Andrew Neff Continued Quotations

While we are very confident about the firm's underlying fundamentals ... Network Appliance's rich multiples require continued strong upside surprises and estimate increases, both of which are unlikely to happen near-term as the law of large numbers catches up with the company.

The stock's rich multiple requires continued strong upside surprises and estimate increases -- both of which are unlikely to happen near-term as the law of large numbers catches up with the company.

When we downgraded the PC stocks in September, we were concerned about signs in the weak consumer demand -- which has continued to deteriorate. Now we are seeing signs of this weakness spreading into small/medium corporate and of aggressive pricing in low-end servers. This weakness is bound to spread.