from: http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2010/02/19/this-weeks-5-smartest-stock-moves.aspx Life in a vacuum
iRobot's (Nasdaq: IRBT) Roomba is an overseas hit. The vacuuming automatons experienced a 31% spike in international sales during the holiday quarter, helping propel iRobot's top line 12% higher.
Spotty profitability has held iRobot's stock back in the past, but it had no problem staying in the black this time around. The maker of consumer and military robotics earned a quarterly profit of $0.20 a share, well ahead of Wall Street's $0.16 a share target.
Can it be? Are we finally at the point in iRobot's life stage where we don't have to send in a bomb-sniffing PackBot to handle its quarterly reports, fearing that they will blow up on us?
The smart tyrant writes his own story to ensure that it is favorable. The lazy will repeat lines from the book without fact checking.
