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The Orange County Register, Calif., Picks and Pans Column.

Publication: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Date: Sunday, December 14 2003

By Susan Funk, The Orange County Register, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Dec. 14--Activity below covers recent ratings of Orange County companies. Not all analysts use the same terms, yet some (such as "outperform" and "overweight" for "buy," "equal weight" for "neutral," and "underperform" for "sell") can have the same meaning to investors.

-- CKE Restaurants Inc. (CKR), Anaheim, started Monday at "near-term outperform" and "long-term outperform" in new coverage by John Beisler, a

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