STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Good morning. I'm Steve Inskeep.</s>STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: A Rhode Island company called Nestor sells traffic enforcement systems. The company may well be a decent investment, but this week a blogger revealed its stock was soaring far beyond expectations. Nestor is traded under the stock market abbreviation NEST, and investors confused Nestor with a tech company called Nest, which is being sold to Google for billions. Mistaken stock purchases increased Nestor's value by 1,900 percent.</s>STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: It's MORNING EDITION.
A Rhode Island company called Nestor sells traffic enforcement systems and this week a blogger revealed its stock was soaring far beyond expectations. Nestor is traded under the stock market abbreviation NEST. Investors confused Nestor with a tech company called Nest, which is being sold to Google for billions of dollars.