	paint company has metex mtx stake may buy more metropolitan consolidated industries inc a new york paint company said it has uired shares of metex corp or pct of the total and left open the possibility that it might uire more through a merger in a filing with the securities and exchange commission metropolitan said it bought the metex stock as an investment it also said it may buy additional shares or sell some or all of its current stake if it buys more shares metropolitan said it would consider doing so in the open market in private deals or through an exchange offer tender offer or merger metropolitan said it may uire an option on or may buy some or all of the metex shares owned by william hack a metex director who together with this wife holds of the company s common shares or pct of the total metropolitan said it already has an option to buy another metex common shares at dlrs each the option is not exercisable until april it said if metropolitan were to exercise the option and uire all of hack s stake it would have metex common shares or pct of the total metropolitan s sec filing was made as a shareholder group with hack metropolitan which said it spent mln dlrs to uire its metex stake listed its recent stock purchases as common shares on march at dlrs each and shares on march at dlrs reuter 
