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Non-Tech : KIDE a good play to capitalize on Pokemon craze

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To: 2MAR$ who wrote (475)10/10/1999 2:21:00 PM
From: 2MAR$   of 1239
 
From front page of Investor's Business Daily:

Saturday, 9 Oct 1999 at 2:34 PM EDT
Post # of 2446


Front page of Monday's IBD:

INVESTOR'S CORNER

High P/E Ratios Often Deliver Best Value

By David Saito-Chung
Investor's Business Daily

In the world of pro baseball, you need to pay higher salaries to get the players who produce outstanding numbers on the mound or at the plate. The stock market is no different.

A stock's price-to-earnings ratio, or current share price divided by total earnings per share over the past four quarters, is one way to measure how much you're paying for a stock. If you bought a stock with a P/E of 20, it means you're forking over $20 a share for a dollar's worth of earnings.

Does that sound pricey? Some say yes. More investors would agree and avoid buying a stock if its P/E was, say, 30. So where do you draw the line?

Don't. Limiting your buys to low P/E stocks may prevent you from owning the very best goods on the market. That's because high-growth stocks have historically shown higher P/Es than the rest of the market before they made their huge price moves. Truth is, you usually have to pay a premium for the best winners during a bull market.

... A high P/E on a stock that is just breaking out may end up looking minuscule several months later. Take 4Kids Entertainment, which licenses the marketing and merchandising rights of the red-hot Pokemon characters. When the stock cleared a 16-week consolida­tion on July 7, it sported a P/E of 33. Ten weeks later, its P/E was around, 86 as the stock jumped 280%.

...The P/E ratio can be used to roughly gauge how much a winning growth stock could theoretically rise in the future. Just multiply the stock's average P/E over the past quarter by its earnings-per-share estimate for the next 12 months.

Say a great stock trading near 60 has a stable P/E of 40. The company is forecast to post earnings of $3 a share in 2000. The stock could hit 120 within 15 months, assuming the earnings materia­lize and the market maintains its current multiple. This gives you a sense of how far the stock could run. And letting your winners run is the path to big profits.

*KIDE in top 5 on Bar Charts Nasdaq Alpha 100

www2.barchart.com

***and we do know what huge profits KIDE will post in the 4th Qtr!
this is going to be one fantastic run, and with a PE of 85 we are looking for a double from here!

:-)

2MAR$


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