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ISTA, SWS, LNET, PRLS, COIN: In Focus Stocks With Good Valuations

In Focus Stocks With Good Valuations: ISTA, SWS, LNET, PRLS, COIN

ISTA Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:ISTA) has gained 0.01% to settle at $9.02 with a volume of 137,000 shares. For the past 52 weeks the stock has been trading between $2.01 and $9.32 with an average volume of 242,000 shares. Company has a market cap of $304 million and has 33.63 million outstanding common shares.

ISTA Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (ISTA) is a commercial stage, multi-specialty pharmaceutical company developing, marketing and selling its own products in the United States. It manufactures its products through third party contracts and ISTA in-licenses or acquires technology to add to its internal development efforts. The Company's products and product candidates focus to treat diseases of the eye and allergies, and include therapies for ocular inflammation and pain, glaucoma, dry eye, and ocular and nasal allergies. The Company has four products available for sale in the United States and Puerto Rico: Xibrom, Bepreve, Istalol and Vitrase. The Company's other products include XiDay, T-Pred, Bromfenac lower concentration, Ecabet Sodium and Bepotastine Nasal.

SWS Group, Inc. (NYSE:SWS) has lost 0.17% to settle at $5.93 with a volume of 199,000 shares. For the past 52 weeks the stock has been trading between $3.91 and $12.45 with an average volume of 400,000 shares. Company has a market cap of $193 million and has 32.55 million outstanding common shares.

SWS Group, Inc. (SWS) is a diversified financial services holding company focused on delivering a range of investment banking, commercial banking and related financial services to individual, corporate and institutional investors, broker/dealers, governmental entities and financial intermediaries. It is a full-service brokerage. Its principal brokerage subsidiary, Southwest Securities, Inc. (Southwest Securities), is a registered broker/dealer. Southwest Securities provides integrated trade execution, clearing and client account processing to over 170 financial service organizations, which includes correspondent broker/dealers and registered investment advisors in 31 states, Canada and Europe.

LodgeNet Interactive Corp. (NASDAQ:LNET) has gained 0.89% to settle at $3.40 with a volume of 125,000 shares. For the past 52 weeks the stock has been trading between $2.14 and $7.41 with an average volume of 417,000 shares. Company has a market cap of $85.5 million and has 25.15 million outstanding shares.

LodgeNet Interactive Corporation (LodgeNet) is a provider of interactive media and connectivity solutions to the hospitality industry in the United States, Canada and Mexico. The Company also provides interactive television solutions in international markets through local or regional licensees. As of December 31, 2009, it provided interactive media and connectivity solutions to approximately 1.9 million hotel rooms.

Peerless Systems Corp. (NASDAQ:PRLS) has lost 0.3% to settle at $3.31 with a volume of 1300 shares. For the past 52 weeks the stock has been trading between $2.52 and $3.50 with an average volume of 6353 shares. Company has a market cap of $11.11 million and has roughly 3.36 million outstanding shares.

Peerless Systems Corporation (Peerless) licenses and sells imaging and networking technologies and components to the digital document markets, which include original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) of color and monochrome printers and multifunction office products. The Company licenses software-based imaging and networking technology for controllers in embedded, attached and stand-alone digital document products, such as printers, copiers and multifunction products (MFPs) of OEMs. During the fiscal year ended January 31, 2010, the Company earned 85% revenue from licensing and 15% revenue from engineering services and maintenance.

Converted Organics Inc. (NASDAQ:COIN) has lost 4.75% to settle at $.31 a share with a volume of 886,000 shares. For the past 52 weeks the stock has been trading between $.30 a share and $1.27 a share with an average volume of 870,000 shares. Company has a market cap of $28.74 million and trades with 90.67 million outstanding common shares.

Converted Organics Inc. (Converted Organics) operates processing facilities that use food waste and other raw materials to manufacture all-natural fertilizer and soil amendment products combining nutritional and disease suppression characteristics. In addition to its sales in the agribusiness market, it sells and distributes its products in the turf management and retail markets. Operations at the Woodbridge facility processes solid waste and are producing both liquid and dry fertilizer and soil improvement products.

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Forward-Looking Statement: This press release includes "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the federal securities laws, commonly identified by such terms as "believes," "looking ahead," "anticipates," "estimates" and other terms with similar meaning. Although the Company believes that the assumptions upon which its forward-looking statements are based are reasonable, it can give no assurance that these assumptions will prove to be correct. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the Company's projections and expectations are disclosed in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. All forward-looking statements in this press release are expressly qualified by such cautionary statements and by reference to the underlying assumptions.

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