sales that should break records in terms of price per square foot.

Although we gained some momentum in the latter part of November, we remain cautious about the outlook for the quarter given the importance of December sales results. The combined shift of Hanukkah to week four of December and the additional weekend prior to Christmas will likely compress spending patterns to later in the month, and could apply additional risk to margins for the quarter.

We have had a cautious stance on [the PC group] since September, but we are lowering our rating on Compaq ... for a different reason: its turnaround is faltering, despite the low valuation on price/sales.