Name: Peerless Systems Corp. (PRLS)
Web Site: http://www.peerless.com
Brief Description: Peerless Systems Corporation, together with its wholly owned subsidiary, Peerless Systems Imaging Products, Inc., provides imaging and networking technologies and components to the digital document markets. Peerless Systems provides software-based imaging and networking technology for controllers in embedded, attached, and stand-alone digital document products. It also integrates software into the printers, copiers, and multifunction products of original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). Its products are used in monochrome and color printers, copiers, fax machines, and scanners; as well as in multifunction products that perform a combination of these imaging functions. The company sells its products directly to OEMs and through other distribution channels, including distributors, value added resellers, and system integrators. Peerless Systems sells its products principally in the United States and Japan. It has strategic partnerships with Adobe Systems Incorporated, Novell, Inc., and IBM. The company was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in El Segundo, California.

03/30/06 - Stock pick update

ANALYST OPINION: We downgrade Peerless Systems Corp. (PRLS), to Neutral rating on lower than we expected guidance for FY07. PRLS's stock price gained 23.3% since we had assigned a Buy rating in November 25, 2005, providing two times higher investment return potential compared with RUSSELL 2000 INDEX. Contact the analyst...

11/25/05 - Initiated with Buy rating.